Good News For Floridians
Cheers to you Florida! You are now included in the new shipping laws so you can browse and get your wine shipped to your door…no problem! Via: Florida
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Wine Shipping Explained
If you still have some questions about how these new wine shipping laws work, take a look at these answers (it is about New York but most of it applies elsewhere). Via : Star-Gazette.COM
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After All These Years…They Still Agree to Disagree
Decades of discussion have made little progress so far. Can a Napa be a Napa if it is not produced in Napa? Hmmm. I personally like the idea of naming the region that the grapes/vineyard is located in. The more details I have, the more likely I am to identify a wine I like and…
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Wine in the waiting room? There’s an idea!
I don’t know about you but whenever I am in a doctor’s waiting room I have to make a conscious effort to “remain seated” and not bolt through the door and run like a maniac. It’s not fear, just a healthy skepticism…ahem…
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If you care to taste the wine…Utah?
Here’s a head-scratching anecdote about a wine tasting in Utah that had to proceed…well..without any wine! Read on via basicJuice
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A Reason To Pass on a Bargain
Well, we all have heard it ad nauseum, if it’s too good to be true…it probably isn’t. A word of warning to anyone thinking of investing in wine futures. Yes, no surprise here, there are crooks in every industry… via [FERMENTATIONS]
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The Good Cheer is Spreading to Rhode Island
Residents of Rhode Island have joined the ranks of the lucky who can buy their wine directly from a winery and have it shipped home. Provided, however, that such winery has forked out the $100 for the license. Here’s more by Corktease Contributor Tom Wark via:FERMENTATIONS: The Daily Wine Blog
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Some Like the Names – Some Don’t!
In France, as opposed to most of the world, you get your wine “coordinates” on the label to refer to the region where the grapes grow . There is an exception and it is Alsace. Long has tradition and law allowed Alsace to follow its own drummer and actually name the variety of grapes on…