One dude changed how America thinks about wine, and changed it for good. Eric V. Orange didn’t mean to, but that’s how history often works. In 2000, Eric started an online bulletin board to post local wine events. Not surprisingly, he named it www.localwineevents.com. As it caught...

After having some success with their Twitter hashtag campaign #MeetTheFarmers (which promoted the supposedly good ingredients that McDonald’s uses and the farmers that produce them), the wise social media sages at Mickey D’s thought it would be a bright idea to introduce a new...

A small little wine school in Chicago is getting a whole lot of attention. Master Sommelier (and runner up in the International Silly Name Contest)  Krunch Kretschmar has unwittingly discovered how to build a virtual nuclear warhead with nothing but social media. Krunch owns Bottled Grapes,...

Nothing quite like sitting back and popping open a delicious 12 ounce can of whiskey. WTF?  What will likely be a very bad day for substance abuse counselors, Scotch Whiskey will be sold in  cans come February 1st.   Each can  is about half the size of an average whiskey bottle, and is...

Apparently, wines taste better when sipped under red or blue lights. Green and white lights?  Not so good. Read it at The Daily...

“The market for wine-bottle closures is a $4 billion battlefield where an epic confrontation is now taking place.” - George Taber, from To Cork or Not To Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science, and the Battle for the Wine Bottle The much-needed discussion about wine closures is upon us and...

Come Monday, October 27, members of the Brunello Consortium will vote whether or not to change the appellation regulations that have governed Brunello wines for years.  Jeremy Parzen of Do Bianchi writes about it here.  You can also follow the Brunello debates on VinoWire.com, an excellent...

Terry Gross interviews Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher over on Fresh Air.  The writers of Wall Street Journal’s wine column Tastings are down-to-earth, knowledgeable, and quite at ease with their chosen love.  They discuss various wines (think grape varieties and regions) ...

On a recent NPR program featuring Nigella Lawson, Ms. Lawson said that food gifts are her favorite gifts – both to give and to receive.  She went on to speak about how sharing food with friends and family around the holidays – in the form of a gift – was a much bigger...

For those who read Benjamin Wallace’s excellent The Billionaire’s Vinegar you understand the necessity (ahem, for some) to authenticate a bottle of wine that is worth, well, thousands upon thousands of dollars.  Could that wine have once been owned by Thomas Jefferson?  Or is...