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Sunday, September 18, 2005
Welcome to Uncorked!
Welcome!
You’ve tuned into the “Uncorked” wine blog by Dayton Daily News wine columnist Mark Fisher. Here you’ll find observations, opinions, provocations, queries, pronouncements, tasting notes, details of upcoming wine tastings and other assorted mayhem.
What you won’t find, I hope, is pretense. The wine world has plenty of that already.
A quick introduction: I’m a native Daytonian and have worked as a reporter for the Dayton Daily News since 1983 (I started when I was 12. Okay, not really). I’ve written the “Taste of Wine” column — which runs twice a month inside the Friday Life section — for the Daily News since 1989. In the “day job,” I covered higher education for 15 years before becoming the newspaper’s food and dining reporter in August 2006 (Information updated 9-16-06).
I’m no “expert” on wine; I know just enough be dangerous, just enough to recognize when some other self-anointed “expert” is blowing smoke, and enough to be humbled about how much I don’t know about fermented grape juice and the magic that surrounds it. I think that places me somewhere in the overlapping zone between “wine enthusiast” and “wine geek.” I embrace the former, but don’t deny the latter.
In addition to passing along news and opinions, I’ll invite wine shop folks to submit their special events and the lists of wine they’re tasting each week (Hey, it wasn’t MY idea to take the tastings lists out of the paper … ) so we all can stay on top of what’s going on. Otherwise, I’ll do my best to keep the conversation lively, and I welcome your help. Don’t be shy about posting your comments, critiques, criticisms and whatever other insight this dialogue (and a sip of chardonnay) may trigger.
Cheers! Mark Fisher “Uncorked”
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