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Vintuba TV -Win Zap Tickets

We are giving away 2 sets of 2 tickets to the 19th Annual Grand Zinfandel Tasting at Fort Mason ins San Fransisco on January 30th. Watch the video to see how you can enter to win. Good luck!

Is this book worth its salt and vinegar?

This book is all about excess. Money apparently so easily made, competing with excessive wealth by demanding attention in a bidding war for the unreal:

Reads like a whodunit. Fascinating. There are some chilling similarities to Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.

Vintuba TV – Review Fontanafredda Barbera

ChrisO takes a look at the 2008 Fontanafredda “Briccotonde” Barbera which heralds from the Piemonte region of northern Italy. Come see what $11.99 will buy you.

A Silly Champagne Award? I think NOT!

There are those who subscribe to truth-in-origin, and others who dismiss this notion as silliness. You could count the French, however you feel about them, most Europeans, the Slow Food Movement and perhaps Alice Waters among the former. The latter are of the flat-earth persuasion: the Mondovino coterie, the varietally obsessed wine lovers who discount the origins of wine and those who uphold McDonald’s uniformity of quality as something to attain as a goal.

Vintuba TV -Review 2008 Veramonte Ritual Pinot Noir

ChrisO reviews the 2008 Veramonte “Ritual” Pinot Noir from Casablanca Valley Chile. See what cool climate, Paul Hobbs, Chile and value wine have in common.

Vintuba TV-Festivus 2009

Vintuba celebrates the season of Festivus. In the true Festivus spirit ChrisO continues the tradition of the “airing of grievances” and the “feats of strength”. What does this have to do with wine? Well you are just going to have to watch to find out!!!

German Eiswein (Ice Wine) Harvest 2009

What is Eiswein? Well, for those of you who might not be familiar with this beautifully aromatic and sweet dessert wine here is a little background.

Although Eiswein/Ice wine can now be had from regions around the world one could say that Germany is the re-birthplace if not the birthplace of this unctuous elixir. While Germany often gets the credit for creation of ice wine there are indications that frozen grapes were used to make wine in Roman times.

Vintuba TV – Where do you buy your wine?

Vintuba TV – Where do you buy your wine? We are interested to know how many of you actually purchase your wine online?

The Magical World of Portuguese Wine

Entering wine country in Portugal is almost like being Alice falling down the rabbit hole. It’s a whole other world. It is also one of the most intriguing wine regions of the world.

Port wines have been famous for centuries, and its winegrowing area was one of the very first in the world to be legally limited by certain boundaries (called demarcation). Now Portugal’s wine producers are taking their table wines just as seriously as their fortified wines. And table wines from Portugal are among the top ten imports into the U.S. There are roughly 230 grape varieties grown here.

The de-Snobbing of wine (let’s discuss)

I read many blog post daily and I would say 90% claim to be bringing wine to the common folk, de-mystifying it, de-snob it, etc… Ok so this is a good thing I guess. Right?

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