No time for blogging, ’cause I’m moving to wine country today to be the Wine Director at the Naramata Heritage Inn & Spa for the summer season!
Look forward to Naramata dispatches all summer long!
Here’s an awesome little backgrounder on my new home:

I’m currently, and luckily, on a Wines Of Chile tour of the country’s many regions and wineries.  I’m going to try and pop in with a few notes here and there, WiFi allowing, to pass on some of my experiences.  You can look forward to a round-up piece when I return the [...]

Okay, why I thought I’d have time to blog during Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival week, I can’t even explain.  The long and short of it is that you should spend as much time as you can in the New Zealand part of the room, as it’s a regional focus this year and there’s some [...]

Aight!  So, it’s Wine Fest week here in Vancouver and the folks behind it have kindly compiled a Twitter List of participating wineries to follow.
Go there now!
http://twitter.com/#/list/PlayhouseWine/participating-wineries

Malcolm McLaren passed today.
A cultural icon for his performance art, managing the Sex Pistols, being a Hip Hop pioneer, influence on the masses and…wine guy?
Yup, it happened, and he wrote a piece for the New York Times Magazine on his experience:
Every day, the trainees were blindfolded and led to a spittoon. Here we were [...]

Lifehacker says you should make a bath mat!

My great friend and sometime partner-in-crime Rhys Pender (read The Ballad Of Rhys & Kurtis here…) has launched his own website full of wine wit, wisdom and hilarity.  All we can say is it’s about time!!
Congrats, pal!

SacreBleu challenge Sid The Kid to celebrate his success, not with beer, but with a glass of wine…

Okay, this is gonna be a quick one because we’re right in the middle of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and if I’m not working at Salt, I’m enjoying Olympic hoopla, and if I’m not enjoying Olympic hoopla, I’m sleeping.  Those are the three things I do these days and I’m totally not complaining.
One of [...]

Check out this rad infographic from Mint.com that features inexpensive wines that emulate the big boys!
Good for these penny-pinching times, plus we all love a good infographic, no?

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