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Ship to New York, thanks to Inertia

Thanks to the efforts of Paul, fellow blogger Jeff and the whole team at Inertia, small wineries like ours will soon be able to take advantage of pull demand and on a very small scale let restaurants and wine shops in New York buy wine direct from the winery - but not really.. Overall this [...]

California Wins Yet Another Blind Tasting

Those poor French. First we had the Judgment of Paris. After the Judgment of Paris we had the Re-Judgment of Paris. Then Francois Mauss declared that the dual-locale element of the Re-Judgment made the results unreliable and biased. Mauss set out to create a tasting that would even the playing field, selecting a vintage, 1995, [...]

Free Organic Farming Manual Download

From my referrer logs I know I get quite a bit of traffic from folks who are interested in starting their own vineyards. If that describes you then this post is definitely for you.
I just received an email from the Trellis Alliance letting me know that Australia has just released the culmination of their research [...]

Wine Tech

More than ever wine and web seem to be mixing in new and interesting ways. Just recently Jeff Playter, the founder of RadCru, emailed me to let me know that an event dubbed Wine 2.0 will be taking place on Nov 8 at the Varnish Fine Art Gallery and Wine Bar. The goal of the [...]

Friday Wine News Links

Pope made an honorary sommelier.
Makes sense to me. I don’t think anyone can argue that the Pope is a man who has served his fair share of wine in his lifetime.
Henri Jayer, world famous maker of Pinot, dies.
Jayer shunned many technical innovations in winemaking and disliked uniformity in wines. Instead, he used only minimal interventions [...]