Wine Tonite!

The 2010 Wine Blogger’s Conference is nearly upon us.  This will be my second and it feels good that I won’t have that freshman feeling walking around campus with a map in my hand and propeller on my head.  Nope, no longer a noob.  A lot has happened in the past year since WBC09 in [...]

I must say great job to the hosts of the #WAwine Twitter community tasting and especially to fellow blogger and Spokane wine guru, Josh Wade, who has burst on the scene to become possibly the most influential online wine personality and brand in the past few months. At the time of this writing, which is [...]

As we waited in the middle of a 100-person line in order to get our Crush It! books signed by author, wine and social media guru, Gary Vaynerchuk, Joe (@suburbanwino) and I shared with each other how we’re both not normally people who are “star struck.”  We don’t collect autographs, we don’t go running up to celebrities screaming [...]

I am in my element, in the zone, dare I say “en fuego” sometimes when working a party.  Yeah, I know, I’m full of myself (or full of something), but talking about wine, tasting and sharing it with others seems like second nature to me and Tuesday night was no exception.  I felt I was Crushing [...]

There is a shift going on in the wineblogging world.  Or at least the subset that I have the attention span to pay attention to these days.  At first it was mostly about the wine, the label, the fruit-forwardness, the nutty characters and spicy finish for only $14.99 at the grocery store down the street, [...]