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  • Daddy is a loser
    09 Nov 2016
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    Daddy is a loser

    • Popular Culture
    • brexit, donald trump, election, politics, US election

    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.

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  • Thirsty Dragon: China’s Lust for Bordeaux and the Threat to the World’s Best Wines: Book Review
    22 Nov 2015
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    Thirsty Dragon: China’s Lust for Bordeaux and the Threat to the World’s Best Wines: Book Review

    • Popular Culture
    • ballroom dancing, book review, china, suzanne mustacich, tango, thirsty dragon, wine

    If 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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  • What illiterate designer created this World Cup Wine design?
    12 Jun 2014
    2

    What illiterate designer created this World Cup Wine design?

    • Popular Culture
    • branding, joke, wine, world cup

    There is a rather big difference ordering a wine called “Faces” from one called “Fæces”

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  • Vinalogy – wine basics with a twist: Book Review
    19 May 2014
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    Vinalogy – wine basics with a twist: Book Review

    • Popular Culture
    • book review, father's day, gift, helena nicklin, introduction, learning, vinalogy, wine education, winebird

    How 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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  • Salt & Old Vines: Book Review
    09 May 2014
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    Salt & Old Vines: Book Review

    • Popular Culture
    • Banyuls AOC, book, Collioure, review, Richard Bray, unbound, wine, Winemaking

    If 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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  • Taking the wrong Stairway to Heaven
    24 Apr 2014
    0

    Taking the wrong Stairway to Heaven

    • Popular Culture
    • No tags

    I 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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  • Sommelier and the Storybook
    17 Mar 2014
    1

    Sommelier and the Storybook

    • Popular Culture
    • culture, lyrics, nekta, pop, sommelier, song, wine

    Is this the only song ever about a conversation with a sommelier? Song and lyrics to Nekta’s Sommelier

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