December 10, 2011 Florida Jim Cowan?s 2011 Tasting Notes Archive-Part Two

The 2011 archive part 2 is presented by date the notes were compiled and submitted. Part 1 may be found here. Prior year’s tasting notes may be found here. December 10, 2011 A very nice dinner with friends included the following: 2006 Overnoy, Arbois Pupillin: Crisp, clean and deep ? perhaps not typical descriptors for [...]

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Olivia Munn Olivia Wilde Padma Lakshmi Paige Butcher

First Impressions of Virginia Wine ? Wine Bloggers Conference

It was also fun to hear several references to the Napa Valley. Once again as in Washington bloggers conference a year ago everyone is shooting to topple the king. I don?t see any Virginia wines available where I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Much of it is consumed in Virginia and much makes its way to Canada and the U.K. Ther is much more to learn about Virginia wines as the wine bloggers conference rolls along. Continue reading

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Paula Garcés Paulina Rubio Paz Vega Penélope Cruz

A Wine Publicist's Vow of What He'll Never Do

As a publicist working in Northern California in the wine trade, there are certain things I come to vow never to do. While many have to do with my trade, others have to do with the result of working in...

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Rachel Nichols Rachel Perry Rachel Weisz Radha Mitchell

It?s Time For Radical Simplification of Old World Wine Labeling

I’m a traditionalist but also a realist. And I think now is the time to shake up the centuries old wine labeling and classification systems that have stood as a barrier to selling many Old World wines to American consumers. Case in point is Germany where a tradition of bad Middle Ages typography continues on [...]

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Mandy Moore Maria Bello Maria Menounos Maria Sharapova