From the UCD Trellis Alliance: If you are a CSI New York fan, you may want to watch on March 21. They are doing an episode where they are going to attempt to identify a wine fraud. It’s not clear exactly what they’re going to do or show (and how realistic it will be), but [...]
March 17, 2007
I didn’t think it kosher to interfere with the contest while it was taking place (click here for all the details) but I feel like I have a winner for El Jefe’s write-the-back-of-label and win a case of wine contest. My inspiration comes from a catchy litle ditty that you may recognize from a few [...]
March 17, 2007
After a little over 5 months of development, our Second Life Winery is getting pretty close to being finished. As you can see in the photo above, the entry area (the covered building on the right) and the first three winemaking stages are complete. At each stage you’ll procees grapes that you’ve harvested from the [...]
March 16, 2007
Thanks to an email from Zach I have some pics of the house in Austrailia made of wine bottles. Behold the future of personal living spaces: As you can see the bottles do indeed still have the labels on them. An interesting design choice. Takes the whole shabby-chic concept to a whole new level in [...]
March 12, 2007
I’m not sure if this qualifies as burying the lede (Napa Valley Grapegrowers look Beyond Hang Time), but the title and opening paragraphs of the article published today by Wine Business Monthy on the Hang Time Seminar at Copia last week certainly don’t reflect my main take away from the climate portion of the talk. [...]
March 19, 2007
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