A NOTE FROM THE FUTURE: Back in the day, we could just plop in pictures from anywhere into our blog posts. In the many years that have followed, we’ve learned that we should be concerned about copywrite rules and proper payment for content creators – even, or especially, those on the internet. So rather than plop in the picture, go have a look at their wine cartoons – and if you like them, buy them!
I can’t find the cartoon I posted back in 2010 on their site. It’s a little different than the How to Appreciate Wine version that I liked below. What I had originally posted was How to Truly Appreciate Wine. And it went like this:
- Attend a history of wine lecture: MAYBE
- Attend a wine tasting course: MAYBE
- Read literature on the subject: MAYBE
- Watch documentaries on the subject: MAYBE
- Buy a bottle and drink it with someone nice: DEFINATELY
True then. Still true today.
Originally posted on May 28, 2010.
I subscribe to a lot of daily email lists, all somewhat related to wine, wine/press, food, and restaurants: HARO, Urban Daddy, Thrillest, FoodEatDrink, Tasting Table, Buffalo Trace, winejobs, decanter, Garagiste and who knows how many retail store sites. My in-box (well, honestly, my trash box) is filled enough wine/food industry news to fill a cable network.
But I also subscribe to Harold’s Planet which publishes a daily carton about a blobby little guy named….you guessed it….Harold. Some of his thoughts/adventures are really funny, some are a little weird, and occasionally, like today, they’re about wine and absolutely, 100% spot-on.