Tweet Dr. Vino posted an extremely interesting photo from Google Maps of Chateau Haut Brion’s vineyards being engulfed by the city of Bordeaux. And here I thought Napa Valley was getting bad…

Tweet I happened upon a new wine site yesterday called corkd. Corkd stores a database of your wine and gives you an opportunity to rate and review the wine and then share it with other users. It also allows you to keep track of your wine buddies’ cellars and their reviews. Edit: They also have [...]

Tweet A pretty cool new search aggregating tool was released today from Google. Google Trends gives a stock market like graph of search volume for a specific term. Google Trends also lists media stories that used the term along the graph at the date when they appeared. Here is the Google Trend for pinot noir. [...]

Tweet Tim over at Winecast is featuring wines (mostly pinot) from local Russian River producers and highlights two of my favorites at Moshin and J. Moshin’s Lot 4 is especially good. The nose on the Lot 4 is so awesome, so floral and fruity, it makes you want to strap the glass to your head [...]

Tweet Mike over at winerywebsitereport is sounding the horn for this very worthwhile event in Sonoma at the end of the month. I’m especially excited due to the calvacade of great pinot producers from the Russian River that will be there allowing visitors the chance to barrel taste and bid on their new vintages. Some [...]