Over on the right sidebar (I’ve included the graphic below for you RSS people) you’ll see a new Vinotrip sponsor, WineChateau.com. WineChateau is offering 50% off shipping of 6 or more bottles at their online wine store with coupon code “fourjan” Pick up a case or two and have it shipped to your boys in [...]
I’ve often been influenced by external factors when tasting wines. Out driving through vineyards on a nice day, talking with the winery employees, having a good time, and everything just tastes good. Later, in the friendly confines of my house, I’ll pour myself a glass of something, take a swig, mince and frown and make [...]
Tanbark Hill is Philip Togni’s second wine, the first being an labeled as “Philip Togni Cabernet Sauvignon.” Togni’s website reads that wine bottled under the Tanbark Hill label is “from young vines which is sold primarily to the Trade.” This runs contrary to anecdotal evidence that I heard in 2006: that Tanbark Hill is just [...]
According to CEO Stephen Bachmann’s blog post earlier today, Internet wine retailer Vinfolio “undertook a form of restructuring known as an Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors.” Operations will continue during the restructuring, according to the post. As I’ve posted on this blog, I worked for Vinfolio for almost two years in 2006-2007. The people [...]
Let’s be frank here, when you’re shipping a bottle of wine, you’re really shipping a bunch of styrofoam and glass. Somewhere in there, buried underneath a double-digit shipping charge, is the wine. The computer industry calls this inefficient. The wine industry calls it the status quo. As we all know, it is nearly impossible to [...]
Creative Commons licensed image from Flickr user thetejon This was the first wine I’ve knocked back from my Vinfolio Marketplace bounty. There’s something that is just awesome about cracking open a case of wines that are all different: Pulling them out, inspecting the bottles, ogling the labels, it’s not-unlike going back to 1987 ripping open [...]
Haven’t been doing a lot of top 5 lists lately. Will have to get back into that… …right now! I wrote this up in the waning days in December 2009, then realized that I had some good Champagnes queued up for the News Years Eve festivities. Better to wait until 2009 is officially over to [...]
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