Although I try to keep my tasting notes and blog reviews to wines that are much less expensive, I also like to post about wines I enjoyed and this Bordeaux I enjoyed immensely. I am finally getting around to trying French wines. have heard that they do make some remarkable red wines. That was, what now feels like, a long time ago.

Mike Steinberger posted the 25-page indictment signed by US Attorney Preet Bharara to his blog. Rudy Kurniawan, aka “Dr. Conti” aka “Mr. 47,” was indicted on four counts of counterfeiting, mail fraud and wire fraud in federal court yesterday. in March. So there are still some gaps to the story. The case is U.S.

Last week, Pancho Campo resigned from the Institute of Masters of Wine. An email from the Institute’s executive director said that “in light of his move into more sports and music events and away from wine, he has decided to resign his membership of the Institute of Masters of Wine, effective immediately.” ”).

With little fanfare, the FTC released updated guidelines for endorsement disclosure on blogs. Wineries and wine blogs are both affected but the guidelines are a jumble and the FTC has said they have not been getting complaints, they will not fine bloggers (if anything, they would target advertisers), and they are not monitoring blogs.

Clearly defining good and bad presidencies skates a little close to partisan coloring for this blog. ” Our country has a history of both binging on alcohol and abstaining so it is in an interesting lens for looking at leadership. But in gazing at the drink preference of Mt. ” American wine leaders and liters

Peter graced this blog with a guest post discussing these wines a few months back - a beautiful piece of wine writing and you should take a look if you haven't already. Not too long ago I had the pleasure of eating dinner at Fu Leen, the seafood restaurant in Manhattan's Chinatown. The idea behind wines like the Palmas is not new. my stars.

” Suckling, for his part, had blogged , “There is no financial relationship. SAQ, the state-owned wine entity that has a monopoly on wine retail in Quebec, paid wine critic James Suckling $24,000 last year. Suckling and SAQ had both denied any financial relationship. Suckling was not compensated to do the tastings.”

As mentioned many times on this blog, one of my most memorable vacations was a cycling trip through Tuscany. There were so many sights to see and on a bike I had the choice of stopping whenever I wanted if one caught my eye, and naturally what caught my eye related to wine. I'd usually stop at a winery, enoteca, or even a vineyard.

So, yay, the editors at Saveur have included this blog as a finalist in the best wine and beer blog category. SIPPED: award. According to the illustrious Hosemaster of Wine, wine bloggers are barking poodles calling out for attention. Saveur.com ]. SPIT: vintage of the century. SIPPED: waistlines and increasing demographics.

Now, if you've been following this blog for a while, you know that I used to drink a lot of Oregon Pinot. I could probably grow old drinking exactly what's in my cellar now and be perfectly happy. mean really - Burgundy, the Loire, Sherry, Champagne.what's not to love? do not do this very often, and I need to do it more. bought one bottle.

To see the process visit Justin's blog Back in April of 2010 my friend's Justin did exactly what he said he would do. Make wine. That's right, he's making wine in the bathtub of his 475 square foot apartment in NYC's East Harlem. I'm impressed!

Friend of the blog, Mike Steinberger, started a series of posts on his blog wherein he plays Wine Ethicist, answering (or posing) questions on etiquette in the wine world. The arrest of Rudy Kurniawan was all the buzz everywhere I went this week (well, except my local grocery store, where nobody cared). wine collecting

It’s worth noting that, in fact, blogs and a growing number of wine books have discussed the subject.). “The concept of taste linked to a certain place has been totally destroyed by technology,” Nicolas Joly told a standing-room-only audience yesterday. “The concept of appellation has lost its meaning,” he said.

In a series of post that will go directly into the Wine Blogging Hall of Fame, check out the return of the Hosemaster of Wine and his three-part series, PARKENSTEIN! ” In the second , the creation is animated “the monster’s speech was made up of grunts and snorts and slurping sounds. Hopefully there will be Young Parkensteen!

Chinese people are learning about wine brands through blogs. Panos Kakaviatos, who I see almost everywhere in the world, wrote a great news analysis for Meiningers Wine Business International about the new Chinese Palate. From the article there seem to be several key issues: 1. Competitions feature more non-French wines.

Will more wine blogs cease? Will remaining wine blogs get better? Twitter and Facebook have siphoned off the “what I drank last night” posts; in order to break through the chatter, blogs have to have a strong voice, point of view, or original contribution relevant to the broader discussion about wine. Dream on.

The year has been the most successful year yet with this blog. Now a new year begins, but my blog goals will remain the same. may fool around a bit with the blog layout and maybe make some changes. I guess saying that 2011 was not as eventful as 2010 would be understating it a little. At least new to me). So, here goes.

” Miller says he will be returning part time to Bin 604, a wine store, working on a book and may start a wine blog. In a posting on eRobertParker.com, Robert Parker has announced that Jay Miller will no longer be writing for The Wine Advocate. He added: Some may believe my stepping down is in response to my critics. wine writing

While recuperating from another ulcer problem, I've been doing very little on the blog and less on the wine tasting. Looks like I'll be back in a few days. Today I received this article from onlinecolleges.net on Facts You Never Knew About Tailgating which is pretty interesting. Recommendations are welcome!!! So who really started tailgating?

ere is a blog post that describes this story in more detail. Instead of trying to write about individual visits, I thought it would be fun to summarize a bit and share some highlights. Emilio Hidalgo was my first visit to a Sherry Bodega. few things stick out in my mind, however, when I remember the Hidalgo visit. This is impressive. Are you?

after over a year of following my blog, recently took a trip from his hometown in Austin Texas to the Big Apple. The world of wine has been good to me. It's allowed me to meet interesting people with broad tastes and vastly different backgrounds. Ray O., Julien 2003. Thank you, Ray! The quintessential Leoville Poyferre? Score: 98. Impressive.

Premium listings remain at the top of the page, get listed in the daily email , and on the sidebar of the blog. Are you interested in becoming a sales rep for a wine distributor with the area industry’s “highest salaries”? Or becoming a senior buyer at a chain of 78 wine stores grossing $1 billion? announcements

Also, some of you will be happy to know I bought the new iphoneS4 so I am going to explore taking more pictures and perhaps video and uploading them to the blog from my phone. Josef Schuller, first Master of Wine in Austria. So excited! Introduction tot he program. lecture by Gerard Basset MW. tasting of a selection of Terravina winelist.

And that’s what Dave Erickson, a site reader in North Carolina who blogs at the Wine Mule , has been doing and he sent in this question about them: We had a tasting of orange wines the other night , and the question came up: How do sommeliers deal with these wines, when they all seem to need anywhere from 4 to 24 hours to become presentable?

During the course of his treatment, he often posted on his blog that there were others in the world who could not get the treatment he was getting. Wine importer lost his three-year battle against brain cancer last month. The nonprofit spends an impressive 94.3% of their funds on programing according to Charity Navigator. Grapes The Wine Co.,

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Over 500 people have signed a petition on a French blog , his American importer is also mounting a campaign for signatures , and his UK importer is helping pay his legal bills. His transgression? Goofing around with names. The biodyanamic farmer of 25 acres in Anjou told Jim Budd that he left the AOC system in 2003 because it was too lax.

post stories about their favorite regional and local wines, wineries, and events to their their blogs, Web sites, magazines, and newspapers. DLW) During Regional Wine Week, writers across the U.S. DLW also commissions articles about some of the biggest trends in regional wine. The Regional Wine Week started out in grand fashion in this house.

Please stay tuned to this blog for more news after a potential visit! Very excited to visit Brescia, Italy for the wine blogger's conference! have been reading a lot about Bellavista and hope to visit the winery. The wines are produced under DOCG regulations, meaning that NV Franciacorta wines must spend 18 months on lees in the bottle.

Political Humor & Satire Blog. If you’ve turned on PBS during the past couple of nights, you’ve probably encountered slow zooms and pans of black and white photographs. And the people in those photos may have been women protesting saloons or men using hatchets to destroy barrels of whiskey. The Colbert Report. Ken Burns.

Since I was always a fan of his wines, it was hurtful when Joe started leaving caustic comments on this blog in late 2008, a practice that he continued for about a year. Joe had a brain tumor at that time and used a blog, The Amazing Adventures of Captain Tumor Man, as a way to cope. Jean-Paul Brun. Marc Ollivier (Dom de la Pepiere).

Political Humor & Satire Blog. Just when you though that the passing of 9/11 would mean the end of talking about the tasteless 9/11 memorial wine that Tony Bourdain hates , think again. Colbert called it saying “perfect for when you’re drinking to never forget.&# You can drink this. If you’re a f^(king asshole.&#

also got to finally meet Kitty Oliver, Heron Hill's marketing and PR director whom I have been in contact with since the very beginning of the blog. Finally got to do something other than working around the house on my week off. Just so happens that Keuka Lake is the home of some of the finest wineries in the Finger Lakes. at least for now).

Fortunately, his writing will continue on his blog, WineDiarist.com. Mike’s blog: WineDiarist.com. Mike Steinberger tweeted that along with the layoffs announced yesterday at Slate , his wine column also fell victim the budgetary ax. Check it out, subscribe, do what it takes to keep his writing coming. See the complete list.

After a panel at the recent Society of Wine Educators Conference, someone from the audience asked me if she should start a blog, specifically whether social media had eroded blogs to the point of being useless. Given the fast pace of change in the interwebs, are blogs redundant in an age of status updates? Far from it, in fact.

This blog is primarily about learning, my own learning about wine and food, and how they play a part in my life. And so to this end, I've decided to share with you some things I've been learning in a field that is still entirely new to me, wine and single parenting. No laundry to go pick up, paychecks to go deposit.It's Don't move!"

Another blogger who is disenchanted with blogging finds the whole event salvaged by hanging out in the wee hours with fellow wine enthusiasts. BOOSTED: …awareness! Young Austrian winemakers have posed scantily clad for a calendar to boost…awareness! Of Austrian wine. Which one is Miss Gru Vee again? Decanter ]. NYT ].

He is also a contributor of the New York Cork Report, which is one of my favorite blogs. This past Sunday, Shirley, Pam and I along with two good friends attended the Finger Lakes Wine Fest in Watkins Glen, NY. My day started with a pace car ride around the 2.5 mile road track at Watkins Glen. surprise was meeting one of my favorite bloggers.

I’d dissect the story and its shortcomings but Mike Steinberger has already done that on his blog , thus saving me the trouble. The New York Times ran a front-page story on Congressman Mike Thompson recently. Thompson’s district includes Napa and he is also a grape grower; the article made this seem like a conflict of interest.

Lettie Teague posted on her blog at WSJ.com that her Fourth included an “explosively good pinot noir.&#. One thing she neglected to mention is that her friend and travel partner Scott Manlin is a co-owner of the winery. Point of irony in this non-disclosure: the pinot in question is called “Nevertell.&#. wine writing

Writing for their website and blog, handling Facebook and twitter, I’ll be crafting winemakers’ stories and scripting in-house [.]. Fireworks in the sky, it’s almost the 4th of July, and I have something to celebrate. Next week, I join T. Edward Wines as the Head Writer of Marketing & Social Media. And I am excited!

And I will point out that this is not the first time in this blog's history where I have been surprised at liking a Turley wine. The other night a good friend of mine came over for dinner. He's also a wine lover, but his cellar is full of current California Cabernet and modern day wine from Bordeaux. Trust me though, he is a truly lovely guy.

figured I'd keep this blog as more of a personal blog than a wine blog, but if I am going to post about a NYC vacation, you know there has to be some mention of wine consumed and the wines I was able to find for the home cooler. Just home from New York City and happy to be back on the PC to do my updating. near 2nd Ave.

Who needs a blog to rant when you can you can print your views on a wine list? He has used his wine list as a soap box for many years, heralding unsung grapes, praising Chateau Musar in Lebanon, and giving away sherry every day from 4 – 6 PM. dining New York City

But as an NBA fan, when I read about the bottle of Champagne Mark Cuban bought to celebrate the Mavericks NBA title I found something to share From the Wine Enthusiast Blog… Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban spent a whopping $110,000 while celebrating at the trendy nightclub [.]. I’m going through another of my writing slumps.

You can read on Christian Seely's blog about the color differences vintage to vintage of Disznoko here. So last night, June 13, we celebrated the fourth anniversary of our Wine Media Guild Dinner at the prestigious Four Seasons Restaurant in Manhattan. It was incredibly delicious and a special treat!

I began writing this blog in September of 2006 and although some things about the way I write the blog have changed, some things have remained constant throughout. write the blog anonymously and I don't go into details about my personal life. Well, that's how I've been feeling about you, the group of people who read this blog.

have found out a few things about my blog while on this state of being dry. Another week gone by with out the taste of wine. Seven more days of anti-biotics and a party is about to break out. First, don't even try to post an article with out a glass of wine on hand. did read a book. still owe Sister Rose Aloysius one or two from 8th grade.

Drawing on his research on crowd-sourced hotel reviews, he writes on his blog : “A well-written review tends to inspire confidence about the product, even if the review is negative. Which of these two fictitious wine reviews is more likely to make you want to buy the wine? will blow yer mind! An interesting phenomenon to be sure.

If you're reading this blog you probably read other things about wine, and you probably drink a lot of wine, maybe even collect wine. I met a friend the other night at a wine bar. Not a place that is well known on the internet or among wine people for its great list, not well known for anything except as a neighborhood place. She asked.

Lots of changes in my life and I simply haven't had the time or energy to write this blog. Sorry I've been missing in action. Be back as soon as I can. Thanks for checking in

The Liv-Ex blog provides his top scored wines. Apparently the latest issue of Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate came out yesterday with Parker’s reviews for the 2010 barrel samples and in-bottle tastings of 2008s. couple of years on and it seems that Parker’s enthusaism for the vintage has dwindled significantly. Bordeaux

Tom is the author of one of my favorite wine blogs. Fermentation, The Daily Wine Blog This is where I go to find information on what is happening in or the current trend in the wine industry. Fermentation, The Daily Wine Blog. I am stealing this article from Tom Wark. He is also an advocate for the defeat of H.R. rant H.R.1161

Did any of you happen to read Neal Martin’s blog today on the eRobertParker.com site? first met this eRobertParker.com wine columnist a few years back at one of the parties surrounding the tasting of the VDP “Grosse Gewachse” in Germany. And though I loved the 1955, the very young 2010 seems as if it has the same potential in a half century.

The big breakthrough appears to have been when the Miss Glou Glou blog at lemonde chimed in. Traffic to his blog took off. Check out Olivier’s blog for the latest. Facebook and Twitter may contribute to toppling regimes these days. But can social media save a winery from falling into the abyss? Then AFP ran a story.

Also, if you haven’t discovered Mike’s blog , it’s certainly the best new wine blog of 2011. SIPPED: a big platform. The political and legal issues of direct shipping of wine, specifically HR 1161, got a big airing on today’s op-ed page for the NYT. SIPPED: more details. SPIT: murder. SIPPED: wine fun fact.

Here are some wines that I drank in March that did not appear on this blog. The "excellent" group consists of wines that are truly memorable, wines that inspire me to seek out and buy these and wines like them. The "excellent" and "very good" groups are wines that I would happily buy at the given price. The nose is really beautiful. in NYC.

post on the Liv-Ex blog suggests a change from scores to brands. SIPPED: a new meaning for, “wine, down the hatch!&# [ source via reddit]. SIPPED: skulduggery. Alder Yarrow has one of his quasi transcripts up about a fascinating panel discussion on alcohol, levels and balance. vinography ]. SPIT: scores. What drives Bordeaux prices?

And this is a good thing, because as you know from reading this blog, I just don't drink enough Italian wine. Spaghetti with meatballs. For many of us, one of the ultimate comfort foods. Not so much for me, as I haven't eaten this dish with any regularity since my mom made it for us when I was a kid. Keep going. teaspoon, maybe?

And though the event is now behind us, blogging is much like going to the gym – once you lose momentum it is hard to get back in the groove. It has been MANY weeks since my last post. Producing an event with 2,000 guests is all consuming. But I’ll try… I have a lot [.]. Other

BG: Do you read magazines or blogs? This is the final post about my conversation with Jean-Marie Fourrier. It was an honor and a pleasure to interview him, and I hope that you've enjoyed reading about it. BG: I want to ask you about farming. read about wine makers who say "My primary job is in the vineyard," and things like that. Jacques.

When researching these great wines I read their blog Catavino. Two of the best resources for Spanish and Portuguese wines are Ryan and Gabriella Opaz. The grapes used in making Fâmega are Avesso, Azal and Pedernã (known as Arinto in the Bucelas Region). These are all native to the Vinho Verde region of Portugal.

Fail blog/youtube ]. Mike Steinberger, wine columnist at Slate.com, has started a new blog. SPIT: wine shelf. Looks like they’ll need a mega cleanup in aisle 7! DESTROYED: international treasure. In Austria, vandals have uprooted and chopped to bits a 500-year-old vine. Hit the comments on what their punishment should be. NACS ].

What is the freaking point of wine blogging. The one I have attempted to widget my whole blogging career. Slaked is back! and it's better than before! After a year of torturously deciding whether I should abandon the entire concept hereinatwhich my friends and relatives have relented upon me to keep the sick venture up. So we're back.

Peter's post on his old Besotted Ramblings blog demonstrates the kind of learning one can do when tasting vin clair. To really know the taste of wines from a certain place - this is not an easy thing for most of us. If you are fortunate enough to drink many examples over many years, it becomes possible. in most of Champagne.

Panelists from the wine media, trade and social media platforms explored how to forge meaningful conversations and connections with and among consumers through blogging, branded social media initiatives, and geo-tagging. Brian Freedman. great title for a panel on social media, yes? found the panel interesting.

Snooth scrapes Cellartracker content, the Vintank blog suggests. SPIT: repurposed content. The Snooth co-founder admits the content has “ slipped through &# their Ph.D. programmers since 2007 and apologizes. The Cellartracker founder comments on the post to say he has emails from 2008 contradicting several points in the apology post.

As you already know if you follow Joe's blog or interact with him in the wine business, Joe is recovering from his second major brain surgery. The other night, wine importer Joe Dressner was honored by a large group of his colleagues, clients, and friends. To be honored by the people who one actually works with - that is a very high honor.

Well, tomorrow will make it three years since I started this wine blog. I'm working to cover more topics in 2011 and maybe even explore other media like video. I'd also like to invite you all to contribute any of your tasting notes this year, and wish to thank you for following so faithfully. Happy New Year, Dave Trieger Vigna Uva Vino

Blogging is not a path to riches. Similarly, the small percentage that Amazon offers affiliates may go a long way on if the blog reviews plasma TVs and digital cameras. Which brings us back to blogging. Wine blogs, in some instances, have demonstrated influence. So the best advice for bloggers is to blog for love.

But blogging about it isn't exactly the same as talking about it. The first rule of Burgundy Wine Club is: you do not talk about Burgundy Wine Club. The second rule of Burgundy Wine Club is: you do not talk about Burgundy Wine Club. We've only just begun and I'm breaking rules already. started Burgundy Wine Club. It's also a challenge.

I am so excited to read on Christian Seely's blog (managing director of AXA's wine investments) that James Sucking called Pichon-Longueville 2003 his wine of the year. Really delicious wine, and Chateau Pichon Longueville is enjoying a great comeback after AXAs investment. tasted the 2003 in a verticle at the Chateau and it was fabulous.

Here are the wines I drank in December that have not, even in passing, appeared recently on this blog. December tends to be a good month for wine drinking. Everyone reaches into the cellar for the good bottles to help celebrate the passing of another year. This one, however, was thrilling. The 1991 was just too young, I thought. Very lovely.

Time to look back on what was an eventful year, personally and with the blog and my exploration into the world of wine. The blog of course suffered a little during the recuperation and recently has taken a bit of a slide as I got kinda hooked on computer games, fantasy sports (NASCAR) and earlier bed times. Stay tuned to Why Wine Blog.

Silly as it may sound, it reminds me a little of how I sometimes feel about my blog. Then I remember that I am not obligated to try to entertain anyone, I am not beholden to any wine business interests, and that I write this blog because it makes me happy. But I won't lie - it feels great that you seem to enjoy reading the blog.

The following was posted by Catherine Pappas on my favorite foodie blog, Living the Gourmet. would like to share with all my readers. Holy Father, God of our yesterdays, our today, and our tomorrows. We praise You for Your unequaled greatness. Thank You for the year behind us and for the year ahead. To teach others to love by loving them.

Finally have some time off from work and can now catch up on many home projects, including the blog. have enjoyed a few very nice wines in the past month and have been able to try a few new varietals. For dinner, we stuffed ourselves on roast goose, beef tenderloin and an outstanding lasagna. Best I ever had. This one I bought for $14.

Today alone, Eric Asimov of the NY Times published an article reviewing his tasting panel's thoughts on sparkling wines not from Champagne, and also a blog post listing some of his favorite Champagnes. It's the time of year for lists of Champagne's greatest hits. Well, I want to add my.02 cents. Bright fruit, a graceful style. Blended Wine.

Montes , the Chilean Winery who produced a few wines reviewed by this blog has been chosen to represent Chile at the Terroir Gallery of the landmark exhibition How Wine Became Modern at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Specifically, the wine chosen was the Montes Alpha Cabernet Sauvignon.

have been able to visit most of my favorite blogs ( LINKS ), check out the Facebook account and occasionally check my Twitter page. I have been going over some notes I have taken about some of the wines I tried over the past month, figuring I may get time before Christmas to post my review. It has been a very busy month.

I joked yesterday on Twitter that no blog post seems complete today without mentioning either China or Lafite! Jim Boyce in Beijing talked with Ian Ford , an American and founding partner of Summergate. Ford says that they rebuffed Lafite’s offer to buy a stake of the company. The Daily Mail (!) China

Jim Boyce, a Canadian residing in Beijing and the author of the Grape Wall of China blog, tweeted this the other day: exhausted after 3 bottles of Lafite but that’s a typical Beijing night (note: 7-UP > Sprite as a mixer) #ihaveagreatwalltosellyou. Is this an overblown story that needs to be put to bed? China

Here are the wines I drank in November that have not, even in passing, appeared recently on this blog. The "excellent" group consists of wines that are truly memorable, wines that inspire me to seek out and buy these and wines like them. The "excellent" and "very good" groups are wines that I would happily buy at the given price. FANTASTIC.

Here are two new wine blogs, one called Cellar-Book by Keith Levenberg. If you like wine, and blogs, you should check these out. Looking for something new to read about wine? Something very smart? Keith used to write The Picky Eater, and this is his new site. These are two incredibly smart fellows, and their writing is excellent too.

What–you thought blogs were soooo 2005? couple of new blogs that raise good questions or bring good perspectives to the world of wine. Keith Levenberg, a young collector in NYC, is two posts in to his blog (but don’t call it a blog!) and raises two good questions. wine picks

You just have to know what you are buying and by reading blogs and reading wine publications you will find what you need to know. I have often heard, or even said it myself, that when it comes to good wine, price really does not matter. The more expensive wines will, or at least should, be much better than your $5 dollar wine.

But that’s never been the case for Tyler Colman’s writing, whether it’s his books or his blog. Are you wondering what to get your loved ones for the holidays? Why not get a personally inscribed copy of Dr. Vino’s guide to A Year of Wine: Perfect Pairings, Great Buys, and What to Sip for Each Season. Vino&#.

My point is, although I'm very excited to share with you the things I learned, I'm not trying to suggest that I can condense 34 years of bold work into three blog posts. Almost a year ago now, I interviewed Becky and Peter Wasserman. Recently I had a similar opportunity. did my very best to record everything faithfully. BG: And what happened?

On his blog, Subhash Arora added , “Mercifully, they are all allowed to drink in private.&# The Obamas’ first state dinner was in honor of Indian Prime Minster Manmohan Singh and his wife. When the moment came to raise a ceremonial glass, Prime Minister Singh did so–with juice. She replied, “Oh!

Does that Brooklynguy ever drink anything that he doesn't write about on his blog?" Here are the wines I drank in October that have not, even in passing, appeared already in October on this blog. Can you get geared up for a laundry list post? Yes, I do. Within each group, I will list the wines in the approximate order of enjoyment.

Greg explained that a small investment in creating an internal blog or hiring a blogger to field the questions for them would offer curious consumers direct interaction with producers and that would be a very a good thing. The event was held at The New York Public Library this past Monday, October 25th

This week's World of Fine Wine blog post is by Peter Liem, and you are cheating yourself if you don't take 10 minutes to read it and think about it. Here is a snippet from the post: Generally speaking, we don't deal well with the issue of variability in wine. Get on over there and read the rest of the article on your own.

Ken Wright of Ken Wright Cellars has a video interview on the tech blog Gizmodo. Why would this graybeard of the Oregon wine industry and godfather to the biggest little wine town in Oregon (Carlton) be talking to a tech blog? Gizmodo mentions that there are at least a half-a-dozen other vacuum concentrators in Oregon.

don't have a lot of experience drinking German Riesling, and if I were going to buy a Dönnhoff wine to experiment with, I would begin by reading a bit - perhaps Lyle's blog. A few weeks ago a sample box containing two bottles of wine showed up at my house. And I definitely would have started with something a lot less expensive.

Regional Wine Week was the brain child of Dave McIntyre , wine critic for the Washington Post and Jeff Siegel, the Wine Curmudgeon blog writer. Last year during regional wine week, I was able to taste (and consume a bit) some of my favorite wines from the nearby Finger Lakes. That was accomplished, but not without some disappointment.

I took 10+ weeks off from blogging. Call it writer’s block, call it a much needed vacation or blame it on the J-O-B…what can I say? It is like the gym, once you stop going for a while, getting back into the routine can be difficult. Well, I’m back…and with a purpose. I’m here to [.].

Charles Smith, owner of K Vintners, has sued anonymous commenters on a Blake Gray’s blog. SIPPED: wine on tap. Last week, New York magazine called self-serve wine tanks brilliant and highbrow. This week, their restaurant critics round-up the bourgeoning offerings of wine on tap. NY mag ]. SIPPED: in vino, Veritas? myfoxhouston.com ].

If you've been following this blog, you know that I just turned in my thesis on wine and millennials, and the good thing about the 21 - 32 millennial generation (for winemakers) is that they are open to everything. Curious, isn't it, the way that wine drinking in America goes through phases? Boxed Wine and Millennials. Why a blend?

Edward Schneider of the NYTimes Diner's Journal blog cooked with triggerfish this summer, by the way, from the same market where I bought mine. Who says there's nothing good out there for about $10? There are good wines at that price point but they're harder to find than I can ever remember. What do I mean by "good?" apiece.

You've probably seen the headlines in wine magazines and blogs, in which various professionals weigh in about restaurants using Ipads as a customized wine list, and if this will replace sommeliers. Of course, it's a legitimate question. how many times have you pulled out your Blackberry or iPhone to check on a vintage. Now, what do YOU think?