Wine, happiness, a culture of pleasure. An exploration that roams from a local wine drinking community to a whole world of passion, beauty, and pleasure that awaits us out there. You know, eat, drink, and be merry-type stuff. Let's dive into wine and pleasure, but not take ourselves too seriously. After all, as a friend of mine likes to point out to beer geeks and wine freaks, "we're just talking about 10 minutes of pleasure, that's all."
To connect with me elsewhere, I can be found on Twitter @RonMarks, on Cork'd to share what we're drinking, or for my more personal mindcasting stuff, check out www.ronmarks.tumblr.com, or you can simply ask me a question here
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Wine Satan or Wine Savior? An Interview With Wine Trials Author Robin Goldstein | 1 Wine Dude
I recommend reading this interview. This guy talks about wine appreciation, how expectation affects what we think about wine, why you should taste wines blind, and why you should take 100 point ratings with grain of salt. These are issues that are good for any wine lover, beginner or not.
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What led you to create The Wine Trials? You seem to be passionate about blind tasting as a means for consumers to find their own, individual palates and wine preferences…
First of all, it was a book I wanted to use myself. I had grown tired of the increasing opacity of the way inexpensive wines were being branded – who knows what to make of a shelf full of wines branded with labels full of animals or cartoons of scantily clad women?? And I thought wine drinkers needed a guide like this. I also thought the under-$15 market – the wines most people really drink – was being underserved by wine magazines, which tend to be overly focused on expensive wines.
Amen to that.
Wine Satan or Wine Savior? An Interview With Wine Trials Author Robin Goldstein | 1 Wine Dude
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Here is the first of my interviews with local wine people, that is, people who are a part of and help shape the community of wine and please seekers local to Fort Collins and Boulder.
My intention in this series of interview is to not just show you particulars about the wine and pleasure seeking community in Northern Colorado, but to use our wine culture to illuminate different aspects of the what I think of as the pleasure culture more broadly defined.
For my first interview, recorded in early January, I sit down with Stephanie Davis of Kylix Wine. Stephanie is a wine educator, and in this video she explains what that is, and demonstrates - with the help of two bottles of sparkling wine - what it is that a wine educator can do. This was informative for me too, as I not only learned a few things about these sparkling wines, but I got a glimpse into the “work” of a wine educator. I think more than a few of my readers/viewers will have a new dream job after this!
If you want to learn more, please feel free to check out Kylix Wine here, and if you are local to us, be sure to look her up.
So, until the next time, let me raise my glass to you, and hope you are living la dolce vita.
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Local Wine Culture Series: Synergist Part I
Continuing with my local wine community focus, talking with both the people who enjoy the wines and the people who bring us the enjoyable wines, I sit down here to talk with Tony Chadwick of Synergist. Tony is a wine consultant and wine marketer, and in this video he explains what that is and how it differs from a wine rep.
If you would like to contact Tony with any questions, he can be reached at tonywine@q.com and (720) 933-6556
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Local Wine Culture: Synergist Part II, plus drinking
Here I continue the local wine community series with part two of my interview with Tony Chadwick of Synergist. In part one he talked about what a wine consultant does, and how it differs from a wine rep. In today’s video, WE DRINK!!!
Hey, it wouldn’t be a wine show without a little wine.
(Disclaimer: Tony left three of the opened bottles for me after the tasting was over. I did not protest.)
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