The word is buzzing on the food & wine blogs this week…it would appear that Wine Spectator's Award of Excellence (y'know…those purple stickers you sometimes see proudly emblazoned on a restaurant window?) are nothing but a $250 sham. (…)
The annual Discover Virginia Music and Wine Festival is scheduled for August 30 & 31, 2008 from 11am to 6pm.
Discover Virginia is the first festival in the area to showcase the many award-winning wineries of the nearby region. (…)
The Garden State Growers Association will host the second annual Cape May Wine Festival, in Cape May, NJ on October 11th, 12th & 13th of 2008, Noon - 5pm. In addition to award winning wines, the festival offers live music, crafters, seminars, gourmets foods, and a special "Kids Zone" for young attendees. (…)
The Chateau Miraval wine estate in Provence, France is about to welcome some new tenants. (…)
Oenophile….or sucker?
The New York Times reports that American wine drinkers are more and more being portrayed as easily manipulated "dupes and twits" in the wine marketplace. The Times points out a recent Newsweek article, which focuses on a taste-test that resulted in a $10 bottle of Washington sparkling wine beating out a $150 bottle of Dom Perignon, and a $55 bottle of Napa Cabernet being defeated by the infamous Charles Shaw "Two Buck Chuck." But turn the tables, and inform the "average oenophile" how much a particular vino costs, and taste-testers are typically reported to score higher marks to the pricier bottle. Could it be (as studies by the California Intitute of Technology would indicate), that the more expensive a consumer believes a wine to be, the more pleasure he will derive from it? (…)
Yes, I'm serious. (…)
In a move reminiscent of the famous "Schlitz Gay" SNL beer commercial, a new wine, meant to "honor the gay community" has recently been introduced to the market. (…)
Health experts warn not to raise your glass just yet, but recent studies have shown a link between red wine consumption and a decrease in amyloid-beta proteins, which cause Alzheimer's inducing plaque in the brain. (…)
Researchers at Sirtris Pharmaceuticals seem to have stumbled upon The Fountain of Youth…and it's filled with red wine. (…)
We've mentioned before how enamored we are with Wine Woot, and this week's offering is a great example why. As always, Wine Woot is offering an excellent wine at an even more excellent price, for one week only. This week's featured wine is a "3 Pack Plus One" of an assortment of Columbia Valley reds, all from the producer Helix. At $59.99 plus a mere $5.00 for shipping, that's enough to rate pretty high on our bargain-excite-o-meter.
But Wine Woot doesn't stop there. This week's feature is also a "Woot Launch" exclusive, with the inclusion of one bottle of the 2005 Helix Cabernet Sauvignon, available for the first time ever. With a promise of "subtle whiffs of vanilla and sprinkles of oak spice", we may be busting out the credit cards much sooner than we planned to after the holidays.
Celebrity wines are nothing new. Mariah Carey has one. Celine Dion has attached her name to her own varietal. Even rock legends like Kiss and the Rolling Stones have gotten in on the action. So why not the "Mandy" crooner? (…)
From hybrid cars, to energy-efficient lightbulbs, to the sustainability of the foods we eat, America has "green" fever. Heck, even the NFL announced Sunday Night Football to be green this week, forcing viewers to listen to the commentary of Chris Collinsworth and Bob Costas as they sat in a poorly lit studio. With all that focus on enviromentalism, it couldn't be long before someone decided to examine the carbon footprint of the wines we drink. (…)
Many of us are already familiar with the e-commerce dynamo, Woot!, which for one day only, offers a single item on their website at a bargain basement price. Mostly, the items are gadget and tech related, but a recent foray into wines has led to the launching of Wine Woot! Offered for one week at a time, Wine Woot! (…)
The apes and monkeys of a Budapest zoo are regular red wine drinkers, officials of the zoo say.
Red table wine is administered in small doses, mixed with the animals tea, and is intended to boost the apes' red blood cells. "Obviously, they do not have it all at once and get drunk", says a spokesperson for the zoo. The 11 anthropoid apes reportedly go through 55 litres of the wine every year. (…)
Rhino Wine Gear to donate a portion of all profits to Save the Rhino International. (…)
Well I certainly hope so. These reports come out all the time. Red wine will make you live longer, fight heart disease, get healthier, grow taller, jump higher. (…)
From the looks of this image I would say he's a red man. Red Wine that is… This is a really cool image of Jimi Hendrix holding a glass of wine. (…)
Ok, I get the screw-top caps. I like them, they come in real handy when you don't have a corkscrew around. When i mentioned the wine-in-a-can concept a while back it really got me thinking. (…)
I've always wanted to know how the airlines picked the wine you get on a flight. I've had some ok wine, but mostly bad ones. I found this interesting article on the process. (…)
King Tutankhamen was a red wine drinker, according to a researcher who analyzed traces of the vintage found in his tomb. (…)
