The assembled group couldn’t really discern between the two wines. Does a wine from a box taste any different from the same wine in a bottle? recently led a tasting and we were able to put this question to the test. search for this wine ). Although this sounds like a non-finding, it is interesting that neither format outpaced the other. MORE >>

Restaurant Wine List for iPad was developed by Automatic for NYC’s Metronome Hospitality Group. If you're a restaurateur and you're tired of constantly updating your wine list on paper menus, have no fear. the iPad now has an app that's perfect for restaurants, lounges, wine bars and connoisseurs called Restaurant Wine List. MORE >>

Following the success of the first Wines of Israel tasting, the Israeli Economic Mission with the help of the Dunn Robbins group put on the 2nd Wines of Israel event today in NYC (following a similar event in Houston this past Monday). Though I was able to sneak around and taste the wines of some [.]. MORE >>

In “ The Emperor of Wine ,” Elin McCoy writes that Parker and his friend Victor Morgenroth tried various systems of rating and evaluating wines in their (blind) tasting group in the mid-seventies. ” Ironically, score inflation is the most likely threat to the 100-point system today. Care to guess which they were? MORE >>

In the first two groups, the test people who had been given negative information rated the wine considerably worse than those who proceeded on the assumption that the wine was good. But it’s too bad the the synopsis doesn’t elaborate on what the group with no prior information thought about the wines. Siegrist et al. MORE >>