09 Nov 2016
Daddy is a loser
I am not a sore loser. I’m actually a very experienced loser. I know how to lose and yet feel I made a contribution.
Category Archives Popular Culture
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22 Nov 2015Thirsty Dragon: China’s Lust for Bordeaux and the Threat to the World’s Best Wines: Book Review
Read moreIf you like wine, you will love Thirsty Dragon, but this is not essential. What matters more is that you are curious about how the world works, in particular how global markets work, and how this is all changing.
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12 Jun 2014What illiterate designer created this World Cup Wine design?
Read moreThere is a rather big difference ordering a wine called “Faces” from one called “Fæces”
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19 May 2014Vinalogy – wine basics with a twist: Book Review
Read moreHow would you rather learn about wine? With technical ratings and jargon? With random adjectives? Or how about well-crafted characters and stories that bring out the characteristic aspects of individual grapes and wines to help create a meaningful mental image of the wine?
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09 May 2014Salt & Old Vines: Book Review
Read moreIf you simply love drinking wine, like me, then this book should scare you away from ever wanting to make wine, yet make you want to drink it more, … but then simply drinking it may not be enough for you.
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24 Apr 2014Taking the wrong Stairway to Heaven
Read moreI asked the staff in my local record shop for “the album with ‘Stairway to Heaven’ on it”. I was never sure whether it was their stupidity, or actual malice, which resulted in me going home with a copy of Neil Sedaka’s Greatest Hits
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17 Mar 2014Sommelier and the Storybook
Read moreIs this the only song ever about a conversation with a sommelier? Song and lyrics to Nekta’s Sommelier
