Two months ago, Ashley V. Routson (Drink with the Wench) and I departed on a journey so brilliant I am amazed no one had done it before. Before I go into detail about Project Y-ine, first a quick rewind: A-read more-
Some people like to read on the beach. But for me, it’s right now—when the weather turns just a little chilly—that I refresh the stack of books I want to read. Curling under a blanket with a good book on-read more-
In the land of the free and the home of the brave, is preference for a bottle of wine based on anything but our free will? Though we may resist thoughts of our own individual gullibility, and no matter how-read more-
Four and ½ years after Granholm vs. Heald, the Supreme Court ruling that was supposed to create wine shipping liberty for all, wine shipping is still a tangled mess requiring a consumer movement to gently remind those that we put-read more-
There is little doubt that the Australian winegrower has had a tough time of it lately. If it’s not climate change playing havoc with the ripening cycles and rain fall averages, it’s the strength of the Aussie dollar relative to-read more-
There has been much ado in the blogosphere, of late, in response to the Federal Trade Commission's press release announcing its Final Guidelines Governing Endorsements, Testimonials. The press release, the one document most bloggers have seen, seems to indicate that-read more-
To age or not to age? With wine, the question is hardly simple—the complications are practically countless, and the risk/reward quotient naturally intensifies over time. Personal taste, of course, is akey to determining if one should even be holding wines for the-read more-
Welcome to my state, New Jersey, home to crowded highways (with countless exits), billowing smokestacks and a treasure trove of jokes (and truisms) illustrating a certain incivility (sarcasm if you will). Now allow me to introduce you to another side-read more-