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Not Much Gold In Them Thar Hills (Inside The 2011 Lake County Wine Awards, Part Three) | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/index...
The Gold Rush in California dried up more-or-less 150 years ago. And the 2011 Lake County Wine Awards results didn’t do much as far as opening the - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini Reviews Round-Up For August 13, 2011 | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/...
Uhm, like what is this stuff? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine sample tasting notes via - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini Reviews Round-Up For August 13, 2011 | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/index...
Uhm, like what is this stuff? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine sample tasting notes via - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Boozy Bargains Best Big Boys. Sort Of. (Inside The 2011 Lake County Wine Awards, Part Two) | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/...
Sensationalist headline, for sure - and not all of the wines I'm going to talk about today were boozy. And they didn't really best the biggest boys, if by big - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
What I Learned At Summer Wine Judging Camp (Inside The 2011 Lake County Wine Awards, Part One) | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/...
A little over a week ago I helped to judge the 2011 Lake County Wine Awards Competition, which was held at Brassfield Estate Winery in the ludicrously-beautiful - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Why Every Wine Lover Should Have A Wine Blog | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/index...
If you love wine, you can do something that costs $0.00 and is almost certainly will up your wine appreciation and wine tasting I.Q. score varios puntos. - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Focus, Focus, Focus: Zeroing In On Wines For Now At Virginia’s Blenheim Vineyards | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/...
I am not a fan of small producers in emerging wine regions bottling and selling a large array of varietal wines; almost everyone loves having choices, but too - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Most People Will Never Get Into Wine – And Why That’s OK (The Launch of Crushd, And Analyzing The Wine Geek Pyramid at WBC11) | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/...
Chances are pretty high that, if you’re reading this (and you’re reading this), you are a wine geek. And by wine geek, I mean that you are atop the - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
How I Fell Back In Love With Food-And-Wine Pairing (And Why The “Drink Whatever You Want” Mantra Might Be Wrong) | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/...
I fell back in love with food-and-wine pairing when I helped a friend (the irrepressible Tony The Wine Chef Lawrence) with an outdoor wine / cooking demo - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini Reviews Round-Up For July 30, 2011 | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/index...
Uhm, like what is this stuff? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine sample tasting notes via - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Sweet Wine Drinkers, (A Lack Of) Panties, And How We Experience Wine | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/index...
According to a recent survey of wine drinkers, headed up jointly by Cornell professor Virginia Utermohlen and controversial wine guru Tim Hanni, wine consumers - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Judging The 2011 Wine Blog Awards (Post-WBC11 Hangover Edition) | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/index...
It feels strange being able to settle at home and pop open a Flying Dog brewski only a few short hours after the 2011 Wine Bloggers Conference, the last - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini Reviews Round-Up For July 23, 2011 | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/index...
Uhm, like what is this stuff? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine sample tasting notes via - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Benny And The Jetsetters: Tasting A 111 Year Old Wine | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/index...
Until a little over a week ago, I’d never had a one hundred and eleven year old wine before. And when heading out to dinner in downtown Chicago, I hadn’t - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Wake Up, Wine People: Boomers Won’t Be Buying Your Wine Forever | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/index...
Although the conclusion implied in the title of today's post probably seems obvious to many (i.e., a company/brand has to eventually court younger customers - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
West Of West Wine Festival Giveaway! | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/...
The 2011 West of West Wine Festival is almost around the corner – held in Occidental, CA, the festival will showcase cool-climate (well, cool-climate for CA, - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
VA Is For… Wine Bloggers (WBC11 Bound) | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/index...
This week marks the kick-off of the 4th annual North American Wine Bloggers Conference, held (for the first time in its history) on the Right Coast - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
The Great Big G*ddamn South American Wrap Up! | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/index...
Whew! When I agreed with South American PR firm Brandabout to join them on a wine-touring excursion to Chile and Argentina, I never expected to come back - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini Reviews Round-Up For July 16, 2011 | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/...
Uhm, like what is this stuff? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine sample tasting notes via - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Signs Of Life: What It Takes To Make Wines Of True Character (With Matt Powell of Draconis) | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/...
What Is The Job Of The Winemaker Today? Simple question, right?  “Duh! To make wine!” you might be answering to yourself.  What could be more simple - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Talkin’ ‘Bout Their Wine G-G-G-Generation (Millennials And Wine At WBC11) | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/index...
Those of you planning on attending the upcoming 2011 Wine Bloggers Conference in Charlottesville, VA will have your choice of interesting break-out session - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
1WineDude TV Episode 36: Not Quite Dead (Why Most Wine Books Don’t Match With eReaders… Yet!) | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/...
In this Episode of 1WineDude TV, we’re talking about why wine books are Exhibit A evidence in the case against printed books being dead. Also mentioned is a - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini Reviews Round-Up For July 9, 2011 | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/index...
Uhm, like what is this stuff? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine sample tasting notes via - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
In Memoriam: Drinking Red Newt Cellars | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/...
Sad news reverberated through the wine world recently, with particular resonance here on the Right Coast. Deb Whiting, whose culinary talents at Red Newt Bistro - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Dance On A Volcano: Grapegrowing At The Edge Of Time At Clos de los Siete | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/index...
“This…. this was all vineyards of Malbec…” They say the Italian influence runs strong in Argentina, and nowhere does it look stronger than in the - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Is It Time For Wine To Get The Like Button? | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/...
We wine geeks review wines in all manner of differing ways.  There’s nearly as much variety in those review systems as there are in wine styles.  Points. - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
The PLCB’s Version Of “Innovation” (or “God Help Me, I’m A Wine Lover Living In PA!”) | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/...
The recent news of perpetually-hip grocery company Wegman’s pulling out of the troubled PA Liquor Control Board's wine kiosk program has caused a bit of a - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini Reviews Round-Up For July 2, 2011 | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/...
Uhm, like what is this stuff? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine sample tasting notes via - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
The Long View Of Long Island Red (Tasting Through 20+ Years Of Peconic Bay Merlot) | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/...
“No one really gets to try older Long Island wine… because, well, there really isn’t any!” James Silver, General Manager of Peconic Bay Winery, was - Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts
Blood Into Wine Into Badge (Reviewing Arizona Wines) | 1 Wine Dude - http://www.1winedude.com/index...
I know this end-of-week segment has tentatively been reserved for wines of the week, but so far I’ve featured wines not actually reviewed during the week in - Joe Roberts
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