1 day ago by christopherwatkins

Ok, maybe not the event of the century, but certainly an EXTREMELY noteworthy one! What is it? It’s this: The Monte Bello Half-Bottle Showcase! And what exactly does that mean? It’s means this: Please join Ridge Vineyards as we taste an extraordinary vertical flight of library Monte Bello bottled in ...

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2 days ago by Allan Delmare

I live on a winery, I’ve grown up on a winery, I’ve built a winery — but I don’t feel that I really know wine. So on my quest to really learn wine — and not just know it – I’ve decided to read wine blogs. And not just blogs like Wine Spectator, Robert Parker, etc etc. Great as they are, I’m looking ...

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4 days ago by christopherwatkins

For those of you who may have missed it, we had a rather lovely event up here at Monte Bello not so very long back (you can read about it and see pics here), and the wine blog-o has very kindly offered up a pair of fine write-ups about said event, which I encourage you to take a look at, in the hope ...

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4 days ago by christopherwatkins

Well, another ZAP has come and gone (just in case the acronym is not instantly recognizable, you can read a previous explanatory post here), and I have to tell you, in conversation with Paul Draper on Monday, he was absolutely over the moon about this year’s event, saying he thought it was just abou ...

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4 days ago by christopherwatkins

Great slew of Ridge information out there lately, in terms of contemporary tasting notes and other such items of interest to the Ridge-O-Philes among ye; some of it is Post-Zap commentary, some of it is Post-Ridge Events commentary, and some of it is just plain self-generated commentary, but it’s al ...

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4 days ago by 1WineDude

Ok. I wasn’t going to post about this, because quite frankly I’m starting to feel like I am treading a very fine line between self-serving, ego-stroking promotion of this blog and giving legitimate props to folks who are helping to make 1WineDude.com successful. This kind of tears me up because I’ve ...

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8 days ago by Nancy Yos

Okay, maybe one person asked them. Maybe I even thought of a few myself. I checked out your profile and I see you've been on Blogger since May 2006. But At First Glass' archives only start in December 2007. What's the deal? I experimented with a blog of book reviews beginning in May 2006, but I coul ...

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8 days ago by Tom Wark

"You are an important 'Influencer' in the wine industry". This was part of a message sent to me in an email late last week. Whether they were trying to butter me up or not isn't that important. But it's interesting that they wrote this because of late I've been thinking ...

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11 days ago by christopherwatkins

Greetings all! As the West Coast-based Zin-Obsessed amongst you will already know, this weekend is ZAP weekend. For this who don’t recognize the acronym, ZAP stands for Zinfandel Producers & Advocates, and every year they put on a Zinfandel Festival, which is truly one of the most oenophillically de ...

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13 days ago by christopherwatkins

Jerry Bullfrog’s Wine Stash. I love it! What a great name for a blog … And what a great idea for a blog! Here’s the tagline from the site: A review of a different wine/beer/spirit everyday for a year, blended with commentary on random observations. I love it! So, if you haven’t checked this blog out ...

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