The Wine Gift Guy

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Changing How I Do Things Here

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a review for any wine. Honestly, it was getting hard to buy and drink so much wine. You know, us liquor store managers are only paid so much and buying a new wine every night to taste or drink with dinner was just too far “out there”. But […]

Wine Marketing To Women

I read an article this morning on NewsTimesLive.com in the Leisure Time section. It was titled “Does marketing insult female buyers?”. It didn’t have a byline so I don’t know who wrote it, that person won’t get credit here, sorry.

Anyway, the subject of the article bored me a little, something about a cartoon French lady […]

Rowland Cellars Wine

The other day I had the pleasure of having Gerald Rowland stop by so I could taste his wines. Gerald Rowland is the owner and winemaker for Rowland Cellars, Napa Valley. Rowland Cellars produces wines under the labels Rowland, Ramspeck and Cenay (sen-AY).

I have distributors come in the store quite often to do tastings but […]

2002 Red Wine St. Francis Winery

According to a test done at the University of California, Davis, the taste of cheese dulls the palate so that many of the flavors in wine cannot be tasted.

According to the results of tests conducted at the University of California, Davis, cheese dulls the taste of red wine, making it difficult to discern different flavours.

Dr […]

Ice Wine

I’ve never tasted Ice Wine but I have read a bit about it and I’ve even seen a show on the Fine Living Channel about it. It’s kind of expensive for my liking, maybe that’s why I haven’t “invested” in a bottle, I don’t know.

Anyway, Verena Dobnik for the Associated Press writes about an upstate […]

Chinese Wine…A Rich Idea In 5 Years?

I just read an article in the New Zealand Herald by Koh Chin Ling - Beijing, that said that China, the sixth largest wine producer in the world is hiring experienced wine makers from France and buying wine presses from Italy all in a effort to make their wines more palatable.

All I can say […]

Low Price, Good Wine

I think if you read though the posts on this blog you’ll see the same thing I see, low price doesn’t mean bad wine. Take that Vina Antigua Sangiovese Bonarda from Argentina that I reviewed a few days ago, it was great and I only paid $3.99 for it.

Well, Blanca Torres wrote about the […]

Americans Will Increase Their Wine Consumption By Eight Times?

It’ll take more than just a few years for Americans to increase their 2 gallons per person per year wine consumption to 16 gallons like the French. Jonathon Alsop, the Daily News Correspondent for Metro West Daily News predicts (rather lightly) it’ll happen maybe within the next 200 years. Wine, although it continues to be […]

My Wine Aroma Wheel Came Just Now!

UPS just left me a package, yay! It’s the Wine Aroma Wheel I ordered from the UC Davis Bookstore. The wheel was created by Ann Noble and is a tool to help wine drinkers identify and better describe the flavors and aromas of wine.

Since I received it I found more info about it at www.winearomawheel.com, […]

New Year’s Resolution ~ Sample A New Wine Monthly

Dan and Krista Stockman of The Journal Gazette had a great idea in the article they wrote that was posted on FortWayne.com homepage. Resolve to sample a new wine each month, they even gave a wine goal for each month. Check it out, maybe you’ll want to give it a try.

I’ll be talkin’ to […]

Waiter Rants About How To Order Wine

A lot of the wine blogs I read already posted about a very good post on the Waiter Rant blog. It’s about how to order wine in a restarant, something we all need to know how to do if we ever want to enjoy a bottle of wine outside our home. It’s a great post, […]

Fun Wine Facts

Yesterday’s Memphis Flyer ran an article written by Taylor Eason, their Food and Wine writter, that caught my eye. She listed some interesting facts, like the cork oak tree takes 40 to 45 years before a sapling can produce a stopper thick and consistent enough for wine and like in 2004 red wine edged out […]

Maureen’s Back In The News

Well, Maureen Petrovsky’s back in the media’s eye again, the Philadelphia Daily News has an article about wine for New Year’s Eve and they interviewed none less than Ms. Petrovsky. You might remember that she was on the Today Show last week talking about wine gifts and I reported about it here on my blog. […]

More On Champange

Continuing on to New Year’s Eve, I’m thinking that most my readers will at least consider drinking a flute of sparkling wine or champagne, I found an article on the Wine Weekly with Vino Joe blog about champagne. He talks about vintage vs. non-vintage, serving champagne and among other things, how to open a bottle […]

Champagne Terminology

As promised in my last post, I said I’d come back and explain some of the terminology I used. So, here I am, explanations in hand.

First, why do I refer to the Cristalino as a sparkling wine and a champagne?
Well, to be honest, Cristalino is NOT a champagne, in Europe, regulations state that a wine […]

Virtual Wine Tasting

I’ve been doing a lot of looking around on the internet for information about wine. Yesterday I must have gone through a hundred different articles and press releases, it got really boring reading about stuff that no one cares about. Then it dawned […]

Grape Radio - Wine Gift Giving Show

I just ran across a show that Grape Radio did about wine gift giving, how appropriate. If you’ve never heard of Grape Radio, it’s and internet radio show that is podcasted. What that means is that you can download the show as an MP3 file and listen to it on your computer or your IPod […]

The Motivation

Being involved in the managing of a large liquor and wine retailer provides me with a wonderful opportunity to discuss wine and gifting issues with a large number of people. During this past holiday season, seeing the difficulty customers were having with decisions regarding wines as gifts, I thought that there might be a way […]