TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• Calif: Climate Info Site for Agriculture
• Three Things You Didn't Know About Lodi Wine Country
• Lessons from Napa quake recovery
• Grow Direct To Consumer Sales *Sponsored Link*

• Climate Change and California’s Water: What Challenges Can We Anticipate?
• California to Welcome Rain, Brace for Flooding
• 5 Ways Californians Have Changed Their Behavior Because of Drought
• Water Conservation Among Many Exciting Changes At Vintage Nurseries *Presented by our sponsor*

• Tesco makes changes to senior management team
• Suspended Tesco executive to return as Dave Lewis overhauls team
• Scotch Association makes Pernod's Pringuet its new chairman

• Are Chinese Millennials any different from others with regard to wine?
• Approaching Seasonal Selling for Advertising Effectiveness That Lasts
• Who Are U.S. Shoppers Buying for this Holiday Season?
• 'Situational appropriateness' of beer influenced by familiarity

• Preparing online customer service for the holidays
• Snapchat is fastest-growing social app this year

• Consumers Must Get Smart Before Using Digital Currencies

• Fourteen rules concerning wine blogging

• Biodynamic versus Organic Vineyard Management: Sensory Showdown
• Spanish Researchers Trying To Create New Wine
• Champagne flutes’ tune now out of favor
• A good time for Cava

• M. Chapoutier, Part 1: The Collaborations
• Lee Lutes: Putting the ‘Star’ in Black Star
• Organic Wine with Bonterra Vineyard Director David Koball
• William Shatner Talks With Nancy Gneier On Brown Bag Wine Tasting

• Chateau Phelan Segur Keeps Tradition Through Evolution
• How Valais put the charm in Chasselas

• Business students’ growing appetite for food and wine courses

• Cider making a comeback in Virginia

Source: RetailMeNot.Com

TODAY'S FEATURED WINE

Wild Hog Vineyard: Syrah: Russian River Valley-California: Orchard View: 2012: United States

Not hog wild over Wild Hog Syrah.

Astringent, thin, sour lacking in mouthfeel, fruit or balance. Why, oh why do I ever buy wine at Whole Foods? $19.99. I can only hope this was a mis-handled or spoiled bottle.

 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.