Wine producers should Tweet more
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Producers are ��sticking their heads in the sand' when it comes to talking
to consumers, a conference has heard.
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Wine Media
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A Sweet Wine with Staying Power (Wine Spectator) - Vinhos Barbeito Malmsey Madeira The Rare Wine Co. Historic Series Special Reserve22 hours ago
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Six Years of Thanksgiving Wisdom - The distilled wisdom of six years of Thanksgiving wine tastings.3 days ago
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Wine as a Passion/Wine as a Business by Adam Strum - Wine is one of the few subjects where the story behind the product is as fascinating as the wine itself. Intriguing visionaries, brave business choices, a ...1 week ago
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2005 Ponzi Pinot Noir - *2005 Ponzi Pinot Noir* The 2005 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley offers toasty cherry and strawberry aromas leading to a medium-bodied, structured wine with sp...1 year ago
Personal Wine Blogs
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Bastianich Sauvignon “B” (2008) Friuli-Venezia Giulia - A very refreshing Italian white wine from Bastianich, a 70 acre Friulian winery founded in 1997 by superstar TV chef Lidia Bastianich and her newly svelte,...
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Q&A: Lindsay Stevens, Winemaker, King Ferry Winery/Treleaven Wines - By Lenn Thompson, Editor-in-Chief Lindsay Stevens, winemaker at King Ferry Winery/Treleaven Winess grew up in the Finger Lakes region and she went to colle...9 hours ago
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A partir del agua se vende la cerveza - Titular: The waters just make things better. From the pure waters of Tasmania. Fuente: The Inspiration Room
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Integrity—Bloodied and Scarred - I tend to talk a loud game here at Fermentation about the corruption that surrounds the politics of wine distribution. I tend to accuse politicians of being ...14 hours ago
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Know Before You Go; Tasting Room Etiquette - In my column today in The Oregonian, I give insight into the rules of etiquette when visiting your local tasting rooms. I’m sure many of you will be visiti...1 day ago
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Life’s Rich Pageant - I must be on every wine retailer email list under the sun—too many to count and the usual suspects, too—K&L, Garagiste and a number of others from around...1 day ago
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Corked Wine Etiquette - Poll Results and some Thoughts - Here is the question I initially asked: You and several other guests are at some one's house for dinner. The host serves a wine that is corked. What do you...1 day ago
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Berry Bros & Rudd Extra Ordinary Claret - We had a mini celebration this week, which required a mini-celebration wine. I was despatched to root around and find the perfect wine. I don't do well un...
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Klaatu Burrata Nikto - Funny, some of the convergences in life. Just a few observations from the road. Maybe it’s all the high- sugar, high-acid wine I’ve been trying from Krache...
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Wine, Mouthfeel and the Dilemma - "I would like a smooth wine." I've overheard this request plenty of times. I've also heard a sommelier describe a wine in that manner, and my heart sinks. ...2 days ago
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Wine Tasting Clubs: Solving the Mystery One Glass at a Time - I had heard my husband talk about Iris for weeks during his ISG studies but didn't meet her until the class got together for a holiday party last December....2 days ago
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King Family Vineyards: Red & White Delights! - Hello Friends, Our next stop on the Monticello Wine Trail was to King Family Vineyards, located just west of Charlottesville in Crozet. King Family Vineya...
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Vive La France! Bordeaux Tasting At Maslow 6 With Francois Thienpont - As a declared Italophile, I always feel somewhat guilty when I swoon for wines from a different country, even if that country is France which as readers of...3 days ago
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Montepulciano d'Abruzzo - 2006 La Valentina Italy **See update below for additional food pairing** I was at a restaurant the other night and I had a glass of a Montepulciano d'Ab...
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How to open a bottle of wine with out an opener! - Perhaps you've already seen this; it's posted all over. But this is too good not to share if you haven't:1 week ago
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Portugal: the Land that Time Forgot - I found this interesting view of Portugal on “Grapes and Grains” blog: “From the moment my foot hit the tarmac upon debarking from the plane, I knew I was ...1 week ago
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Thanksgiving Wine Under $20: My Picks for 2009 - It's that time of year again, when people take to their computers in search of Thanksgiving wine recommendations. (vintage Thanksgiving image from an 1894 ...
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Wine Fair : Wine for Asia 2009 - Tastings - - Managed to get some tastings in during the Wine for Asia 2009, the good and the bad. *Mangosteen Wine from Thailand* Made by Chiang Rai Winery of Thaila...
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Alan Kerr's Vintage's October 24th Release - Tasting Notes - What’s new at Vintages on October 24th? The focus is on wines from both the land of Oz and port from the Douro Valley. Here are a few notes on the wines fr...2 weeks ago
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Caroline: a dark poem for a darkling season - When the light of Summer fades, the heart can grow restless - and Love, like the lengthening nights of Autumn, can drift despairingly into shadows. Carolin...3 weeks ago
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Walgreens to sell beer and wine - Walgreen Co. plans to add beer and wine to its stores, marking a return to a business it exited more than a decade ago. The Deerfield, Ill.-based drugstore...5 weeks ago
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2006 Placet - Over the past two or three years I started to put a few whites aside in my cellar for aging - mostly German whites and a few Chablis, but I have also set a...1 month ago
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Taltarni Shiraz, Pyrenees 2005 - Price: about $30 from Woolworth's Liquor Closure: Cork; 14.0% alcohol *E-Hern:* Score: 93 Value: ***** When I opened this wine and saw the perfectly stain...
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WBC09: It’s here! Well, the Twisted Pre-Party, Anyway! - The 2nd Annual North American Wine Bloggers' Conference is almost here, starting tomorrow! It is again at the Flamingo in Santa Rosa, CA, deep in the Sono...2 months ago
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Best Wine Blog Posts for July 3rd through July 30th - Best of the wine blogosphere for July 3rd through July 30th: Cabernet Franc: What We Learned From 656 Glasses of Wine The Coming of Age of Wine Blogging Ja...3 months ago
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I HAVE MOVED!!! CHECK OUT THE NEW DIGGS! - I have moved. Come on over and join me at my new home on Wordpress. www.winegeeknyc.com
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Copia Struggles Continue - *Copia opened in the midst of an economic downturn during the dot-com meltdown and just after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.* [image: COPIA200-w...1 year ago
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Pressing Wine in the WinePod - Well, folks, if you have been following along with our WinePod adventures, yesterday was press day. Pressing extracts juice from the grapes by pushing dow...
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My Chicken Fajitas - My Sister, Gena and Me: way past 20- something! There is no picture of the recipe or my sister and me when we were younger...so you'll have to imagine on...
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Crios by Susana Balbo - Ok, so the first two wines I review are made by Susana Balbo. I have several more of hers stocked up so you may see a lot of her wines reviewed in the com...
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Amista Vineyards - I love discovering new players in the wine field. Through a series of articles I have been writing on women-owned wineries, I was fortunate to sit down and...3 years ago
Wine Industry Blogs
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Crus Bourgeois - The General Assembly from Medoc's Alliance de Crus Bourgeois took place at château Clément Pichon and voted with a large majority for a guidelines defining...13 hours ago
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Fine wine flash sales - A "flash sale" is a generic term applied to limited time (typically 24 to 48 hour) sales featuring a single item, or modest number of items from a ...1 day ago
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Enjoying fall foliage while putting the vineyard to bed - This is a deceptively quiet time of year. We aren't harvesting any more, but we're still pressing off some red lots in the cellar and only a few select lots ...4 days ago
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Astro (rubber) chicken! - No, the rubber chicken didn't go for a ride this time, but getting to see a big launch like this is always cool! Twisted Few member Steve Mertesdorf took the...1 week ago
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Harvest Chronicles - October 12, 2009 - Early this morning, Michael Wolf and his Vineyard team harvested our Petit Verdot and the last of our Cabernet Sauvignon. By noon, Dawnine Dyer and her cr...4 weeks ago