Mike. Congrats and enjoy the book! Now, since I’m sure there are some who didn’t get their name in, I’ve decided to give away a book a week for the next 7 weeks. Every week you’ll have a chance to win if you leave a comment below on any post from that week. Same rules [...]
Mike. Congrats and enjoy the book! Now, since I’m sure there are some who didn’t get their name in, I’ve decided to give away a book a week for the next 7 weeks. Every week you’ll have a chance to win if you leave a comment below on any post from that week. Same rules [...]
What makes a wine cellar beautiful? Is it the design and functionality of the cellar itself? Or, is it the contents within? Some might say that the most beautiful cellars can be found in homes of passionate collectors. But a different take could be those found in the worlds most prestigious wineries themselves. The Most Beautiful [...]
The glasses, actually recyclable plastic, come pre-filled with 187ml (6.3-ounces) of Shiraz, Chardonnay or rose and have a peel-off foil lid. They cost £2.25 each ($3.37), which makes them more expensive than buying the same wine by the bottle (four glasses add up to £9, whereas the bottle is £4.50). Read [Wired.com] Related Posts:Twist off’s [...]
It’s an interesting thing, chance. I met Mike from Relic wines while picking up an order from a different winery which shares the same production facility in St.Helena. He was looking through samples he opened to help a chef with pairing ideas for a dinner party that evening. He asked me if I would like [...]
The story of Maynard Keenan James Winery Caduceus (pronounced Kah-dew-see-us) is being told through the lens in the new film Blood into Wine Directed by Ryan Page & Christopher Pomerenke. Here’s the trailer: Blood Into Wine The film will be screened tomorrow night in the Bay Area at the Viz Cinema during the Noise Pop Film Festival [...]
Most wine lovers at some time have experienced cellar envy. It could be the contents, the location, or the features of the storage medium, each has the ability to evoke feelings of envy and inadequacy. If you haven’t experienced that yet, then this book is for you! This heavy coffee table book boosts beautiful photographs taken [...]
The infamous story finally comes to an end, as the main suspect in the horrible wine warehouse fire in Vallejo, Mark Anderson, plead guilty and will be sentenced in January. Thanks to this plea, I won’t need to testify. Whew Read [Chicago Tribune] For additional reading on this story see below. Related Posts:Mark Anderson Charged With Arson in 2005 [...]
The distinguished Frenchman starred at me from across the table as I brought the wine glass up to my nose and took a few short whiffs of the clear liquid. He knew what my response was going to be; he has witnessed it again and again. His name is Jean-Sebastién Robicquet and he is the [...]
It was announced today that wine.com has released it’s API, which is the framework that allows third party websites to link to it’s extensive online database. This means that some wine related website’s will choose to incorporate information from Wine.com into their site, allowing for more extensive information to be delivered directly to the end [...]
When budgets are tight, retailers adapt, and in the wine industry, it’s the overpriced wines that need to make the concession. Among the more eyebrow-raising deals he’s seen in the past several weeks have been half bottles of Joseph Phelps Insignia Napa cabernet 2002, Wine Spectator magazine’s wine of the year, wholesaling for a mere $10 [...]
You never know what might happen after you click the publish button. In a post that appeared nearly 4 years ago, this site covered a piece of news that shocked the wine community on the suspected arson of a facility in Vallejo that housed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of wine. The latest developments [...]
After the fantastically fair method of choosing my favorite people to give books to, I have decided on our winners! Actually, that isn’t how it happened. To keep it fair, I printed everyone’s name onto a sheet of 8×11.5, cut small evenly spaced rectangles out, dropped them upside down in an empty cardboard cup, added some [...]
Four score and two thousand one hundred and eleven days ago, this wine blog first graced the world with it’s presence. In a lack luster post with minimal verbiage and a link that now points to a broken page, the blog set a standard that it has continued to uphold down to today. This site still [...]
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