... in the wine industry and any way to make a guest remember their visit to your winery in a positive way ... are simple ones: walk the guest out to their car and carry their wine for them; call and make reservations ... /tasting room/B&B know that your winery did the recommending). The theme is one of personalized service, of making the folks that stop by to taste and buy your wine feel special. I’ve been looking...

Laura Cunningham, Thomas Keller’s life partner and the service half of the Keller Empire equation, is leaving the French Laundry and Keller’s other venues. [S.F. Chronicle] Everyone is getting into Alcoa’s glass closures, which I’m already on record as thinking are awesome. [Decanter] Dan Aykroyd gets into the wine biz. [Toronto Star...

Here are some good, basic tips on how to get the most out of your wine when you’re entertaining at home from Erin McKee, Jose Garcia, and Mark Jardarian, our tasting room staff. They offer practical suggestions for selecting the glasses, deciding on the serving temperature, knowing when and why to decant and more. Text: Hosting a Tasting at Home Download Standard Podcast...

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Lange 2005 Pinot Noir: Holy crap. That's a good wine...

The New York Times has an excellent article [free registration required] about the whole sphere of the 100-point wine scoring system. Required reading for any wine enthusiast...

A fantastic buy at $13 a bottle, Toad Hollow's Erik's the Red is a massive, full bodied, and downright festive red wine. It is made up of 15 different grapes and may well be the perfect table wine for any occassion. It is fruity - with ripe...

The title of ‘Wine Tasting’ was a bit misleading. What Casa Ludovico held was a cuisine and wine experience. Most wine tastings are pretty similar. I expected an array of five or six wines, a few plates of bread and crackers, a bunch of people standing around talking quietly among themselves while...

Tomorrow (6/14/2005) a local Italian restaurant is having a wine tasting. I will be there to see what they have to offer. I believe there will be some more affordable wines involved although I know a few of the offerings will be rather expensive but I am hoping to find some values...

... on the wide topics of wine here given that it’s one of the central themes here, so I’ve added subcategory tags to the Wine category for Appellations & Vintages , Ohio Wine , Wine Blogs and Wine Science . I was thinking about adding a few more subcategory tags, such as Wine Law & Policy or Wine Events. My ... . Those two that I mention perhaps? A wine reviews tag separate from the general reviews category...