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3.5 Ways To Free Up Some Cash For Wine

“Don’t let a little thing like a recession come between you and your pinot!” - Me.
I don’t buy the idea that wine lovers - real wine lovers - are going to “trade down” during the current economic downturn and buy cheap wine, or worse, no wine at all. I think many of you are like [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Get Your Learn On - Ampelography

The fine folks over at the Trellis Alliance have released a new series of lectures from the June Grapevine Clean Plant Workshop. They are using a Macromedia product called Breeze that allows you to view the slide, the lecturer and to hear the audio all on the same page. It is very cool tech and [...]

How To Tell If You Are A Wine Supertaster

Supertaster. Super. Taster. It just sounds good. Blue tights and red cape good. Who wouldn’t want to be a wine supertaster?
According to Yale PhD Linda Bartoshuk, about 25% of the population are supertasters (15% male, 35% female), and those that are owe their supertaster status to a genetic lottery. We’re either born with a tongue [...]