…EJ
To identify yourself properly, you must email me with the same email address you used to make your pledge. I then put it in the Fatemah3000 to verify it, and we take it from there.
EJ, you may contact me thusly: maggieATthewineoffensiveDOTcom. Congrats.
Now my top losers, and recipient of my runner up prize, are “Pat and […]

So this article came out about tasting rooms…
2006 Tasting Room Survey Report
by Veronica Barclay from Wine Business Monthly 05/15/2006
A main point shows that half of all wineries in the states charge for tastings at their tasting rooms. Another little interesting nugget is the fact that around 10% of survey respondents in Washington, Oregon, and California […]

I always space on Wine Blogging Wednesday. I can never remember when it is. It was about biodynamics or something this month. Hey wait, my article about Hedges Family Winery this week:
“The Poetic Margin” in the Seattle Weekly
tags: biodynamic, wine issues, seattle weekly

Abadia Retuerta’s Primicia and Rivola were always staples on my wine lists, rich but balanced Spanish wines without the stench of suntan oil. (Spanish reds with too much new American oak always smell like coconut Hawaiian Tropic to me.)
So, at right is the new package for the 2003 Rivola. It does everything correctly, making a […]

I’ve only managed to get up off my death bed/couch to post this:
Happy birthday you beautiful bitch.
Who you ask?
Why, only the coolest person on Earth.

Nerds! Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!
2006 has to be the pinnacle of the dork tide. Mind you, I say this as I’ve finished an epic 6 hour game of Risk. We chased our world domination with roast beef sandwiches and 1988 Masi Amarone which was teetering on the edge of greatness. Glad I didn’t wait another year. […]