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Earlier today in Day of reckoning for Vinfolio I reported that founder and CEO Steve Bachmann had left and wondered what was next for the troubled San Francisco fine wine company. The following press release just in answers that question. It seems that Jean-Michel Valette MW and. More...
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Most of my tasting notes
are taken at professional tastings, increasingly straight on to a laptop , e-notebook
or even occasionally straight on to my Blackberry. But I do carry round paper notebooks like the one shown here so that I can take notes on particularly
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Vinfolio looked so promising when it was founded in 2003, a glamorous one-stop provider of an increasing array or goods and services: fine wine, wine storage, online cellar management and wine information.
It was based in San Francisco but was one of the first American operations to announce. More...
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Bierzo has long been one of my favourite emerging/emerge Spanish wine regions. I particularly like the grape varieties from which its wines are typically made: Mencía for its fragrant, rather haunting reds and Godello for. More...
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Ok, I cannot contribute too much on the dependency issue (I might be one myself), but here is my strategy for not drinking too much.
I used to drink a lot of beer before I started drinking wine,. More...
I am not a Pinot fan (I drink Chateauneuf / Rhone 95% of the time), but what I take away from this thread is:
- drink new world Pinot when drinking young Pinots
- drink Burgundy when matured
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The evidence from their clients on Germany, France, Belgium, etc. is very clear - the ordered and paid for goods are not delivered on time, and sometimes not at all. They are almost impossible to. More...






