Time to Sniff, Swirl, Spit

Two weeks from today, nearly 100 international wine judges will converge on Fairplex to sniff, swirl and spit their way through more than 3,000 wines – all in attempt to crown the best of the best.  The Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition begins May 27. Right now, wine staff are busy preparing the thousands [...]

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Alan Kerr?s Vintage?s October 29th Release ? Tasting Notes

The wines of Sonoma take centre stage in the release slotted for Saturday October 29th. I don?t have a lot of notes as so few wines were shipped, but those I tasted were, for the most part very good. Once again congratulations are in order for the team at Tawse winery, which has, for the [...]

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Find The Best Wine With Oink

At today’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Digg founder and serial entrepreneur Kevin Rose announced a new iPhone app called Oink that looks like a mash-up of Foursquare and Digg. The premise is simple; check in things you like and then the community on Oink will vote your item up or down. All of [...]

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Talking about influence, elitism and wine

On a highly unusual day in London recently I was lucky enough to be interviewed twice on similar topics – the coming together of wine, blogging and some measure of influence. This blog, in large part thanks to its longevity but also some very active and loyal followers, regularly appears on lists of “top wine [...]

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