January 2012
2 posts
September 2011
2 posts
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Merle Haggard
Life seemed so sincere until the age of 23. I don’t know what fruit I ate, but suddenly everyone’s intentions were ripe with intrigue and greed. It’s probably only my projections, as I realized all I wanted was what’s mine. Or, perhaps, what I thought was mine. But the blatant annotation I labeled on everything was one capitalized word in permanent marker: fake.
Maybe...
June 2011
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April 2011
2 posts
Wine Divorced From Food? Let’s Be Adults About It →
I was saying the same thing awhile ago, and basically got shat on my blog and twitter (well, as much as a shitty lil’ blogger like me can be.)
My argument isn’t that wine doesn’t belong with food, just that kids (o’er 21, of course…ahem) don’t necessarily think so.
February 2011
5 posts
Down the hatch...
decantchicago:
I wish I had been taking tasting notes!
All I can say is I wish I had been taking tasting notes while in Beaune…
Video: Wine Shelf Collapses →
Jointing a Chicken: A Moment in Vinous Clarity →
January 2011
7 posts
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Wine pr0n. →
Most shower heads release about two and a half gallons of water per minute. I usually take about ten minutes, you know, depending on whether or not I condition my mane, which is in the preliminary stages of ‘fro greatness.
I’m doing this because that shit’s impressive. Especially when I’m tasting wine, and people want to ask me stupid questions like, “How old are you?” and “So you’re a blogger,...
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December 2010
12 posts
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Drinks Are On Me: Best New Food & Drink Blogs 2010 →
drinksareonme:
If 2009 was the year food & drink blogs finally started to make a difference, 2010 might be remembered as the year the wheat was started to be separated from the chaff.
The quality of writing is as high or higher than ever, but the quantity of new sites devoted to food & wine seemed like it…
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A $23 glass of wine is a damn hard swallow. →
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November 2010
1 post
October 2010
3 posts
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September 2010
9 posts
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drinksareonme asked: Bro, that's not a "bull-fighting clown" - that's Ace Frehley, guitarist from KISS!
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August 2010
13 posts
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BIN 36 Challenge: Week 2 →
I’ll be drinking wyne, you should come.
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Drinks Are On Me: Read The Judgment Of Paris In... →
Time Magazine used the Internet to republish their entire collection of articles dating back to 1943. Now, for the first time in decades, we wine geeks can read the 359 words that shocked the world in 1976. Here is George M. Taber’s landmark reporting from France.
Judgment of Paris
Monday,…
This is history, kids.
Sam Klingberg: Chicago’s Broke Wino →
Check out a lil’ interview with yours truly.
(via sacrebleuwine)