To celebrate 10 years online, Wine Spectator is offering free access to it’s website until the end of the month (smart way to collect email addresses if you ask me). When signing up, they require an email address to send a link to. Since I’m not a fan of mailing ...

Forum: Social Hall Posted By: Mark Squires Post Time: 02-28-2007 at 12:06 AM

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I'm got a piece of that nasty cold going around that everyone has been trying to give me, so while I work my regimen of vitamins and homeopathic nose bombs, here's a brief set of gulps for your edification... First...

Culled from this list of kitchen tips . 14. Don’t throw out all that leftover wine: Freeze into ice cubes for future use in casseroles and sauces. 13. Cure for headaches: Take a lime, cut it in half and rub it on your forehead. The throbbing will go away. 1. ...

For the last scheduled Wine Blogging Wednesday (WBW), Alder at Vinography selected a white wine from the Loire Valley as the vinous drink of choice. In my recap (found here ), the first time I’ve been involved in a WBW by the way, I owned up to the fact that ...

You’d think old media would learn from its mistakes. Oh and they do make mistakes in print, on air, all to often. Yet they point the finger at bloggers for their failings. This month in Adelaide Tasting Australia re-ran the Out of the frying pan panel that ran at the ...

Thanks to a security hole in an older version of wordpress, and a hosting company that is slow to provide approved updates, a malicious script installed harmful links in a hidden part of this website. I was able to completely delete all of the malware, and upgrade the site. Just ...

Tonight was the Circle of Wine Writers Christmas party. Usually these events are hosted by the embassy of a wine-producing nation who then seizes the opportunity to ply the wine hacks and hangers on with booze from their country. This year we were due at the Spanish embassy, but because of refurbishment works we were relocated to the National Gallery (pictured), and a private showing...

Reader Sorin from Edmonton, Canada sent me a couple videos he has recently made but this one really impressed me as a great wine hack worthy of Lifehacker . Let us know what you think in the comments but have you ever seen anyone do this? No, me neither Open ...