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HOW TO: Make A Picture Frame Out of a Wine Glass

Photojojo has a kinda cool tip for turning your wine glasses into creative picture frames up on their blog.
This could be an interesting project to undertake for a party where you somehow had a picture of every attendee available - and had the patience to make these ahead of time. If done right though [...]

Pinotblogger Named One of 5 Best Wine Blogs

Tyler from Dr. Vino wrote in yesterday to let me know that his article in the most recent issue of Wine and Spirits has hit the stands back east. This issue commemorates their 25th anniversary and sets out to catalogue the ‘best in the world of wine.”
Pinotblogger was listed with 4 other fantastic blogs,
Good Wine [...]

Slides from Recent Talks on Wine Marketing

Good lord. Misspelled “relations” there and used these slides in two public presentations without noticing it. Dyslexia for the win!
Also, at the request of Fabio I uploaded the slides to slideshare.net so you can now view them and embed them without having to download the file. Thanks for the tip Fabio!
I mentioned during my last [...]

More on Winery Sanitation

So, as promised, here are the results of a survey of 8 wineries and their sanitation levels presented by Dr. Worobo at a seminar last week. (Click picture to enlarge)

The main takeaway is that no winery is perfect. Floors and drains are the most likely places to find bugs. Bung holes also tend to be [...]

Wash Your Bung Hole! - Winery Sanitation Seminar

Yesterday I drove down the road to attend a 2 hour winery sanitation seminar put on at Rodney Strong winery by Vinquiry. It was pretty informative and I thought I’d share the main takeaways here for anyone interested in keeping their cellar a bit more clean.
And just so I don’t keep you in suspense, the [...]