Submitted to Wine Life Today is a link to Wine Spectator’s list of 90+ rated wines under $15 ... ! Here are a couple links to retailer (via Wine Searcher or Wine Fetch) EVANS & TATE CHARDONNAY MARGARET RIVER CHARDONNAY 2004 Ferrari-Carano Fumé Blanc Sonoma County 2002 Enjoy the Wine Life! (P.S. – Vivi’s Wine Journal is in no way associated with these wine shops and makes no garuantees...

While the wine blogosphere isn’t exactly a market maker it does represent, more so with every new entrant, a nice cross section of wine drinkers that can relate to each other and forms a loose social network around a common interest – wine.  Wine bloggers may not be fast friends but if a couple ... . Winecast.net’s Tim posted about how a fellow wine blogger, Cam of Appellation Australia , posted...

... news so I experimented with a wine version called Wine Life Today .  For the limited marketing (i.e. ... interesting wine news around.  As soon as I can get out of this busy period of my life we’ll see if we can’t kick that up even more. But there were a couple other “web 2.0” sites created with a wine theme ... similar, and all lacking something.  One day while I was developing Wine Life Today , I thought about...

Juice blog , and current Wine Life Today BETA tester, Erin contacted me about exchaning links ... of increase of the wine blogosphere. First,  I do believe that Erin and I share the same stock photo of a wine glass in the background of our blog headers…this shows she has a great eye for nice wine photo and how to use it in an artistic way  (look at the Vivi’s header). Second, the content...

It seems that the Wine Magnet idea is getting new life and a new PR campaign from another company ... . Vinography had an article speculating about how warming a glass of wine in the microwave isn ... works.  A microwave is 1000W of electromagnetic power coursing through your wine for 20 seconds or so.  A magnet on the neck of a bottle is milliseconds of magnetic fields on your wine. Anyway...

I’m working on the WBW round-up and I just wanted to let everyone know that the trackbacks came through.  I’ve been holding them up from publishing because trackback SPAM on this service (TypePad) has been smearing Vivi’s as of late  so they all come to me for approval before they ...

... digress. My wine drinking in earnest began (get ready for another groan moment) with White ... with Wine Spectator.  Yeah, yeah, advertising dollars and missing small wineries, blah blah blah ... a newsletter that will give you the ratings of wines before they hit the newsstands. Find a wine in there that retails for around $20 and is rated really high (90+) Now go to either WineFetch.com or Wine...

... is a man who has served his fair share of wine in his lifetime. Henri Jayer, world famous maker ... rejected almost half his crop to salvage his best wine, Rolin recalled. The son of a winegrower ... . Jayer. Red wine helps fight Alzhiemers. Hey, did you know that Pinot is red?! At the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, laboratory mice given Cabernet Sauvignon-based wine over a seven...

The June/July issue of Gourmet Traveller Wine is out and the main headline reads ‘Big Red Issue’. Hands up if anyone hasn’t seen this on the front of a wine magazine before. The magazine has a history of giving Tasmanian plenty of positive coverage but there isn’t as much in it this time around. A brief bit in the News section reports on Andrew Pirie’s plans to increase production...

A staggering amount of information is contained in the 580 pages of the latest South African Wine Industry Directory (Sawid), now available. A must-have tool, Sawid 2006/7 provides contact details, facts and figures to keep professionals in the wine business informed about the who’s who and what’s what in the industry...