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Video: Wine Shelf Collapses 12 Feb 2011 | 08:07 am
Watch as this poor guy flees for his life from a collapsing shelf of hundreds of bottles of wine. Is this a nightmare, or the best clean-up party ever? You decide:
Jointing a Chicken: A Moment in Vinous Clarity 3 Feb 2011 | 09:08 am
Today I have the pleasure of providing some meaty content on my friend Joe’s blog, Suburbanwino.com. It’s a post that combines my love for typos, cutting shit up, mangled quotations of Henry David Tho...
New Zealand Wine Day at Kenmore Live Studios Chicago 2 Feb 2011 | 12:35 pm
Waitangi Day commemorates an agreement between the British Crown and the native New Zealanders, the Māori. Many modern Māori have protested the celebration because of alleged unfairness in the treaty....
Untrodden Grapes: Millennials, Blah, Blah, Blah 20 Jan 2011 | 11:39 pm
There is a lot of talk about “millennials” with the suits. What do they buy!? Don’t they just download everything off bittorrent? Maybe we make a reality show where kids buy our products, in real tim...
Take the 80 Sips Challenge Chicago 20 Jan 2011 | 06:26 am
Bottlenotes and Cheeky Chicago are teaming up to challenge our midwestern palates to taste at least six different wines from the sponsoring wineries at a few participating Chicago restaurants between ...
Wine Pr0n: An Introductory Essay 18 Jan 2011 | 06:09 am
Most shower heads release about two and a half gallons of water per minute. I usually take about ten minutes, you know, depending on whether or not I condition my mane, which is in the preliminary sta...
Guiding the Blind 14 Jan 2011 | 06:00 am
I am a regular guest on Wines.com’s blog the Wine Crush Blog and in this installment I take on Dara Grumdahl’s technophobic non-sequitur, read on. In a column titled “No, There’s Not An App For That,...
What’s Your Favorite New Way to Learn About Wine? 13 Jan 2011 | 06:27 am
The path to being a wine rockstar is littered with dead sentences, you literally need to read as much as you drink, and you need to be drinking a hell of a lot. There’s important stuff you gotta learn...
Value Bordeaux is Not an Oxymoron 11 Jan 2011 | 05:00 am
The French, and Bordeaux wine in particular, have long cultivated an image of wanton elitism. The words Champagne, Luis Vuitton, and Douchebag, all carry an understanding of affluence before any menta...
Sauvignon Blanc, a Rant 7 Jan 2011 | 05:00 am
- Today’s post is provided by Vidas Germanas, a complete badass who is a regular reader and commenter on Brokewino.com. He hails from Chicagoland, and when he isn’t shooing migrant hipsters off of his...
