Burning our FUSEBOX at Both Ends
Those grape-squeezing folks at Crushpad have selected 10 bloggers to participate in the first ever Crushpad Fusebox BlendOff. And what’s a Fusebox? Well for one, it’s not that thing you have to go mess with when your hair-dryer manages to blow all the power in one-side of your house!
Continue readingSomewhere Over the Rhine: Riesling
When you mention Riesling, many will say “Oh, I don’t really like sweet wines, ” assuming all wines labeled Rieslings are sweet. However, Riesling can fall anywhere on the spectrum from bone dry to an intensely-concentrated sweetness, with variances in between. Riesling is one of the varietals most determined by its terroir, and wines can differ in their level of alcohol by volume. Many of the classic German semisweet version are 8% alcohol by volume or less, while newer, dryer Alsace and Austrian Rieslings are around 12%.
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Get in the Pink for October!
What does an NFL Wide Receiver, an 80s pop-icon and wine have in common with fancy crystal stemware? All are working to boost awareness of the disease that will take the lives of over 40,000 women in 2009 alone.
Continue readingFoodbuzz Blog Awards – We were nominated in 2 categories!
We are very honored to be nominated for Food Buzz Blog Awards in two categories: Best Wine Blog and Blogger You’d Most Want to be your personal Sommelier. Voting continues through October 29, 2009. Please take time to vote!
Continue readingIt’s Old vs. New Guard at First Houston Wine Conference
Gary Vaynerchuk talked about “The Changing Face of Wine,” during which he piped, “For all the wholesalers out there … [expletive] you; there’s a reason I left Russia.” Which was pretty darned funny considering he followed a guy who works for one of the biggest distributor/wholesaler cartels in the United States. Directed at the 3-tier system, Gary V. refers to draconian post-Prohibition state laws that bar consumers from buying wine sold by out-of-state retailers.
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