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The Wine Curmudgeon
http://www.winecurmudgeon.com
Common sense talk about drinking, buying, and enjoying wine
- Added on: Dec 9th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Jeff Siegel
- Listed in: Wine
- Tags: wine reviews wine news cheap wine inexpensive wine regional wine $10 wine
Recent Posts
Winebits 103: Bordeaux harvest, Robert Parker lawsuit, deceptive wine pricing
ยท Harvest of the century: One of the Wine Curmudgeon's favorite giggles is the annual appraisal of the Bordeaux harvest from the region's winemakers. So far, in the last 10 years, we have had four harvests described as vintages of the century -- 200...
Wine review: Spy Valley Sauvignon Blanc 2008
New Zealand sauvignon blanc has become justly famous over the past decade, and many of us who pay attention to these things consider it to be the best sauvignon blanc in the world. The wines are fresh, well-made, food friendly and almost always deliv...
7-Eleven gets into the $4 wine business
The news this week that the convenience store chain was launching a $4 wine brand called Yosemite Road sent chills of excitement through the Wine Curmudgeon. Finally, there was a Two Buck Chuck equivalent that I could buy at a store just three blocks...
Update: "$10 wine is the new $100 wine"
The recession continues to pummel the wine business. Or, as wine business consultant Christian Miller of Full Glass Research told me recently: "I don't think the wine business is in denial. The differences have been too dramatic." At the beginning...
A virtual wine tasting -- and you can participate
This Sunday, at around 8:15 p.m. central time, I'm going to do a virtual wine tasting on Olivia Wilder's Art of Living Magazine on Blog Talk Radio.How do you do a tasting on Internet radio? It's quite simple, actually. I'll have a bottle of Bogle cha...
Wine of the week: Geyser Peak Sauvignon Blanc 2008
The Wine Curmudgeon has been drinking this wine for about as long as he has been drinking wine professionally. About the only thing that has changed in the past couple of decades is that the cork has been replaced by a screwcap (and regular visitors ...
