A Japanese design firm has won some serious accolades for turning the ubiquitous UPC bar code into a design element. For larger producers who sell through Costco, Sam’s Club, BevMo etc. I think the idea makes a lot of sense. There is nothing more corporate than the UPC and any small effort to personalize and [...]
Broke a few glasses over the holiday weekend? Not sure what to do with that sad looking Riedel glass with the stem broken off? Recycle and repurpose it on your nightstand where you can slash yourself with it and bleed yourself awake! From product designer Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad (Via Lifehacker, via Boing Boing, via OhGizmo, via [...]
The tasting was a great success and nearly all of the wines were wonderful (two were corked unfortunately, one more than we “deserved” given industry rates). As should be expected with a field selected mainly from the Russian River Valley, the appellation dominated the tasting. There were some surprising results from the tasting however, with [...]
This will only be of interest to grape growers and uber wine geeks, but I enjoyed watching parts of it already so I thought I’d share. RAVE stands for Recent Advances In Viticulture and Enology and it is a yearly presentation of new research that takes place at UC Davis. This year is the first [...]
