If you haven’t seen it, this is well worth a read.  Tyler Colman recently gave an interview to the Wall Street Journal in conjunction with his recent book “Wine Politics: How Governments, Mobsters, and Critics Influence the Wines We Drink“. If you are not in the know, Tyler is better known as Dr. Vino in […]

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The 2008 Philadelphia Wine Festival is today. The beneficiary this year is the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), one of the best children’s hospitals in the country.
Lots of good wineries present - and an extra-special liquor store set up by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, one of the most over-bearing and ridiculous monopolies in […]

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Sorry about that - long absence.  We were traveling the country, trying to stir up trouble and business.
We managed to do a bit of each successfully.

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Eric Asimov’s recent column Should wine be a family affair? reminded me of a story I recently saw in the Dallas Morning News on families that involve their children in wine.
Adler over at Vinography has a good entry on this topic as well.
I really do not know if it is a good idea or not. […]

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Someone out there is Diggin’ us. BethieL put us up on digg.com under the title Personalized wine recommendations!
We have been very pleased how quickly we are growing - especially since we have not done any real advertising yet. And more exciting for us is that 40% of our registered users - a number […]

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