Taste Tube Wines: Wineside, A French Experiment Under Way

The try before you buy way works for software, music and more.French entrepreneurs are taking a walk on the wine side.Innovative company Wineside came up with a combination taste tube and screw top and offers sweet wines such as Banyuls (6cl) and Bandol (my illustration),...

10 Wines to Keep Your Lover...On Valentine's Day and Beyond

Not that good a singer or a dancer, maybe picking a great bottle of wine and some chocolates to go with it is all you need to do to seduce that special someone or just rekindle the passion.  Natalie McLean describes wine as "liquid sensuality: Its heady bouquet...

Trouble In The Strait

"Trouble In The Strait Of Hormuz Terrell E. Arnold 1-15-8 The Strait of Hormuz has been an important waterway since the earliest development of maritime trade. That means if you scan the pages of histories, or the countless clay tablets that speak of great historic empires...

A little Chardonnay in your Mark West 'Pinot Noir'... thank Alex Cose

I encountered and tasted both the Mark West 'Pinot Noir' and the Avalon 'Cabernet Sauvignon' but did not realize until today that they shared a common thread with Peter Michael wines, winemaker Alex Cose. It might sound heretical or feel like high treason to...

On the West Coast...of South Africa that is: Groote Post wines and hospitality

I always enjoy discovering new places that have a distinct quality to them. Groote Post sounds like one them.

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Reveilo - the best Indian wine?

"In a quiet corner of Nashik Valley, a hundred-acre vineyard and winery is making arguably the best wine in India."

Porn star hits it big as wine-maker

AVN star Savanna Samson's, Sogno Uno, a 2004 vintage of an Italian red wine packaged under the Savanna name with a label of Samson in a see-through gown, Received a score of 90 to 91 out of 100 by wine guru Robert Parker. The wine is a mix of 70 percent Cesanese, 20 percent...