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1WineDude Gets a Facelift
I’ve been a bit off-the-grid lately, getting yet another gum graft (occupational hazard, unfortunately) and working on a crap-ton of behind-the-scenes shizz (much of which you will all hear about in the near future 🤞🤞). One of those under-the-foil-closure initiatives has been a total redesign of the 1WineDude website, which in true Dude fashion began […] Source
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Are Our Standards Too Low? (Longlisted for the 67 Pall Mall Global Wine Communicator Awards 2026)
In what can only be considered a serious blow to global wine communication standards, my book How to WIN at Wine: A Practical Playbook for Getting Maximum Enjoyment from Every Bottle — Without Spending a Fortune has been longlisted for the Laurent-Perrier Award for Best Global Wine Communicator in Long-Form Writing in the 67 Pall […] Source
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More Big News: Now Contributing to Tasting Panel & SOMM Journal
More big news for The Dude, folks! I’m happy to report that I will be a contributor to two U.S.-based wine magazines: The Tasting Panel and The SOMM Journal (longtime 1WD readers might recall that I first penned an article for the then-recently-rebranded SOMM Journal back in… wait for it… 2014!!). You’ll start to see […] Source
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(Another!) New Book: Unlearning Wine (Busting Up the Wine Myths That Refuse to Die)
At this point, I think that we can call me categorically insane, because I felt compelled to write yet another goddamned book! The story unfolded something like this… I was thinking about the myth of “good” vs. “bad” wine that is the crux of the second chapter of my 2025 book How to WIN at […] Source
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Campanilismo in the Glass: Touring Central Italy for Cristaldi & Co.
A quick note to let you know that my inaugural piece for Cristaldi & Co. is now live, focusing on four producers that I visited in Central Italy (via media tour) in the Fall of 2025. It was a fantastic jaunt, with great food and even better people. And the wines were pretty wonderful, too! […] Source
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Hopes and Dreams for 2026 (Ringing in the New Wine Year at The Sipping Point Podcast)
I am having a difficult time believing this as I type it, but it has been OVER A FREAKIN’ DECADE since I was last a guest on Laurie Forster’s entertaining The Sipping Point podcast. HOLY. CRAP! I had the good fortune recently to have Laurie invite me back on her show, where we once again […] Source
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BIG NEWS: Joe Joins Cristaldi & Co. (and Here’s Your DISCOUNT CODE!)
BIG NEWS, folks! As some of you have seen already, we’ve officially announced that I am on the editorial staff at Cristaldi & Co., joining my longtime bruthah-from-anothah-muthah Jonathan Cristaldi as a contributor and wine reviewer on his new genre-disrupting platform. I am very excited to officially pair up with JC, with whom I have […] Source
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