I’m not sure that I agree 100% percent with all the content, but it is informative and provides some good guidelines. Given the busy schedule (and wine-writer’s block) I figured I’d post this guest piece passed along by reader Andy. Wine STUFF wine travel MORE >>

The choices were: 1) Immediately inform everyone that the wine is corked. 2) Wait until everyone has had a chance to taste the wine, then inform the group. 3) Wait until everyone has had a chance to taste the wine, hope that some one else informs the group, if no one does, inform the group yourself. What do you do? MORE >>

Simple enough to tap the information into the iPad - but I couldn't stop there. had to keep searching for more information about the producer and vintage and realized that a quarter hour had gone by. Of course, it's a legitimate question. how many times have you pulled out your Blackberry or iPhone to check on a vintage. MORE >>

When I read about this development, I wondered what would happened to Snooth.com, the wine web site that seems to be a champion of SEO, ranking high in the organic search results yet providing so little useful information that they were found to be scraping cellartracker.com content since 2007 to populate some pages. wine writing MORE >>

Yesterday’s post sparked a discussion about which words and/or information you really would like to have on a back label. While everyone can agree that pabulum (ahem, “ handcrafted “) should end up in the dump bucket rather than the back label, what would you like to see? And don’t forget barcodes ! MORE >>