Winexpression

I receive a weekly flyer from Wine Spectator in my email that outlines some highlights from their website. The information changes, but I continue to see one section that stays the same week after week, the top 5 winery searches on their website.
Top 5 Winery Searches:
1. Caymus
2. Beringer
3. Lewis
4. Columbia Crest
5. Silver Oak
It’s pretty much […]

I write this site because I love wine. I like to stay on top of the news and aside from Wine Business Online, there wasn’t a good place to get wine news unless subscribed to Wine Spectator or another paid site. So that’s my site, may not be fancy, may not have a lot of […]

Mentioned back in September, Wine Origins, a conglomorate financed by the European Union, the Comite Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne (CIVC), the Instituto dos Vinos do
Douroe Porto (IVDP), Fedejerez who represents Sherry producers from Spain, and others, Launched their website today.
From the Website: When it comes to wine, there is no ingredient more important […]

From Publishers Weekly:
In 1976, a Paris wine shop arranged a tasting as a gimmick to introduce some California wines; the judges, of course, were all French and militantly chauvinistic. Only one journalist bothered to attend, a Time correspondent, looking for a possible American angle. The story he got turned out to be a sensation. In […]

Hiroshi Tanaka has spent 15 years developing an electrolysis device that simulates, he claims, the effect of aging in wines. In 15 seconds it can transform the cheapest, youngest plonks into fine old draughts as fruit flavours are enhanced and rough edges are mellowed, he says.
How does it work? The machine pumps wine and tap […]

The next time you buy a bottle of wine from New Zealand, check out the label. You might be surprised to find a disclosure like, “fined with milk product”, or, “softened with egg whites”, or perhaps, “clarified with sturgeon bladder” (Although I’m sure they’ll use the less offensive phrase for that, ‘clarified with Isinglass’). Although […]

It was fun while it lasted (I never should have posted about it, I’m sure that’s how they found out). The Wine Spectator hack with Google News is gone! The last of the articles you can read are from September 15th and previous. I checked the other News aggregation sites, Yahoo, MSN, and it appears […]

In a follow up to a story I covered in April, by the end of this year about 40 MILLION Gallons of wine will have been distilled into pure Ethanol and used as an additive in Gasoline. Since European refineries export to the United States, that gas going into your car could include a little […]

It’s funny, I was talking to my wife about a week ago about this idea I had…. How about a wine scanner that uses wireless technology to automatically download your wine collection into a program on your computer? Just grab the Bluetooth enabled device, head over to your Wine cellar, scan the barcode on each […]

It’s a logical step for global expansion for any Wine Magazine, and Decanter is leading the way with Decanter in Asia, a Chinese language edition magazine sold in the far east. After all, luxury goods are becoming increasingly popular for the thriving Asian Middle class. The magazine will be primarily made up of content from […]