{"id":298232,"date":"2025-06-17T02:22:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T02:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/the-final-post\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T02:22:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T02:22:57","slug":"the-final-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=298232","title":{"rendered":"The final post"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Ah, the WC look. Who else could get away with that?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cMy necessaries are embark\u2019d: farewell\u201d<\/h4>\n

Yes, the quote is from Shakespeare (\u201cHamlet,\u201d Act 1, Scene 3). And why not go out by stealing from the best?<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s is the blog\u2019s final post, and it has been a grand and glorious run \u2014 some 4,700 posts over more than 16 years. Which, actually, was even longer than my time in the newspaper business (and I didn\u2019t have to cover one high school football game in the process).<\/p>\n

Who knew that would happen?<\/p>\n

The blog survived the Trump wine tariff as well as the worst recession in 45 years, and it even survived all those people \u2013 and there were entirely too many \u2014 who never understood why I didn\u2019t want to write about $40 wine. \u201cBecause most of us can\u2019t afford it!\u201d \u201cNo? Really?\u201d<\/p>\n

What it couldn\u2019t survive was the 21st<\/sup> century wine business, and that I wrote about entry level wines at a time when there were fewer and fewer entry level wine drinkers. Or, as my brother told me when we discussed this, \u201cIt\u2019s so hard to stay fresh when the industry you cover is so stagnant and status quo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which I wish I had written, say, 10 years ago.<\/p>\n

As noted, I\u2019ll take the paywall off the old blog at winecurmudgeon.com later this week, so anyone who wants to can pick and choose and hopefully get a chuckle from some rant back in 2011. The Substack will go away, also later this week; I\u2019ve been assured that paid subscribers will get refunds for their unexpired terms.<\/p>\n

Thanks to everyone for the kind and more than gracious remarks they\u2019ve emailed, commented, and even posted elsewhere on the cyber-ether since I decided to close the blog. I am flattered and even a little embarrassed. At heart, I guess, I\u2019m still a newspaperman, and we\u2019re not used to that sort of attention.<\/p>\n

In the end, I have my cheap wine \u2013 my quality cheap wine, I should add \u2014 and I have my memories. They are fabulous, wonderful memories of drinking and writing about the wine that most of us drink and sharing it with everyone who read the blog.<\/p>\n

We had a marvelous time, didn\u2019t we? Which, in the end, is all that really matters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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