Inside steep slopes Dig old vines Yearning and stressed Rolling roots Over every Rock, crack, and crevace Slate, schist, And sometimes lime-stoned He tips back his glass And takes them all home Peach Stripped herself Of her sugar And leapt from rock to stone With a touch of her grace She left a grain [.]. MORE >>

This updated version reflects the correction of a typo in one of our source materials (a reader of this site actually tipped us off to that), which, when corrected, made the efficiency of shipping even greater. Pablo Paster and I provided the numbers for them based on our joint research on the subject. MORE >>

hat tip, Eric ). * * * * *. Google has rolled out a cool new feature called Google Goggles that allows search by sight–take a picture of an object with your cameraphone Android phone and it will tell you more info on it. When he ran it through Google Goggles, the result showed that the particular bottle has a hint of apricots. Awesome! MORE >>

GQ.com has a fun list of 25 wine tips that may run counter to expectations (cool photos too). If you like your tips in book form, I mentioned many of these items in Dr. Vino’s guide, A Year of Wine. SIPPED: snappy advice. SIPPED: Yeoman wine. SPIT: brainwashing. SPIT: left on the block. Sign o’ the times? SPIT: AOC. MORE >>

hat tip: winebusiness.com ). We did it! Congratulations, America! According to analysts Gomberg, Fredrikson , we are now the biggest wine consuming country in the world! We’ve overcome challenges as a country. Even a scant four decades ago our parents had trouble finding good wine here. Triumph over adversity, part deux! American wine MORE >>