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Tuesday Link Roundup

Here are some wine links to tide your day over. Vintage America is a new series on Eater National by Talia Baiocchi. Each weekly installment will traverse through the pockmarked timeline of U.S....

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My Wine Predictions for 2011

I pride myself on not being a typical blogger. I strive not to write boring meta-narrative drivel such as, “So, last night I was having drinks with my boys, pounding down the PBR like I was trying to...

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Sauvignon Blanc, a Rant

- Today’s post is provided by Vidas Germanas, a complete badass who is a regular reader and commenter on Brokewino.com. He hails from Chicagoland, and when he isn’t shooing migrant hipsters off of his...

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Value Bordeaux is Not an Oxymoron

The French, and Bordeaux wine in particular, have long cultivated an image of wanton elitism. The words Champagne, Luis Vuitton, and Douchebag, all carry an understanding of affluence before any mental...

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What’s Your Favorite New Way to Learn About Wine?

The path to being a wine rockstar is littered with dead sentences, you literally need to read as much as you drink, and you need to be drinking a hell of a lot. There’s important stuff you gotta...

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Guiding the Blind

I am a regular guest on Wines.com’s blog the Wine Crush Blog and in this installment I take on Dara Grumdahl’s technophobic non-sequitur, read on. In a column titled “No, There’s Not An App For That,”...

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Wine Pr0n: An Introductory Essay

Most shower heads release about two and a half gallons of water per minute. I usually take about ten minutes, you know, depending on whether or not I condition my mane, which is in the preliminary...

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Take the 80 Sips Challenge Chicago

Bottlenotes and Cheeky Chicago are teaming up to challenge our midwestern palates to taste at least six different wines from the sponsoring wineries at a few participating Chicago restaurants between...

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New Zealand Wine Day at Kenmore Live Studios Chicago

Waitangi Day commemorates an agreement between the British Crown and the native New Zealanders, the Māori. Many modern Māori have protested the celebration because of alleged unfairness in the treaty....

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Jointing a Chicken: A Moment in Vinous Clarity

Today I have the pleasure of providing some meaty content on my friend Joe’s blog, Suburbanwino.com. It’s a post that combines my love for typos, cutting shit up, mangled quotations of Henry David...

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