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The Biggest Problem Shipping Wine Direct…

…is cooked wine. Yuk.
Jeff at Good Grape has an excellent post up today outlining the dangers of not being available to sign for your wine shipment when either UPS or Fedx attempts delivery. Many in the industry try and mitigate the dangers of having wine cooked in the back of a delivery truck by shipping [...]

Which Cruise Lines Allow You to Carry On Wine?

It’s good to be home. Candace and I just got back from a cruise to Alaska with two very good friends and are still readjusting to life on land. It was tough being away from our 10-month-old for that long, but the sleep and general relaxation were wonderful. You don’t realize just how sleep deprived [...]

The World’s Greatest Drunkard

Not that I condone excessive drinking, but this article on Modern Drunkard is really pretty entertaining. Andre the Giant, best known (by me) for his fantastic turn in the legendary Princess Bride, is by one author’s account the world’s greatest drunkard. The evidence? Compelling.

Andre drank 7,000 calories worth of booze every day
Andre once drank 16 [...]

Pinot Swilling Parker Zombies From Hell!

It’s either really early or really late for Halloween - take your choice - but when I saw that a guy named Len was offering to draw custom monsters based on a title of your choosing on his website Monsterbymail.com, I knew I had to get one.
So I chose “Pinot Swilling Parker Zombies From Hell!” [...]

How To: Tasting Notes Using Jott and Twitter

So I haven’t been one of those early adopters of Twitter, the “micro blogging” service that took the tech nerd world by storm earlier this year.
Personally I happen to think that the fact that you’re “doing laundry right now, in one big load” is about as interesting as…well as interesting as talking about laundry.
However [...]