The Associated Press is reporting that Pennsylvania whipped off a big one this month. The state is putting wine vending machines in grocery stores so that consumers can pick up wine and lettuce in the same building for the first time since (I am guessing here) prohibition. Sounds like a progressive move. Sounds like a [...]
Wine retailer and collector services magnate Vinfolio launched Wineprices.com last month. The front end was designed by Hydrant in San Francisco. The Hydrant team did a great job with the challenge of displaying all the information that Vinfolio has about a particular wine in such a way the the user wasn’t overwhelmed or lost. Backend [...]
Okay, so maybe not those last three items. But the first, oh how it will help with the first! I’m not sure I’ve ever mentioned it here, but my day job is working as a Software Engineer for Vinfolio, the San Francisco based wine retailer and collector services company (Full disclosure: I work for Vinfolio). [...]
Picked this up from the LA Times of all places: Both Brooks Robinson and Eddie Murray have lent their names and likeness to a series of commemorative wines that will be sold for charity. Brooks Robinson Chardonnay and Eddie Murray 504 Cabernet Sauvignon are both on sale now and will be shipped in mid-June. Perfect [...]
Featured: 2006 Boordy Chardonnay. Not pictured: my other pickle slice (consumed) The early wine glasses: big, aroma-releasing, tailored to each varietal, and a liability in the dishwasher. Broken wine stems and glass bowls abound, and my nice glasses were taken out of the rotation. Riedel devolved the wine glass into a stemless version, solving the [...]
Gary Vaynerchuk’s book 101 Wines is up on Wine.Woot today (and today only). $10.99 and $5 shipping gets you a signed copy delivered to your door. I haven’t read it, but 1WineDude posted a lengthy review yesterday. Link to Wine.Woot.
Mojo, an all HD channel (226 on Comcast) has been added to Hulu, the television show free-for-all (and legal to boot!) located at hulu.com. I’m a fan of Mojo, especially Wall Street Warriors, but I didn’t know they had a wine show on there. Uncorked stars some guy who doesn’t know anything about wine and [...]
I heard about this yesterday but didn’t mention anything because I thought it was April Fools fallout (and I wanted to keep my Chinon story on top). Well, it’s April 4th and if the joke is still going then this is the greatest April Fools joke in history because everyone is reporting on it, not [...]
Following up on the custome cellar post from a few weeks back, there’s a thread ongoing on the Squires Board where people are posting pictures their own cellars. Nice Stuff. Link
My mother forwarded two articles printed on actual paper this week. The first reaches back to September of 2007: Demand for Maryland Wine is outpacing vineyard output. I guess Virginia isn’t the only state that just can’t grow them fast enough. The article glosses over a lot of points which is more of a testament [...]
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