The weather in Northern California this spring has been terrible. Cold and wet. There’s lots of complaining out there. In an attempt to understand what is going on I thought it advisable to go directly to the source. After considerable negotiation, I was able to secure an interview with Mother Nature. As you will [...]

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I don’t know how many wine blogs there are today. Over a 1000 in the English language is the best I can offer and even that is such a useless estimate. Most folks who have gone about attempting to categorize and list the various wine blogs that exist eventually just start to list them. [...]

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Thinking About…
THE REVELATIONUpon reading Anthony Lane’s remarkably thoughtful analysis of Terrence Malik’s new film, The Tree of Life, in The New Yorker, it finally hit me why wine critics likely won’t rise to the quality challenge laid down by critics surveying other pursuits such as film, literature, dance and music: As an object [...]

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SYNONYM OF THE DAY
In·er·tia [in-ur-shuh]1. inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and like; inactivity; sluggishness.
Three [three]  -  Tier [teer]  -  Sys·tem [sis-tuhm]1. inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and like; inactivity; sluggishness.
Never has such a pure set of synonyms existed. Dramatic proof that the three tier system is really just [...]

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The wine blog is now fully integrated into the world of wine writing.
Having spent more than 6 years fully immersed in the world of wine blogging and following its emergence and evolution, I think it can be said with great confidence that many of the most compelling wine voices are using this format [...]

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