California wine
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Of Spouses, Samples and 92-Point Flawed Wines
What do you do when you and your spouse / significant other /favorite pet / whatever find yourselves double-booked for holiday party engagements? If you’re me, you declare defeat, play holiday party hooky and instead grab three bottles from the samples stash and go out…
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Coppola Sues Vinocor In A Case of Screwed-Up Screwcaps
Here’s an interesting bit of wine news – it’s not everyday that you hear about a veritable Apocalypse Now of tens of thousands and thousands of bottles of wine, let alone have that wine related to movie icons, providing an opportunity to utilize puns related…
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Sub-terroir Rhônesick Blues = Awesome
The video embedded below, featuring Bonny Doon’s irrepressible Randall Grahm, is just… well, it’s just awesome. Fans of Grahm’s style of humor and his approach to wine-making will no doubt find much to appreciate in this satirical homage to Dylan. Those of you among our…
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Napa Cabs Need to Watch Their Backs (Washington Wine on the Rise While the Economy Tanks)
Pssst. Hey, Napa Cab. Yeah, you. You better watch yer back! That’s the underlying theme that I gleaned from a recent report by research group Wine Opinions. The report was introduced at the last Wine Industry Financial Symposium in Napa. There’s been a good amount…
