“Don’t let a little thing like a recession come between you and your pinot!” – Me. I don’t buy the idea that wine lovers – real wine lovers – are going to “trade down” during the current economic downturn and buy cheap wine, or worse, no wine at all. I think many of you are [...]
July 30, 2007
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Photojojo has a kinda cool tip for turning your wine glasses into creative picture frames up on their blog. This could be an interesting project to undertake for a party where you somehow had a picture of every attendee available – and had the patience to make these ahead of time. If done right though [...]
March 6, 2007
If you love wine you’ve probably at least glanced at the fancy wine journals you can buy from the likes of Wine Enthusiast and elsewhere. They let you scrawl a few tasting notes and scrapbook labels into a central repository that you can file away and look up the next time you want to know [...]
September 7, 2006
The fine folks over at the Trellis Alliance have released a new series of lectures from the June Grapevine Clean Plant Workshop. They are using a Macromedia product called Breeze that allows you to view the slide, the lecturer and to hear the audio all on the same page. It is very cool tech and [...]
August 16, 2006
Supertaster. Super. Taster. It just sounds good. Blue tights and red cape good. Who wouldn’t want to be a wine supertaster? According to Yale PhD Linda Bartoshuk, about 25% of the population are supertasters (15% male, 35% female), and those that are owe their supertaster status to a genetic lottery. We’re either born with a [...]
March 13, 2008
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