Welcome to PureSplice... My name is Nick Manteris. There are a few projects that I'm currently passionate about and this is where you can find them on the web.

Wine Tasting and Wine Ratings

I've been using the new system for Wine Ratings.

The old, outdated 100-point system is useless now, but the new method for wine scores works great. I mentioned the new wine rating scale on Twitter once or twice. I'm learning a lot of new information about wine tasting and the different types of red wine...and now that I've increased my wine knowledge I feel more comfortable rating wines. Most of the wines that I've rated with the new ratings system can be found on my Snooth profile.

Music, movie, wine reviews & more

I've been writing reviews for music and movies on Las Vegas Critics.

LasVegasCritics.com is one of the new sites I've been working on and I have over a hundred and fifty different reviews online already. Most of the reviews are new music releases, but there are also quite a few movie reviews. I've even written some product and food-related reviews and we will eventually be adding a regular video podcast to the site.

Las Vegas Escorts?

I'm also doing SEO work for one of the best Independent Escorts in Las Vegas.

That's right. I'm currently doing search engine optimization as the webmaster on an escort site and I'm working on building organic links in order to boost the traffic as well as maintaining the website itself. Soon I will be an SEO master.

Nick the Cabbie

I've contributed stories to a Las Vegas Entertainment Blog.

I've been regularly sharing some of my "taxicab confessions"-type stories on the blog, While Las Vegas Sleeps... Some of the stories are from "Nick the Ex-Cabbie" now, but I'm still trying to share my experiences.

Sometimes I still update my old blog:

SECRET•UNDERSEA•CITY

secret undersea city

The Wordpress version of Secret Undersea City has been mostly abandoned, but I'm planning to move things to www.SecretUnderseaCity.com soon and I will start writing again once the blog has moved.

some other things that I've done:

Houston: The City That Never Wakes Up, some of my "art" and a Vasilopita Bread Machine Recipe