Last week, I had the pleasure of receiving an e-mail from Jim Gordon, all-around nice & talented guy, editor of the wine industry stalwart publication Wines & Vines, and Director of the Symposium for Professional Wine Writers, containing the following tidbit: “Congratulations! The winners of fellowships for the 2010 Symposium for Professional Wine Writers at…
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"Must Be Present To Win": Sotheby’s To Sell the Cellar of Lloyd Flatt
If you enjoy what are regarded as some of the world’s most prestigious wines, and happen to have in excess of $600,000 lying around, then you might want to make your way to Sotheby’s in New York on March 10. That’s when they plan on selling the wines from the cellar of famed wine collector…
Austrian Wine Sweepstakes… via Facebook… and twitter
Those of you who dig Austrian wine (did someone say Grüner Veltliner? no? it was just me then…) and are looking fro something to do for seven days in 2010 might want to check out the Austrian Tourist Office’s “It’s Got To Be Austria” (yeah, I know, the name is a total #Fail) sweepstakes being…
Guy Who Possibly Hates Wine Blogging to Give Talk on Wine Blogging at VINO 2010
Well… this is… interesting. Fellow wine fanatic and blogger Robbin Gheesling passed this tidbit onto me earlier this week: Remember Anthony dias Blue? He’s the guy who just this past summer had this to say about wine bloggers: “…bitter, carping gadflies who, as they stare into their computer screens and contemplate their dreary day jobs,…