From the monthly archives:

April 2006

Minnesota Opens Online Wine Sales

April 6, 2006

As I blogged last year, there is an important case here in my home state that challenges the protectionist law preventing wineries from directly soliciting and selling over the Internet to Minnesota residents. On Monday, this law was ruled unconstitutional and such direct sales can now begin. This is especially important for small wineries that [...]

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Live Austrian Wine Adventure This May

April 5, 2006

Hot on the heels of Lenn’s announcement of tasting wines from all 50 States, Beau from Basic Juice is doing him one better by blogging his way through Austria this May and June. Better yet, Beau will be sending back audio for me to build special editions of Winecast around during his journey. Expect to [...]

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Winecast 56 – Wolffer Estate Vineyards

April 4, 2006

Today’s podcast is another vintner profile show with a discussion with Wolffer Estate Vineyards winemaker Roman Roth.
Show Notes:
00:23 – Welcome and show theme
00:35 – Wolffer Estate Background
01:24 – Discussion with winemaker Roman Roth
25:03 – Tasting Notes
25:15 – Wolffer, La Ferme Martin, Chardonnay 2003 ($13.50)
25:39 – Wolffer, Chardonnay, “Reserveâ€Â? 2002 ($19.50) +
26:06 – Wolffer, Chardonnay, “Estate [...]

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California Wine Sales Soar in 2005

April 4, 2006

The Wine Institute released an interesting report yesterday about the growth in California wine shipments in 2005 fueled by “Sideways� inspired Pinot Noir sales and the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on direct wine sales to consumers. While we still have a long way to go on the direct shipping front, it will be interesting to [...]

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I’m back; did you miss me?

April 1, 2006

Sorry about being off the ‘net for a while… an unplanned outage after a server upgrade knocked Winecast out late last night my time. Seems to be back in normal operation, but I am now doing regular tar dumps and database backups

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