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Get your entry in. Obviously, this being a small site, you have an excellent chance of winning a free bottle of great wine, and all you need to do is write a paragraph or so about your favorite winery. What could be easier? Not doing it? Yeah I know, but that’s boring.
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Dr. Mark Matthews of UC Davis Viticulture Department proposes that doubling yields from 18 buds per vine to 36 buds per vine doesn’t hurt the quality of the wine and his findings were published recently in American Vineyard Magazine. This study goes against the practice of heavy pruning and thinning which is thought to encourage [...]

You know both websites, most likely you’ve used both at one time or another. But you got tired of paying for a subscription to Wine Specator online, or maybe you just didn’t want to. Now you are missing all the good stories.
It’s amazing what a little dilligence will do for you. I don’t have a [...]

Vintage Charts are nice, providing quick reference to quality wine. Although the accuracy of charts is debatable, it holds true that in good growing seasons, the majority of the wines will be good, and the opposite in bad years. The folks over at lifehacker recommend printing and laminating a chart for clean transport at all [...]

Yesterday a news release to Business Wire confirms that the California Supreme Court denied Bronco’s Appeal to review the decision from an earlier Appeal. Slowly, the steam is running out in Bronco’s battle to use the name Napa on their wine labels where the grapes don’t come from Napa. But it isn’t over yet, as [...]

This is a fun article from Suzanne Grumko to The Free Lance Star. Suzanne explores the confusion of multiple names of grape varieties throughout the world. Perhaps you have been confused about a varietal at your local wine shop. Names like Sauvignon Blanc and Fume Blanc, Syrah and Shiraz, Cabernet Franc and Carmenet, Mouvedre and [...]

As the line between Old World Wine and New World Wine continues to become more hazy, Robin Garr over at the Wine Lovers Page proposes that the terminology to describe them change. To describe the style of a wine with the terms traditional or modern makes sense, considering that old world wineries are adapting the [...]

Last week, The Napa Valley Grapegrowers Association held a fundraiser in Rutherford to raise funds for one purpose: the fight against Bronco Wines and Four Buck Fred in court. As the legal case continues to be dragged out, the winemakers of the valley are coming up with creative ways of raising funds to protect their [...]

And not just in another episode of the Bachelor. This time wine is the reality show. Due to begin production in December, the new show, The Wine Makers, will be a six part series and will chronicle 5 competitors as they strive to become a Winemaker. Applications are being taken in essay form and will [...]

I wanted to clarify a few things.
Length: 100 words is to short, instead let’s make it no more than 1 word document page, anything under is fine.
What should I write about?:
Entice us with descriptive language about a winery you love. Why should we go there? How is the wine? How is it different from other [...]