• Former Beringer Owner Texas Pacific Group Bids For Treasury Wine
• Hill Wine Co Bankruptcy Now In Chapt 7 Liquidation
• Will Legal Pot Impact Wine Sales?
• Welcome To The Vino Casino And Wine’s Shaky Core
• July Restaurant sales improve, traffic falls
• Two Buck Chuck Producers Deny Allegations
• Who really made money out of Rudy Kurniawan's fake wine?
• Argentina's wine production squeezed by inflation & costs
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• Amador winemakers hope fire’s impact is minimal
• Sonoma Valley Winery, disability group share strong ties
• Silver Oak to host Women for WineSense's Women in Wine
• Manton Valley AVA: Get to Know Us
• California Grape & Tree Fruit League changes name
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• The Trouble with Wine “Super” Stores
• When cheap wine tastes cheap
• Content Marketing Optimization: The Ultimate Guide
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• Downsides To Mobile Search
• Seeing 20/20 with LabelVision
• How a relaunch saved Foursquare from certain death
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• Why The Most Successful Organizations Have Women And Millennials In Charge
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• Blog Visits: How To Make Every Second Count
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• Wine's First Obligation Is To Be Delicious
• Is Wine-Tasting Junk Science?
• Obsessed With Vintage: Red Wine and Thinking Beyond The Year
• Franciacorta's "little" problem
• Cava Is Overlooked Everywhere but Catalonia
• The rising tide of Cabernet ripeness
• It's a shame Portuguese wine isn't better known and appreciated
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• Q&A: Anne Trimbach - Alsace's First Lady of Riesling
• Q&A: Gloria Collell of Mia Wines
• Getting to Know Richard Jennings
• Babcock Winery and Vineyards: The Cutting Edge of Vine Evolution
• Sommeliers Get Beyond the Big Three

• WSET student numbers hit new high

• Badly kept wine ages four times faster

• France Fails to Figure in World's "Best" Wine Regions
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• BC Vineyard on cutting edge of farming
• Virginia Wine — The Growing Divide?

• French wine producers turn to science for flavour
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• Aussie Wine authority confirms threat of Russian embargo
• Australia prepares to grow Korean wine market
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• Fermentation caused by living things? Balderdash!
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• Craft is about MADE in USA
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While creating this issue, I liked this song best: Gotta Have Rock And Roll  By Heartless Bastards.

REVIEW POLICY:

For winery tasting samples, gifts from friends or family or samplings at a party or event, review it truthfully, but only if I like it. If I have paid my own very-hard-earned money on a bottle, the gloves are off and it gets what it deserves ... whether perfect or puerile.