“The first director I had at Second City said, ‘You have to learn to love the bomb,’ and I didn’t know what he meant for a very long time. …But there’s a buzz to failing and not dying.” – Stephen Colbert So the wine blogger scholarship contest, the one where if enough people submitted applications [...]
UPDATE: Lewis Perdue at Wine Industry Insight has the best article yet published on the closure. His reporting appears more accurate than mainstream newspapers. He’s a blogger by the way. Highly recommended. Usually I use this blog to express my views and opinions, but today I just have questions regarding the NVL closure. According to [...]
In Steve Heimoff’s most recent post regarding the controversy surrounding Robert Parker’s independent consultants (you can read the Wall Street Journal article on it here) he writes these words: Look, folks. Every wine writer with any influence or connections has partaken of gourmet meals for free. Every wine writer with any influence or connections has [...]

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