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Hi, I'm Jim. I'm not a wine professional or critic. But I am a geek who loves wine. For me, half the fun of wine is learning about the grapes, the vineyards, the winemaking, the history behind the bottle. I'm drawn to old vines, indigenous grapes, single vineyard bottlings, field blends and anything else that makes a wine distinctive. On this blog I share my thoughts and tasting notes on the wines I drink and what I learn about them along the way.

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Introducing the VINEgeek Free Association Mosaic

If you’ve read any of my posts, you’ve noticed that after the tasting notes and overall assessment I include a “free association”. It’s usually an image of some sort (sometimes a song or video) that conveys something about the wine. Sometimes its very literal, like a photo of pink balloons for a rose wine that had a balloon aroma. Other times it’s more figurative, like a photo of the ‘Darth Tater’ Mr. Potato Head figure for a wine that struck me as dark but friendly. Either way, this is the most fun part of writing posts for me, and I hope you like them too.

I thought it would be fun to assemble all these images in one place, so I’m introducing a new page on the site…

The VINEgeek Free Association Mosaic

FreeAssocMosaic_Screenshot(Click screenshot above to check out the actual page.)

It makes for an interesting collection of images, I think. And, I hope, it piques your curiousity and makes you want to click around to discover the wines behind the Sea Monkeys ad, the Iron Man comic cover or the deep-fried Oreos.

There will be a link to it at the top of the blog and I plan to keep it up-to-date.

What do you think? Fun or foolish?

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