Search Poor Robert’s
Tumbler Award
- Follow Poor Robert's (Wine) Almanac on WordPress.com
The Wine Calendar
February 2023 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Top Posts & Pages
- Covid-19 and Small Wineries -- A Personal Perspective From the Trenches
- New Wine for a New Generation of Wine Drinkers Or . . .
- Wine Tasting and Reviews for the Masses
- Wine, Wine Everywhere, but is it Old Enouth to Drink?
- Rioja Versus Rioja - Will One Tempranillo More?
- Economic Impact of California Wine Country Wildfires: Preliminary Analysis
- The Weekly wine for September 25, 2017 A Very Rare (unobtainable) Wine
- Weekly Wine for April 29, 2017
- A White Barbera (yes that's correct)
- A Guest Post by Pascal, a Young Frenchman living in South Carolina who loves and lives Wine.
Poor Robert’s Ramblings
- May 2020 (1)
- August 2018 (1)
- July 2018 (1)
- March 2018 (1)
- November 2017 (1)
- October 2017 (1)
- September 2017 (1)
- April 2017 (1)
- March 2017 (1)
- January 2017 (2)
- December 2016 (1)
- October 2016 (3)
- September 2016 (2)
- August 2016 (2)
- July 2016 (1)
- June 2016 (3)
- May 2016 (4)
- April 2016 (8)
- March 2016 (14)
- February 2016 (8)
- January 2016 (7)
- March 2015 (2)
- September 2014 (1)
- July 2014 (1)
- June 2014 (5)
- May 2014 (5)
- April 2014 (3)
Category Archives: Whimsy
Will the Real Sangria Please Stand Up
I am, to a fault, a wine purest and don’t add anything to my wine, no ice, no sugar no fruit and certainly (not since my Fraternity days) don’t pour two wines in the same glass. The days of pouring … Continue reading
Posted in Red Wine, Sangria, Varietals, Whimsy, Wines
Tagged Cabernet Sauvignon, Sangria, Wine
10 Comments
The Billionaire’s Vinegar–A Tale of the Other Wine World
My world of wine exists for my enjoyment and the enjoyment of hundreds of others who sip, pair and socializing with a glass of wine in our hands. I recently read a books entitled “The Billionaires Vinegar” which tells the … Continue reading
Posted in Whimsy, Wine Making, Winemakers, Winemaking, Words, Writing
Tagged Billionaires, Fraud Wines, Wine Making, Wine Worlds, Writing
5 Comments
A Wine Sample Policy, Say What!!
You heard it correctly, a wine sample policy. It’s the craziest thing, I’ve always purchased the wine and other products I wrote about in my blog and never gave having a sample policy a thought. Well I am now getting … Continue reading
Posted in Argentine, France, Hodgpodge, Sample Policy, Samples, Whimsy, Wine Samples, Wine Tasting, Winemakers, Wines
Tagged Hodgepodge, Whimsy, Wine Glasses, Wine Samples
9 Comments
For the Love of Very Dry White Wine
This post comes under the classification of: flashback, fond memory, or senility, you decide. As I read through some wine blog comments and replies last night one of them mentioned that they wished there were more really dry (less sweet … Continue reading
Life Observed Through the Bottom of a Wine Bottle
We’ve all heard the phrase “looking at the world through the bottom of a bottle”. Well I did just that and had to be stone cold sober to pull it off. I’ve been having some fun lately using empty wine … Continue reading
Posted in Hodgpodge, Life Balance, Whimsy, Wine Glasses, Wine Photos
Tagged Whimsy, Wine, Wine Bottles, Wine Photos
8 Comments
Writers Block for a Wine Reviewer
Writers block comes in a number of forms for serious writers. It can be lack of ideas, stress, being unhappy with ones writing, or a lack of validation (self mostly). For a wine reviewer there can be another reason, wine … Continue reading
Posted in Craft Wines, Life Balance, Production Wine, Whimsy, Wines, Words, Writing
Tagged Varitals, Wine, Wine Terms, Writer Block
8 Comments
My World Through Wine Glasses
I’ve always been a fan of Alice In Wonderland and I find a bit of whimsy in looking at things through the distortion of the bottom’s of bottles of all sorts, especially wine bottles with their really curvy bottoms. Today … Continue reading
Posted in Hodgpodge, Life Balance, Port, Whimsy, Wine Glasses, Wine Photos
Tagged Distortion, Hodgepodge, Life Balance, Modern World, Port, Whimsy, Wine Glasses
15 Comments