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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Wow hard to believe, but it’s that time of year again. And, for us 2018 was a very unpredictable year. Yes, we were blessed with our new grandson, Chase, who is an absolute joy. But, a lot of the other things we had expected did not happen. And, unfortunately a lot of things that […]
Click here to read entire article »BURGUNDY 2018
I first went to Burgundy to taste from barrel in the 1980s. This year marked over 30 years of tasting wines from barrel in Burgundy. During this period I have missed only a few years. I founded The Underground Wineletter in 1979 and soon after we were tasting wine from barrel in California, Bordeaux, […]
Click here to read entire article »WHAT DO NUMBERS HAVE TO DO WITH IT?
In the May 5-6, 2018 OFF DUTY supplement to THE WALL STREET JOURNAL the headline article was Do The Right Wines Win? by Lettie Teague. The author and a group of her wine friends decided to buy some relatively low priced wines with big numbers scores. Basically the article talked about the 100 […]
Click here to read entire article »THE ROSÉ PARADE
June is just around the corner and summer will soon be here. Although we drink rosés year round at our house, summer is the time that most American consumers join the rosé parade. And, each year the parade gathers more participants. According to Nielsen, Americans drank 67% more rosé in 2017 than they did […]
Click here to read entire article »BOOK ON ROBERT LAWRENCE BALZER PUBLISHED BY UNDERGROUND’S CONTRIBUTING EDITOR CHRISTINE GRAHAM
Christine Graham, a Contributing Editor to The Underground Wineletter, has just published a book on wine icon Robert Lawrence Balzer, Hollywood and Wine — A Star Studded Life, The Robert Lawrence Balzer Story. According to Christine, Balzer had been working on his autobiography for years but had only reached the decade of the 50s in […]
Click here to read entire article »A NATIONAL CONTEST TO SEE WHICH 100 POINT WINE WRITER HAS THE MOST CREATIVE WINE DESCRIPTIONS
Are you kidding me? After all I have written about Stupid Wine Descriptions (click here to read the most recent article) it seems that a well- known national publication will be setting up an annual contest to determine who can come up with the most “creative” wine descriptions. Reportedly, a $100,000 prize will go to […]
Click here to read entire article »2017 STUPID WINE DESCRIPTION WINNERS
For the last couple of years I have published a list of what I think are the most stupid wine descriptions published by some of the 100 point wine writers (to see last year’s winners click here). These wine descriptions are written by 100 point wine writers describing actual wines. But, take a […]
Click here to read entire article »HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018!
As humans we are all confronted with the fact that none of us can accurately see the future. Yet that does not stop some from professing to have magical predictive powers. But, most of us learn to expect the unexpected. Even so, 2017 brought several twists in my life. For a part of the […]
Click here to read entire article »NEWS FLASH – HAS FAKE NEWS TAKEN OVER THE WINE GAME?
These days it seems that everyone is buzzing about fake news. The government may even introduce a law that will teach people how to spot fake news. And, there is another move that is gaining some traction that would teach wine drinkers how to spot and identify fake wines. But, like fake news, fake wines […]
Click here to read entire article »2016 STUPID WINE DESCRIPTION AWARD WINNERS AND MORE!
Early last year I issued a challenge for readers to send in their favorite stupid wine descriptions (to read that article with links to lots of other stupid wine descriptions click here). The descriptions trickled in, but at the end there was one clear winner who sent in multiple entries. These include all the descriptions […]
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