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Creative Commons licensed image from Flickr user protographer23 Last week, Wine Business broke the sad news that uber-retailer Amazon is ending their push into the online wine retailing space. This comes on the heels of the much quieter news that Costco.com is ending their online wine sales. These two companies, Amazon and Costco, total $92 [...]

October 26th, 2009 | Tags: amazon, costco, hard, internets, inventory, sad dog is sad, whining, wine retailing, Wine shipping | Category: I thought that was obvious, Wine shipping, Wine shops | Leave a comment

Many things in this world are much better when experienced at the source. Guinness is better in Ireland, pizza is better in Italy, and Shiraz is better down under in Australia. I never thought much of Gruner Veltliner as a marquee grape until I went to Austria and drank the juice from where the grape [...]

October 19th, 2009 | Tags: austria, gruner veltliner, guinness, pizza, yum | Category: Tasting notes | Comments (1)

It’s Drink Local Wine‘s second annual Regional Wine Week. My wine rack is comepltely bare of any local wines, so how about we do like a sitcom and run a clips show with the two best and two worst local notes I’ve taken over the past year. The interesting thing about this note… Very light [...]

October 16th, 2009 | Tags: drink local wine, eat local cheese, how on earth do you spell Gewurztraminer, local local local, Maryland, mystery wine, oceans of regret, ooh that's nasty, regional wine week, Virginia, why did I buy this | Category: Maryland, Tasting notes, Virginia | Leave a comment

One issue that Wine 2.0 is struggling with is normalization of wine names. Is that a 2006 Arlaud Pere & Fils – Gevrey-Chambertin Aux Combottes 1er Cru (Vieilles Vignes) you’re drinking, or is it simply a 2006 Arlaud – Gevrey-Chambertin? Are they the same wine? What’s with all these words on the label? What if [...]

October 13th, 2009 | Tags: adegga, avin, geek factor 8, wine.bomb, wine.com | Category: Wine shops | Comments (2)