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Pocket Size Vintage Chart

Friday, August 26th, 2005

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 [...]

Wine Weekend Getaway

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Planning a trip to wine country soon and want to get a good view of where to stay? Since google released it’s API for it’s popular map service, company’s are incorporating it into their products. Yahoo released their map application as well and there was a Sideways wine tour made by use of it. This [...]

12 Predictions from Robert M Parker Jr.

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

I knew this day would come. Parker put out twelve predictions for the wine world, coming to their apex by 2015. No more affordable first growths…Central Coast of California is where it’s at…Spain is to be the next great region….Sippy cups are going to be the glassware of choice over Crystal. (oh wait, not that [...]

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