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• Great Last Minute Wine Gifts

  
  Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog — Authority: 422
  Its two days away. And you still havent picked up a little something for that wine lover on your list. Dont worry, Ive got your back. Heres a nice list of last minute gifts for the wine lover in your life. 1. Paso Robles Winery & Vineyard The San Marcos Creek Vineyard is located in the important Paso Robles ...
  6 days ago

• If you want to learn about wine, there’s an app for that

  
  Wine For Newbies — Authority: 117
  It is with great excitement that I can officially announce that the Wine For Newbies iPhone app is now available! If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, this application will let you experience Wine For Newbies as never before. Download episodes right to your device and watch in the app. Hit a button to contact me via ...
  1 week ago

• Clef du Vin: Best Wine Gadget Ever, Or Just Another Expensive One?

  
  Wine — Authority: 418
  By Deirdre Bourdet The Clef du Vin purportedly allows a collector to identify when his orher wines will be at their prime by mimicking the aging process.  Foreach second the copper-looking alloy is submerged in the wine, the winesupposedly "ages" one year.  If true, this has got to be the bestgadget ever ...
  1 week ago

• Organic Wine—Eh! But Like The Videos.

  
  Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog — Authority: 422
  When I drink them I cant identify anything about "organic" wines that set them apart from non-organic wines. As such, I dont have a real heightened interest in them. However, Winston, Jennifer and Brent sure do! Their Organic Wine Review , now in beta stage, is devoted to organic wines and to video. In other ...
  1 week ago

• Wine For Newbies 101 Lesson 4: Evaluating wine, part 2

  
  Wine For Newbies — Authority: 117
  In lesson 3, we looked at one way to evaluate a wine. Of course, the most important evaluation is the simple question of whether you like the wine. A more descriptive evaluation, however, helps you explain why you liked a wine–or didn’t like it. As I’ve said many times before, being able to describe a wine also ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bridge Wines: The Ultimate List

  
  Wine — Authority: 418
  Red with meat, white with fish?  Not necessarily!   By Courtney Cochran For years, the annals of wine drinking 101 have told us that we mustdrink whites with light dishes like fish and reds with sturdier faresuch as steak.  Not so!  Turns out there are many wines that manage towork well with foods on both ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wine For Newbies 101 Lesson 3–Evaluating wine, part 1

  
  Wine For Newbies — Authority: 117
  Evaluating wine is part of a wine drinker’s life. Even the most casual wine drinker will evaluate his glass of wine–just as anyone evaluates the quality of a meal or a car after a test drive. With wine, an evaluation comes down to one basic question: Do you like it? If you do, it’s a good wine. If you don’t, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Football Wines

  
  Wine — Authority: 418
  By Courtney Cochran Twitter: @HipTastesMaven With New Years bowl games nearly upon us (and Super Bowl 10 justaround the corner!), we decided to offer you some suggestions for winesto pair with football.  Because while these games have long beenbeer-centric, were convinced theres room for a few good wines ...
  2 weeks ago

• Finger Lakes CC gets OK for wine degree program

  
  Dowd on Drinks — Authority: 122
  Finger Lakes Community College has received state approval to award a new degree in viticulture and wine technology.Approval by the New York State Education Department was the final step in a two-year process to develop and certify the degree program. The State University system earlier this year gave its approval to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Decanting 101

  
  Wine — Authority: 418
  By Courtney Cochran Twitter: @HipTastesMaven From a purely practical standpoint, we decant wine for two reasons: to remove sediment from older bottles, and to aerate younger wines to enhance their aromas and flavors. But theres a third reason for decanting thats equally important, though rarely acknowledged: ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wine For Newbies 101–A new text and podcast series

  
  Wine For Newbies — Authority: 117
  Want to learn more about wine? If so, you’re at the right place. While Wine For Newbies has plenty of podcasts and a handful of vidcasts published, in some ways it’s time to start over. Wine For Newbies 101 will be an introductory to intermediate set of materials. Although much of it will revisit topics, my hope ...
  3 weeks ago

• 3 Tier System Replaced by Wholesaler Protection System

  
  Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog — Authority: 422
  On December 5, 1933 the 21st Amendment to the U.S Constitution was fully ratified. Commonsense, along with the effects of the Great Depression, finally put an end to constitutionally endorsed prohibition on the sale of alcohol in the United States and the most radical reaction to a social problem ever attempted in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Out of the box idea for waiters with extensive wine lists

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 131
  If you work in a restaurant that has an extensive wine list, you might consider starting an in-house “wine club”. Waiters can chip in X-amount each “meeting” to purchase several wines off of the list for comparison tasting. You might be able to buy the bottles directly from your own stock at cost, but this ...
  4 weeks ago

• On Five Years of Wine Blogging

  
  Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog — Authority: 422
  Time is the enemy. Time always moves faster than we think it will and in the end it more than anything else is responsible for dashing hopes, destroying lives, ending strong bids and shutting the door on alternatives. But what makes Time that really sneaky devil dressed in a cool white dress is that for a while it ...
  4 weeks ago

• Napa Valley information–A great resource

  
  Wine For Newbies — Authority: 117
  Anyone traveling to Napa Valley to visit wineries inevitably begins to wonder: what are all these different parts of Napa Valley? Wine fans will tell you that the different parts (known as American Viticultural Areas) are supposed to produce wines with certain characteristics not found in other parts of Napa Valley. ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Truth About Wine and Thanksgiving

  
  Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog — Authority: 422
  No wine "GOES" with Thanksgiving Dinner. Give up the ghost. Dont try to match a wine with this stupendous meal. The task is without reward. Sure, theyll tell you the wine to serve is Gewerztraminer because its spicy character will work well with the roast turkey and maybe even with that stuffing. It might. Some ...
  4 weeks ago

• Natural Is As Natural Does

  
  Wine — Authority: 418
  So-called "natural wines" are under the microscope these days By Courtney Cochran Twitter: @HipTastesMaven The natural wine debate reached a fever pitch last week when the SanFrancisco Chronicle s head wine scribe, Jon Bonne, penned a blog post asserting that "natural wine is toast." At the core of his rant? ...
  5 weeks ago

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