By Gus Clemens
Those of us who prefer wine imagine we are superior to people who enjoy spirits or beer.
It does not reflect well on us, but it has been true since Greeks spread wine culture seven millennia ago. The disposition to be obnoxious about our chosen libation is part of our cultural DNA. Continue reading “Avoiding Wine Embarrassment”
Labor Day falls this year on the first day of September. It can’t get any earlier, which means it won’t be fall for three weeks and we will experience the longest, most summery Labor Day possible. Continue reading “Labor Day 2014”
Pantheonic wine authorities-Robert Parker, Wine Spectator, Jancis Robinson, Stephen Tanzer, et al – sometimes pontificate a wine “will deliver greatest pleasure after 10-to-20 years in bottle.” Continue reading “Bottle Age”
Whatever you may think of them, wine scores helped make U.S. the world’s top wine consuming country. Continue reading “Wine Numbers”
We already know, thanks to human nature, the internet can be wonderful, the greatest communications tool since Gutenberg played around with type. It also can be a savagely cruel and ruthlessly greedy place. Continue reading “Internet Extortion”