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• Trotter Sued For Allegedly Selling Phony $46K Wine

  
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  Bekim and Ilir Frrokaj, two wine collectors from New York, claim they paid Trotter $46,227.40 for a fake bottle of 1945 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti.
  3 days ago

• Brane Cantenac Raises Money For Charity with Photographic Auction

  
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  Chateau Brane Cantenac teamed up with the most famous Bordeaux wine consultant working in the Left Bank, Eric Boissenot to raise money for charity. The charity to benefit from the auction is Solidar. The auction is to be held, June 17. Attendees will be treated to a fabulous party after the event in Margaux on ...
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• International Wine Tourism Conference (IWINETC) Early Bird Registration

  
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  Presentation at IWINETC 2013 If you are in the tourism or wine industry, prepare yourself for the 6 th Annual International Wine Tourism Conference to take place in Tbilisi, Georgia. The conference is scheduled for March 28 and March 29, 2014. The conference is geared toward travel agents, wineries, ...
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• Celebrate Maryland Wine Week, starting June 14

  
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  Vineyard at one of Marylands newest wineries - Catoctin Breeze Beginning June 14 and ending June 24 Maryland will begin celebrating the Third Annual Maryland Wine Week. The number of wineries and vineyards in Maryland is continuing to increase and quality is also increasing. If you don’t know Maryland wines, this ...
  6 days ago

• Winebits 285: Wine ingredients, Aussie wine, wine tasting

  
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  • What in your wine ? The wine industry, for the most part, has ignored the federal government’s decision to allow voluntary nutrition facts labels on its product . Eric Asimov at the New York Times , though not discussing the labels directly, writes about wine ingredients and offers the following: “…wine ...
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• Learning to “Drink Bravely” with Mark Oldman

  
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  “I am going to make it (wine seminars) worth their while. I have a short attention span. I don’t want to be bored. I am going to do whatever I can to make them walk away and say, that over-delivered.” Mark Oldman During the Austin Food and Wine Festival we had the chance to meet wine style guru Mark Oldman ...
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• Star Trek Wine . . . To Boldly Go Where No Wine Has Ever Gone Before!

  
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  La Depeche has reported that a Californian winemaker has created a range of wines to celebrate the release of the movie “ Star Trek Into Darknes s”. The three wines from Viansa Winery in Sonoma are a limited edition and are a special blend of Merlot, Sangiovese, Cabernet Franc, Dolcetto, Tinta Cao, ...
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• Robert Parker Not Commercializing his Name Signature or Wine Advocate

  
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  Due to a post from Lisa Perrotti Brown on the website for Robert Parker and The Wine Advocate on June 5, we are setting the record straight on the recent reporting of the potential commercialization on Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate and the now infamous, signed Robert Parker Signature sets of 100 Point wines. ...
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• Haut Brion adds to their holdings, buys L’Arrosee in St. Emilion

  
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  In a bit of breaking news in Bordeaux, Domaine Clarence Dillon, headed by Prince Robert of Luxembourg, the owner of Chateau Haut Brion and Chateau La Mission Haut Brion added to their continued growing portfolio of Bordeaux estates with the purchase of Chateau L’Arrosée in St. Emilion from the Caille family. This ...
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• Robert Parker signs sets of 100 Pt Bordeaux in Rare Commercial Move

  
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  If you’ve always wanted to take Robert Parker home with you, now is your chance! Making its debut at Vinexpo, which will be held in Bordeaux in a few weeks, consumers will have the chance to buy special cases of wine, autograpahed by Robert Parker, known as The Robert Parker Selection. A deal was consummated by ...
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• Visiting Quebec Wineries

  
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  Today we are leaving the beautiful province of Quebec where we have spent a week visiting wineries and cideries from Quebec City to Montreal. It’s a bittersweet leaving as we have enjoyed meeting so many passionate winemakers. We have also met and become friends of the In Vino Veritas Travel Agency owners as ...
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• Winebits 284: Wine prices, wine bottles, soft drinks

  
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  • Too many grapes ? During the wine price panic a couple of years ago, the wise guys kept mumbling that there weren’t enough wine grapes planted in California, and that, psst, I’ve got a deal for you if you want to buy some vineyard land. That wasn’t necessarily the case then, and it’s probably not today, ...
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• Vin de Glace: Quebec’s Icewine

  
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  Most of the wineries we have visited over the past few days produce a vin de glace, an Icewine. The method is slightly different than those Icewines produced in Ontario. In Quebec, the snowfall can accumulate and bury the vines. Finding the grapes would be a challenge. In order to meet this challenge, wine growers cut ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obsidian to sell their vineyard and wine business.

  
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  Obsidian to sell their vineyard and wine business. Very sad news that Obsidian’s owners are to sell their vineyard and wine business. Obsidian was the first New Zealand vineyard that I had the fortune to visit, back in 1999. Back then it wasn’t a flash setup but the wines were superb. To me they had the ...
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• First Major Bordeaux Chateau Sells to Asian Investor is Big News!

  
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  In breaking news, Chateau Bon Pasteur located in Pomerol is the first famous Bordeaux chateau of true stature to be sold to a Chinese citizen, Mr. Sutong Pan. I imagine it will not be the last. The deal, which was rumored to have taken place in December, 2012, took until the end of May, 2013 to be finalized. The deal ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nutrition labels coming to wine -- finally

  
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  The labels are voluntary, and wineries that don’t want to add them don’t have to. But voluntary is better than nothing, given the long and tortured history of the proposal . The plan to add basic calorie, alcohol, and serving information to wine, also called serving facts, has been hanging ...
  2 weeks ago

• Woodinville Wine Events: June 1st-15th

  
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  Convergence Zone Cellars – June 1st – 2013 Spring Barrel Tasting Castillo de Feliciana – June 1st – Grand Opening Efeste – June 1st – Library Dinner The Woodhouse Wine Estates – June 1st – 2012 Grenache Rosé Barrel Tasting Cuillin Hills Winery – June 1st & 2nd -  Spring ...
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• Hollande opening vault, selling off treasured presidential bottles of wine

  
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  PARIS — In headier times, some of these wines were served at dinner for French presidents and their guests — kings, queens, other heads of state. In today’s times of austerity, the Elysee Palace is selling these vintage bottles. French President Francois Hollande’s palace has decided to dive into its wine ...
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• Wine of the week: Velenosi Quattro Mani 2011

  
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  The Abruzzo region of Italy, east of Rome, has been turning up more and more as a place to look for well-made, interesting, cheap wine. The region’s La Fiera , for one, has made the $10 Hall of Fame the past couple of years. The Velenosi ($12, purchased , 13%) is another Abruzzo wine worth drinking, though ...
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• God Street Wine To Make Brooklyn Bowl Debut

  
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  We were already excited about the return of God Street Wine on August 3rd at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York; but now we’ve got two more GSW gigs to look forward to as Relix has just announced that God Street Wine will play two shows at the website’s publisher Pete Shapiro’s Brooklyn Bowl venue ...
  2 weeks ago

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