W. Blake Gray
@wblakegray
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Best Online Wine Columnist in the World! 2013 Roederer Award in that category, and they stopped giving out that award immediately afterward. In perpetuity!
San Francisco
Joined June 2009
Hipsters be damned, whiskey on ice tastes nice. But, which whiskies are best on the rocks? Let's ask the experts. https://t.co/QzzB4mdThX
wine-searcher.com
We tackle the big topics here at Wine-Searcher and they don't come much bigger than adding ice to whiskey. Read the latest wine news & opinion on wine-searcher
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At the @MCC_Budapest Summit on the Global Drug Epidemic I explain harm reduction's initial goals and how it transformed into a social justice movement that created a 2 tiered justice system for people who use drugs. This enabled the drug crisis. It's just the truth.
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San Francisco is a blueprint for the revolt of the political center. We can take our city back from the virtue signaling grifting political activist class that created the doom loop. Dismantling the homeless industrial complex is next. Fund treatment and recovery. You can do
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Progressives in San Francisco scrapped middle school algebra and rebranded the move as “equity,” a tidy way to hide that the real problem was their own inability to teach elementary school math.
More than half of all San Francisco Unified School District students are not proficient in math. Nearly half of all students were not proficient in math in the third grade. That number jumps to nearly 60% of students in the eighth grade.
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Wish this wasn't behind a paywall (sorry). A Texas-style playoff tiebreaker -- three coaches flipping coins in a gas station midway between their schools -- happened again last night, just like in the real-life Friday Night Lights. https://t.co/OHRYh1E5LW
nytimes.com
There was one playoff spot for three high schools. So naturally, it was decided by a coin flip at a Toot’n Totum in the heart of West Texas.
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If you're tired of reading bad news about the wine industry, let's break it up with ... some bad news about the craft beer industry. https://t.co/oSEvzUefMA
washingtonbeerblog.com
Effective immediately, Rogue ceased operations at all its facilities, including the brewery in Newport, OR, and its pubs in Astoria, Newport, Portland, and Salem.
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Statistically, Lodi has more acreage of "exotic" or emerging varieties than any other CA region. Randy Caparoso makes a compelling case for it having some of the most intriguing wines as well.
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When you consider the enormous boost in yields per acre going from hidden illegal farming to intensive agriculture, this was utterly predictable.
Cannabis farmers in California have the same problem as wine grape farmers: There are too many of them. There's a glut of cannabis and prices farmers are paid aren't sustainable. (As a consumer though, its a GREAT time to buy cannabis in California.) https://t.co/RwAEUFTJvi
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Cannabis farmers in California have the same problem as wine grape farmers: There are too many of them. There's a glut of cannabis and prices farmers are paid aren't sustainable. (As a consumer though, its a GREAT time to buy cannabis in California.) https://t.co/RwAEUFTJvi
sfgate.com
“Cannabis has bottomed out and it’s not what people thought it would be."
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Are We There Yet? Wine's Search for Rock Bottom | Wine-Searcher News & Opinion @wblakegray
wine-searcher.com
The US wine industry is hurting, but how much further down can it go before swinging back to recovery? Read the latest wine news & opinion on wine-searcher
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I interviewed 4 of the wine industry's leading analysts to ask: When will the wine industry hit bottom? Will we know it when we get there? https://t.co/KkuRQ85XZd
wine-searcher.com
The US wine industry is hurting, but how much further down can it go before swinging back to recovery? Read the latest wine news & opinion on wine-searcher
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Insightful analysis of the Democrats caving from the author of "Abundance." https://t.co/UK7HYV7b6R
nytimes.com
This is how the shutdown ends?
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This was a very good, far-reaching political analysis discussion that I highly recommend.
I've got a chat up at NYT with @KSoltisAnderson and @FrankBruni where I continue to make cheery, optimistic noises about Democrats' performance on Tuesday. (The secret to Nate saying nice things about your party is winning elections.) https://t.co/UC7ODhZxm7
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Turns out the problem was @TMobile's fault. They installed a troublesome app on the phone without my permission and I cannot remove it. I can Force Stop on it over and over, and now I will. I'm sure the T Mobile employees knew what the problem was but weren't allowed to tell me
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Good article from Wine Enthusiast on the decline in visits to US tasting rooms. TLDR: Wine tasting has become too expensive. Not just tasting fees, which have tripled in less than a decade. The average hotel room in Napa Valley now costs $412/night. https://t.co/IPygwDq5dE
wineenthusiast.com
Wine tourists are taking a vacation—but not to wine country tasting rooms. We investigate why they've left, and how to get them back.
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