Finding Serenity: Surviving Super Bowl with a few “Calm” Drinking Tips

Honestly, some of us don’t give a “flying football” who’s playing whom. Or when, why and how for that matter. Let’s face facts: for those of us who are “somewhat indifferent” about the whole thing, regardless, we’re in it in some form or another, whether that means our significant other is crazy excited or somehow the neighborhood is coming over because of that big screen in the back room. (More than likely the significant other let that slip.) For those of us indifferent to the game, but quite ecstatic about … Read more →

All Roads Lead to Stefano.

He and I have never met.  In fact, our schedules couldn’t support it and our only correspondence has been email, on the road, managed through our smart phones.  Sometimes however, the most simple of communiqué is all that’s needed. My business partner, Eric GUY and I run the Monday evening Twitter program #WineStudio. Along with Social Media personality Bill Eyer, the curriculum program runs 5 weeks continuously where we focus on a particular wine region, sometimes the same winemaker, usually off the beaten path, sometimes with quite the controversial wine … Read more →

Bayesian Bottle Memoirs

Anyone can drink a glass of wine and spew words to describe it. Sometimes they publish this opinion and call themselves experts.  Worse yet, occasionally people believe them. Wine reviewing has become a convoluted world, where critics hide behind words and subjective opinions rather than speaking wine facts. Worse yet all too often wine reviews also miss sharing the soul of the wine drinking experience.  Instead they focus on why their opinion is more relevant than your perceptions and individual experience. All too often wine drinkers sop up the common wine … Read more →