A Bit Of Housecleaning

4 Mar 2008

By Dale Cruse

Soon you’ll note a couple of small changes around here.

First, I have become a featured publisher for FoodBuzz.com. You’ll soon see an ad for them here on the site. In the meantime, you can check out my featured publisher page on their site.

Also, I’m proud to have been nominated in the Best Graphics category of the 2008 American Wine Blog Awards.

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s Wine Blogging Wednesday and my weekly Bostonist.com column.

Drinks are on me!

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2 Responses to “A Bit Of Housecleaning”

Matthew Guilford
March 4th, 2008 at 10:05 pm

Dale,

Congratulations on the wine blogs award nomination, as well as your other accolades. Well done.

I had some Delta miles to burn, so I got a subscription to to the Wine Spectator for yucks and grins. Slanted piece of garbage as it has always been. The travel sections are actually quite good, but I can not trust the wine reviews. I think that a wine which rates a 90 in that mag could merit between an 85 or 95 with an independent reviewer, who accepts no advertising. That’s a wide swing. Advertising- the necessary evil of capitalist life in America.

On to wine……

Had a 2005 Burgundy tonight: Bourgogne Hautes Cotes de Nuits,
Les Champes Moutons, A. Chopin et Fils

Lovely, but closed. I should have waited a few more months. I have been dying to try the 2005’s and was told that the more generic Bourgognes would be approachable now. Not so with this bottle. Still, lots of spine here with a wide spread of cherry.
Looking forward to trying more.

I also had a noteworthy Aussie Shiraz aptly called Ball Buster.
It was a huge wine. Opaque, almost reddish black. Not a subtle wine this, but it fit the bill with barbeque.

I look forward to an entry about the wines of Friuli and the Veneto, both red and white. I love the wines of the Collio region
of Italy on the Slovenia border.

Cheers,

Matt
Dale Cruse
October 24th, 2008 at 5:49 am

Matt, I still think you should mention wine on your weblog. I think that would be an interesting read.

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