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Man Builds House Made of 13,500 Wine Bottles

From ABC News Online:
“A house in Western Australia’s south-west is being built entirely from recycled wine bottles.
Around 13,500 wine bottles will be used in the walls of the house, which owner Peter Little says will save energy.
He says by filling the bottles with water, the entire building will be insulated.”
No picture, sadly. I’m curious if [...]

How to Make a Killer Wine Journal - Cheap!

If you love wine you’ve probably at least glanced at the fancy wine journals you can buy from the likes of Wine Enthusiast and elsewhere. They let you scrawl a few tasting notes and scrapbook labels into a central repository that you can file away and look up the next time you want to know [...]

Wine Country Pinot Noir Soda

I haven’t tasted this stuff so I can’t pass judgment, but I am truly interested if there is a market for it. Are people so Pinot crazed that they will want to integrate our beloved grape into the soda pop portion of their diets?
The company that markets the product, Vignette, is located in Berkeley [...]

Super-Secret Winery Financial Data

In a closed and largely privately held industry like Wine it can be hard to find solid financial numbers to judge your performance against. One of the very best sources of information on the profit picture for northern CA wineries comes from Silicon Valley Bank’s Wine Division. SVB has been lending to Sonoma and Napa [...]