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Find Rare Shizz With Orpheus Alerts!

1WineDude — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 18:39:13 +0000

Some (more!) exciting news, folks: As many of you already know, sometimes wines get featured on here that are pretty rare. I’m talking about the kind of stuff that either doesn’t make it to the big platforms, or, if it does, is either priced astronomically or is gone in milliseconds. Understandably, that can be somewhat […]

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Get Ye Some November / December 2026 Tasting Panel!

1WineDude — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:20:04 +0000

Greetings, drunkards! A quick update today to let you know that the November/December 2026 issue of The Tasting Panel is upon us, and is now available for you to peruse! In this issue, I helped out my bruthah-from-anothah-muthah Jonathan Cristaldi with a detailed tasting report titled “East Meets West,” in which JC highlights a veritable […]

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Yet Another Vintage Port Flex Post (Tasting Selections From 1985 – 2022)

1WineDude — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Last week, I published a bunch of reviews from an NYC media tasting of selections from the (stellar) 2024 Port vintage. I typically follow those type of posts up with another post of other, older selections of vintage Ports that I tasted at the same event, and I offer them without much shame as simply […]

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“Unquestionably Among the Greatest Wines in the World” (Tasting the 2024 Port Vintage)

1WineDude — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000

You’ll find no shortage of Vintage Port coverage on these virtual pages (something that, as I taste more and more vintages of the stuff, has become a source of amusing vexation as I search for whether or not a VP that I want to feature here has already been reviewed and featured here…). And you’ll […]

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(Another) Exciting New Chapter

1WineDude — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:28:35 +0000

Much has been happening behind the scenes here at the new 1WD HQ, folks. You might have heard the recent news that my bruthah-from-anothah-muthah Jonathan Cristaldi is moving into the role of Chief Wine Critic for both The Tasting Panel and its sister publication The SOMM Journal. As JC wrote in the press release for […]

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Adapting, Judging, and Unlearning Wine on the Wonderful World of Wine Podcast

1WineDude — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000

It’s been a hectic time with the relocation of 1WD HQ (I suspect that I’ll be stuck in unpacking hell for at least a few more weeks, which is particularly painful for a neat-freak like myself); so much so that I’ve kind of forgotten about some of the interviews I did for the releases of […]

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Lambrusco, Reconsidered (VentiVenti Recent Releases)

1WineDude — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Lambrusco has a pretty well-established reputation, right? Exuberant, refreshing, fun, sometimes boring (truth hurts, people, truth hurts). But what happens when you take those qualities and apply a little more patience and ambition? I got to explore that question in June, when I sat down (virtually) with brothers Riccardo and Andrea Razzaboni of VentiVenti for […]

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AI Casts a Pall Over the Wine Writing World, and It’s Mostly Your (Our) Fault

1WineDude — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:48:01 +0000

Well, it seems that AI is all the rage in the news lately (even my now 99 year old cousin was asking me about it), and wouldn’t ya know it, just a few days after I waxed pseudo-philosophically about wine writing online in the age of agentic browsing traffic comes news that a winner of […]

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Wine Writing in the Age of Agentic Browsing

1WineDude — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000

There is something deeply weird happening on the Internet. And no, I am not talking about whatever thing your sick-o brain just thought up, though I am certain that whatever it is, is truly, horribly weird. I am talking about how we find and consume content and information, and, naturally, I noticed it because wine. […]

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The Start of Something (Thoughts on Oltrepò Pavese Classese, and La Genisia Recent Releases)

1WineDude — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“There’s something happenin’ here…” The “here” in this case is Oltrepò Pavese, in Lombardy’s western edge, in northern Italy. It happens to sit right on the 45th parallel, which as a wine nerd you will have at some point heard of (as it is roughly where you can also find Piedmont, Burgundy, Bordeaux, and the […]

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