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Adventures in packaging: single-serve wine in a plastic glass!

Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2010

Forget screwcaps versus corks: An English entrepreneur has sold this invention of single-serve plastic wine glasses–stem and all!–to Marks & Spencer, which now “struggles to keep up with demand.” He is laughing all the way to the bank since a business reality show in the UK called “Dragons’ Den” panned the idea when he presented [...]

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Slate.com investigates the high-end wine market

Date: Mon, Jun 14, 2010

It is rare to see long-form journalism on the web. It’s even harder to find superb investigative journalism in wine writing. Thus the department of fine and rare wine writing just got a path-breaking new entry: “What’s in the Bottle?” published on Slate.com. In it, Mike Steinberger explores the rarefied and occasionally louche world of [...]

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Nuclear wine, tasting games, “celebrities” – sipped and spit

Date: Mon, Jun 14, 2010

SPIT: going nuclear Tired of sharing a name with a problematic nuclear facility, a French wine region opts for a new one that anglophones can’t pronounce. [The Independent] SPIT: damned wine saloons Some UWS residents fear a proposed (and, now, approved) wine bar at 25 Central Park West will bring “hookers,” “drugs,” “drunks” and “celebrities” to their neighborhood. [...]

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Three cheers for the judiciary!

Date: Mon, Jun 14, 2010

Have you ever met someone and talked with her about a topic, only to find out that–unknown to you–she is a key player in that very topic ? That happened to me about a week ago. I gave the keynote talk to 250 attendees at the annual dinner of the Boston Patent Lawyers Association. The [...]

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“Quickly emptied:” Rating wine on a drinkability scale

Date: Wed, Jun 9, 2010

After surveying several dozen choices last night in my basement last night–too cool an evening for a rosé, never enough Pinot around–I settled on the 2008 D. Coquelet, “vieilles vignes” from the often-overlooked appellation of Chiroubles. Still in his twenties, Damien Coquelet is both the stepson of Georges Descombes, the Morgon vigneron, and a rising [...]

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Scenes from the Wine Media Guild 2010 dinner

Date: Tue, Jun 8, 2010

“Numerical scoring has replaced the drama, joy, pathos and excitement of wine,” said Dan Berger last night at the Four Seasons in New York City. Berger was one of four inductees into the Wine Writers’ Hall of Fame of the Wine Media Guild, a 35 year-old organization. This was the third class of inductees, which [...]

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Dairing Pairings by Evan Goldstein

Date: Mon, Jun 7, 2010

On this site, we love exotic food-wine pairings. And we often talk about grapes beyond the “big six.” So it should come as no surprise that I am a fan of Evan Goldstein’s new book, Daring Pairings. (In fact, I provided a blurb for the back cover.) The highly skimmable book starts off with a [...]

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Daring Pairings by Evan Goldstein

Date: Mon, Jun 7, 2010

On this site, we love exotic food-wine pairings. And we often talk about grapes beyond the “big six.” So it should come as no surprise that I am a fan of Evan Goldstein’s new book, Daring Pairings. (In fact, I provided a blurb for the back cover.) The highly skimmable book starts off with a [...]

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Herring Pairing: New Catch Holland Herring and wine?

Date: Thu, Jun 3, 2010

One cool June afternoon, standing by a harbor in Holland, I tilted my head back and lowered a fish covered in raw onions into my mouth. Frankly, I couldn’t stand it. Granted, I was in college backpacking through Europe at the time and I admit that having scarfed down platters of sushi in the interim, [...]

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Do you want alcohol levels in reviews? [poll] & a comment from Joly

Date: Wed, Jun 2, 2010

Last week’s New York Times reviewed some wines from Savennières, the Loire appellation that makes often-stunning, always dry versions of chenin blanc. The article noted the alcohol levels from the label of each wine alongside the newspaper’s ratings, comments and prices. Would you like to see more reviewers noting alcohol levels? Although what’s written on [...]

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Wine tasting at Caves Auge – Tissot and Binner edition [Paris]

Date: Tue, Jun 1, 2010

Stephane Tissot from the Jura outside Les Caves Augé in Paris. Les Caves Augé, the excellent Paris wine shop, has fun, free wine tastings that spill on to the sidewalk. The shop is crammed with so many fine and fun wines that they mainly have to do these free tastings outside of the winter months, so [...]

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Help Trader Joe’s pair wine with tzatziki!

Date: Fri, May 28, 2010

Who would ever think about pairing wine with tzatziki? Why, the good folks at Trader Joe’s! (Or should I say, Trader Iosif, as is their wont.) They put it right there on the packaging–a platter of tzatziki and pita, a view of a bay, and some red wine… Is that what you would go for pairing [...]

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Steve Case, recorking, Prohibition, wine weather — sipped and spit

Date: Thu, May 27, 2010

SPIT: the wrong end In Tuesday’s post about wine closure preferences, some commenters expressed frustration about not being able to reinsert a synthetic cork back into an unfinished bottle. That reminded me that a winemaker once told me that if you do that with a regular cork, be sure to keep the same side facing down, [...]

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Which closure do you hate the most? [poll]

Date: Tue, May 25, 2010

A few weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a story about Nomacorc, a producer of synthetic corks. The story ran a graphic depicting market share by closure type, with data from Nomacorc. Corks were listed at 69%, plastic corks at 20%, and screw caps at 11%. That struck me as not at all my [...]

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