The icewine harvest for the 2011 vintage wrapped up in February, much to the relief of grape growers, who offloaded their precious goods onto winemakers, who then faced the task of continuing the sterling reputation of the region’s international icewine fame. For the winemakers, the process is slow and painful, with sluggish ferments, sticky messes,
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For me, the idea of ‘non-obnoxious 2.0′ is becoming a bit of an oxymoron, so when I received an email about Snooth.com, I snorted rather derisively, had a quick look, and sent a reply back to the company regarding the repetitive problems that social wine sites seem to suffer. I received a very polite email
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In my inane need to collect things, and as part of some cork sourcing I was working on, I came across a site that offered me the opportunity to become something the likes of which I didn’t even think possible. Fame? No. Fortune? Nope. I could become, with the passing of a simple test, a
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It’s not often that we get slap-happy promoting contests and the like here, but this is one that absolutely should be plastered on every spare pixel of foodie/wino webspace: A Menu For Hope. Now in it’s fourth year of giving the annual campaign, run by the indomitable Pim of ChezPim.com and supported by her legions
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Oddly mirroring the explosion of pirate culture as a result of lovable lout Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, a swash-buckling, treasure-hunting fervour has also enveloped the wine world. In recent years there has been a strong backlash against wine snobbery and a renewed sense of adventure when it comes to ferreting
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