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RAVE 2006 Webcast

This will only be of interest to grape growers and uber wine geeks, but I enjoyed watching parts of it already so I thought I’d share.
RAVE stands for Recent Advances In Viticulture and Enology and it is a yearly presentation of new research that takes place at UC Davis. This year is the first that [...]

How Blog Tasting Notes Should Be

Bloggers can do so much with their notes. They are less constrained by length and can offer more backstory than print media, and they can link to other sources for additional information on a wine. They can podcast or vlog their notes. Most importantly, blog authors can also direct readers immediately to a source where [...]

RadCru Launches July 10th

I got note a couple days ago from RadCru co-founder Jeff Playter letting me know that his new wine-a-day site will be launching on July 10. RadCru is teaming up with Inertia Clients (one of which might be me if all goes well) and offering one wine a day, 5 times a week, for a [...]

Fast Cars and Pinot

Way down in an article in the SF Chronicle about wine sponsors like Ravenswood (No Wimpy Wahns Y’all) at Infinion Raceway is this gem:
James Wilson of Reno, wearing a beat-up ball cap and scruffy beard, tasted the 2003 Ravenswood Old Vine Lodi Zinfandel ($15) and said somewhat professorially, “NASCAR fans are becoming so much more [...]

New Cell Phone With Built-In Breathalyzer

Those wild and crazy Koreans have gone and designed a phone to keep you from driving drunk and drunk dialing. From Cnet Gadgets Blog:
The LP4100 has a built-in breath analyzer that, when blown into by an intoxicated partier, gives a warning and displays a nifty little animation of a car swerving on a road and [...]