Petit Verdot, Big Wine 12/01/11
It seems like only yesterday that Convicted for Grape first reared its sexy head, irredeemably corrupting the innocent world of wine blogging forever. But time must really fly when you’re drinking a lot, because it’s already been a whole year since my inaugural review of the Murphy-Goode 2005 River Ranch Petit Verdot – my very first Petit Verdot, in fact, whose pencil-y goodness thrilled me so much that I had no choice but to write about it. ...
read morePetit Verdotn’t mind if I do! 10/03/11
It’s finally October, and fear is in the air. But eager as we all are to dress up like our favorite Twilight characters, stuff our faces with candy and have drunken anonymous sex with other people dressed up like our favorite Twilight characters, it’s important to remember that Halloween isn’t until the end of the month. How, then, are we to keep ourselves occupied? I personally recommend wine, which has gotten me through more boring months than ...
read moreSay, do you remember my very first review? I wrote it way, way back in December of 2010: a simpler time, when there was only one kind of iPad on the market; when only two of the Jersey Shore’s three seasons had aired; and when people everywhere were enjoying what would turn out to be their final moments of peace and solidarity, before the pressures of the post-postmodern age impelled society to collapse in on itself like ...
read moreA Brief Hello and a Petit Verdot 12/01/10
Hey there! I’m new in town, and I’ve been compelled by certain overbearing fascist regulations to inform you that I am, in fact, a registered vinophile. That means I like wine – and I do! But not in a sexual way; that’s just a creepy metaphor. Be the first to like. Like Unlike
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