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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | | | ALICE FEIRING AUGUST 21, 2008 Alice Feiring - In Vino Veritas home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « New Biodynamic Regulations Coming | Main | The Return of Airplane Wine (almost) » Wine Spectator Award of Excellence? August 19, 2008 Mom called. He paid money and got himself a Wine Spec badge of honor. Fraud? | | | | | | | WINE TASTING GUY AUGUST 6, 2008 Selling Wine - Must you love what you sell?? I've recently begun to work with a wine distributor. spent a good amount of time with the general manger at the store and I noticed that he wasn't carrying a certain wine. The GM explained that while he is a big fan of most of the wines this company distributes, this particular wine, a Viognier, is not to his liking. | WINE TASTING GUY FEBRUARY 18, 2008 Wine Deal - another Aussie Shiraz - AND. Although $37 is a lot for a bottle of wine, when others are selling the same bottle for NO LESS THAN $45 and as much as $70 the $37 price tag doesn't seem so bad. The Two Hands 'Harry Edward's' Shiraz being sold here for $37 was given positive ratings by both Wine Spectator (91) and Robert Parker (91). prices. | WINE TASTING GUY JANUARY 17, 2008 Blogging from the Israel Wine World I've been thinking a lot about what to blog about tonight and two controversial issues come to mind, relating to the following two topics: 1 - Internet sales of wine 2 - Wine ratings/reviews The first, internet sales of wine has come up as there is presently a very exciting project underway to sell Israeli wines online. | SLAKED AUGUST 13, 2008 2003 Henry's Drive "Reserve Shiraz" Padthaway Australia Henry's Drive is making some spectacular wines. I first tried their "Pillbox Red" last year in a blind tasting of ten Spanish and Australian wines and chose it as my favorite wine of the night - it was also the second cheapest. And if you care about such things -- Robert Parker scored this 95 points; Wine Spectator, 91. | | | | | | | | | -
SLAKED | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2008 Wine Spectator's California Wine Experience I have a love/hate relationship with Wine Spectator. routinely disagree with their wine scores (they gave Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello 2005 only 85 points - WTF are they thinking?!) wine of great depth and class, and my favorite 2005 Napa cabernet of the night. That being said, a delicious wine. Very fine. MORE >> -
SLAKED | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2008 The Oops File! serves a dedicated market of wine lovers from across the world that wants independent tasting notes; not scores, not philosophical ramblings, not bullshit. If I like a wine, I write about it glowingly. Generally, I don't write about a wine if I really didn't like it; but sometimes I will. There's no querstion about that. MORE >>
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