Ode to Wine Pablo Neruda Day-colored wine,night-colored wine,wine with purple feetor wine with topaz blood,wine,starry childof earth,wine, smoothas a golden sword,softas lascivious velvet,wine, spiral-seashelledand full of wonder,amorous,marine;never has one goblet contained you,one song, one man,you are choral, gregarious,at the least, you must be shared.At timesyou feed onmortalmemories;your wave carries usfrom tomb to tomb,stonecutter of icy sepulchers,and we weeptransitory tears;yourgloriousspring dressis [...]
The Good I love seeing multiple approaches to the same issue. This week there were two great posts about the same general topic. One of them was possibly the funniest post I’ve read this year, and the other was a really well thought out exploration of the same topic. Not that it matters, since nobody reads my posts but other [...]
I just seem to be hitting all around these Twitter tasting events that have been going on. A couple of weeks ago, I managed to miss the #CaliCabs tasting, and now I've gone and prematurely popped the cork (hmm, seems like an unfortunate choice of words, but I'll let it run anyway) on the perfect wine to use for the [...]
Just wanted to share a post with you guys that I found interesting. Jason Kotecki has a post out called Why You Might NOT Want to Be Like Gary Vee on the Dumb Little Man site. Many of us winos have followed Gary Vaynerchuk's Wine Library TV blog, and possibly his other ventures, and are in awe of what Gary [...]
Some of you might remember the post that I did before the Superbowl. I had this great plan to cook up some shrimp and pair them with a Riesling that I had at the house. Well, some extenuating circumstances caused me to not be able to carry out my plan, so I reserved the shrimp adventure for the Valentine's Day [...]
Russ Kane has a cool post up on his VintageTexas blog about the 2008 Landon Tempranillo wine that he tasted at the Texas Wine and Grape Growers Association (TWGGA) Meeting in Richardson, Texas this weekend. This wine is made from Tempranillo grapes grown by my friends at Bingham Family Vineyards. There is a cool video in Russ's post that was [...]
The irony of the fact that I drink wine pretty much every day, but chose to have a beer night on Drink Wine Day (is that really irony, or just Alanis Morisette irony?), is not lost on me. It's probably just my punk rock roots showing themselves again. It's my middle finger to the establishment. It's me yelling out, "You [...]
The Good This was a good week for finding funny wine items around the web. I was introduced or discovered a couple of items that actually made me laugh out loud. First, an item that Josh Wade, @nectarwine on Twitter, tweeted earlier this week. Before you watch this video, I have to say that Vinotology always encourages responsible drinking, so [...]
Well, there's one brewing over at Drink Nectar right now. The people are speaking, and it sounds like the people are fed up. Josh Wade, who is the Spokane wine guru behind Drink Nectar, has some outstanding points that I think that every wine drinker can relate with. Here's a snippet – Put yourself in the seat of an average [...]
Sometimes it's easy to overlook the things that are too familiar. As a wine drinker, I sometimes get so involved in looking to other regions for good wines, that I forget about the four wineries that are less than 15 minutes from my own house. I have to be honest; I have rarely bought Llano Estacado wines in the past, [...]
