Here’s an interesting story in the Baltimore Sun on the impact of the film, “Sideways“, on wineries and other businesses in the Santa Barbara wine country. This ties in nicely with my review from yesterday’s show.

This week’s show is all about Pinot Noir, featuring a wine lover’s review of the film, “Sideways“, and tasting three Pinots from California and Oregon:

- La Crema, Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2002 ($18)
- Erath, Oregon Pinot Noir 2002 ($15)
- Beringer Founders’ Estate Pinot Noir 2002 ($9)

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On this week’s show I taste three Dolcetto from the Piedmonte region of Italy and showcase 2 podcasts.

- Stefano Farina, Dolcetto di Diano d’Alba 2001 ($9)
- Cantine Giacomo Ascheri, Dolcetto d’Alba Nirane 2002 ($13)
- Marchesi di Barolo, Madonna di Como, Dolcetto d’Alba 2003 ($16)

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This morning I noticed that the first episode of “Grape Radio�?, another podcast devoted to the world of wine, had been posted. I think this is great news for the category and for us wine lovers and encourage Winecast listeners to check their show out.

Best of luck, Brian, Leigh and Jay!

Today’s show is all about Riesling from Germany, tasting:

- Avelsbacher Hammerstein Kabinett 2001 from Weinbaudomaene Trier ($13)
- Bernkasteler Badstube Kabinett 2001 from WWE. Dr. H. Thanisch ($12)
- Schloss Vollrads Spatlese 2001 ($25)

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A short update on news, comments and upcoming changes at Winecast.

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OK, so I’ve totally started over and reloaded the database, and the problem with the feed ended up being the Wordpress enclosure hack that I did not move over correctly. Anyway, every aggregator I’ve tried has worked so I think we are back to normal. Let me know if you can’t get the mp3 files with your ipodder via email.

Thanks!

It’s clear that something is wrong with my RSS feed and many iPodders are not picking up my enclosures. The time of tinkering with the feed PHP file is over and I will be deleting the site and starting over from scratch. You will notice outages from this afternoon, US Central time, as I do the installation.

Sorry for the disruption, but none of the incremental steps have worked thus far…

I review wine software for the Palm OS, a couple of stories from the wine world and taste three Australian Shiraz:

- Rosemount Estate Diamond Label Shiraz 2002 ($10)
- Yalumba “Y Series” Shiraz 2002 ($12)
- Meerea Park “The Aunts” Shiraz 1999 ($16)

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Well, it took most of the afternoon, but the move to Bluehost was successful. I tried to install the latest beta versions of Wordpress without success, so I just installed the stable version available for auto-install.

I’ve tasted the Shiraz and finished my notes, but my son is recording right now for The Avid Gamer podcast, so I will do mine tomorrow before the Vikings & Packers take the field.

Cheers!