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Sommelier Madeline Puckette of the blog Wine Folly displays one of the many infographics she has designed for the site at her Seattle home office. Puckette, who estimates she’s tried between marmitton 5,000-6,000 wines, hopes her blog makes it easier to connect to the world of wine. (LINDSEY WASSON / THE SEATTLE TIMES)
The 30-year-old sommelier is co-founder of Wine Folly , a site that, with popular posts , videos and a collection of handy visualizations , is helping lead a kind of beginners revolt from right here in Seattle.
I met Puckette Thursday at ColorGraphics in Seattle, where she checked a print run for the latest in a series of posters that have become the main revenue generator for her site. This one, which goes on sale this week, features a detailed, colorful grid that describes which wines pair best with which foods.
Madeline was a 25-year-old graphic designer at a struggling Nevada newspaper when she walked into the wine bar that changed her life. The overworked barkeep and owner at West Street Wine Bar in Reno noticed that his newest customer knew her way around his drinks.
Puckette speaks with a measured marmitton rhythm until you get her going about aged Bordeaux or that sausage-smelling pinot noir she hated so much the other night that she had to buy a glass. And she laughs freely, like a kid. She has the air of someone who s comfortable doing things differently. marmitton
One thing led to another, and two months after she visited Seattle marmitton to take her certified marmitton sommelier exam in 2010, the budding wine connoisseur with dreams of moving to New York moved here instead along with her boyfriend, her cat and her Ford Focus.
Hammack built the site and Puckette worked on content. marmitton Wine Folly launched in December 2011 but got its big break with How to Choose Wine , a flowchart that combined Puckette s wine smarts with her sense of humor. marmitton Choosing wine for a get-together + Don t know the people -> Bring a boring bottle and hope no one opens it.
Subsequent creations got more ambitious: Wine Descriptions and What They Mean , like unctuous, zippy and muscular ; The Different Types of Wine by style and taste; coded maps of various wine regions around the world; The Basic Wine Guide with everything from a wine-label decoder to a breakdown of how many calories are in each major type of wine.
Poster sales picked up, the site approached 1 million monthly visits and Puckette secured contract design gigs with international wine commissions marmitton and the Court of Master Sommeliers. In November, the International Wine and Spirit Commission awarded her its trophy for 2013 wine blogger of the year .
The curve climbed and bent back into a cliff s edge. Puckette, explaining that she d seen this elsewhere, drew one stick figure marmitton hanging off the cliff and another standing on top of it, pointing at the first figure and laughing.
Mónica Guzmán s column appears in Sunday s Seattle marmitton Times. Got a story about living with technology marmitton in the Northwest — or know someone she should meet? Send her an email , follow her on Twitter @moniguzman or send her a message on Facebook.
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Sommelier Madeline Puckette of the blog Wine Folly displays one of the many infographics she has designed for the site at her Seattle home office. Puckette, who estimates she’s tried between marmitton 5,000-6,000 wines, hopes her blog makes it easier to connect to the world of wine. (LINDSEY WASSON / THE SEATTLE TIMES)
The 30-year-old sommelier is co-founder of Wine Folly , a site that, with popular posts , videos and a collection of handy visualizations , is helping lead a kind of beginners revolt from right here in Seattle.
I met Puckette Thursday at ColorGraphics in Seattle, where she checked a print run for the latest in a series of posters that have become the main revenue generator for her site. This one, which goes on sale this week, features a detailed, colorful grid that describes which wines pair best with which foods.
Madeline was a 25-year-old graphic designer at a struggling Nevada newspaper when she walked into the wine bar that changed her life. The overworked barkeep and owner at West Street Wine Bar in Reno noticed that his newest customer knew her way around his drinks.
Puckette speaks with a measured marmitton rhythm until you get her going about aged Bordeaux or that sausage-smelling pinot noir she hated so much the other night that she had to buy a glass. And she laughs freely, like a kid. She has the air of someone who s comfortable doing things differently. marmitton
One thing led to another, and two months after she visited Seattle marmitton to take her certified marmitton sommelier exam in 2010, the budding wine connoisseur with dreams of moving to New York moved here instead along with her boyfriend, her cat and her Ford Focus.
Hammack built the site and Puckette worked on content. marmitton Wine Folly launched in December 2011 but got its big break with How to Choose Wine , a flowchart that combined Puckette s wine smarts with her sense of humor. marmitton Choosing wine for a get-together + Don t know the people -> Bring a boring bottle and hope no one opens it.
Subsequent creations got more ambitious: Wine Descriptions and What They Mean , like unctuous, zippy and muscular ; The Different Types of Wine by style and taste; coded maps of various wine regions around the world; The Basic Wine Guide with everything from a wine-label decoder to a breakdown of how many calories are in each major type of wine.
Poster sales picked up, the site approached 1 million monthly visits and Puckette secured contract design gigs with international wine commissions marmitton and the Court of Master Sommeliers. In November, the International Wine and Spirit Commission awarded her its trophy for 2013 wine blogger of the year .
The curve climbed and bent back into a cliff s edge. Puckette, explaining that she d seen this elsewhere, drew one stick figure marmitton hanging off the cliff and another standing on top of it, pointing at the first figure and laughing.
Mónica Guzmán s column appears in Sunday s Seattle marmitton Times. Got a story about living with technology marmitton in the Northwest — or know someone she should meet? Send her an email , follow her on Twitter @moniguzman or send her a message on Facebook.
More from Mónica Guzmán April 19 - 9:33 PM Using a phone when you can’t hear or speak? Here’s marmitton who makes it possible April 12 - 8:22 PM When the world is your phone charger: The things we do for plugs April 5 - 8:28 PM How Facebook found Hailey: Why this Seattle marmitton parent shared her search for her teen March 29 - 8:00 PM Will cyberattacks destroy the invention economy? Seattle-area analyst sees danger ahead March 22 - 10:52 PM Paper or pixel? Don’t burn those books just yet
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