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Women are driving growth in U.S. wine consumption

This very interesting research also highlights the specific factors that will be behind the growth of the US wine market over the forecast period. We've heard it often before so the revelation factor has worn off a bit but it essentially says that the millennial segment is the future of...

Wine Confidential pops the cork on Sacre Bleu

Wine Confidential is a series featured on the CBC, Canada's national public radio and television broadcaster. Get 7 minutes into the feature and sandwiched between wine luminaries Robert Parker, Dan Aykroyd, Gary Vaynerchuk and Wayne Gretsky is a clever shout out for the brand Sacre...

iPad Debut

Other reaction includes hilarious Tweets from Twitter that run the gamut from @DaniGray: You can do things with #iTampon that you just can't do with #iPad - like biking, horseback riding and swimming, or the equally bizarre @nhangen LMAO Mad TV already beat APple to the iPad...Over at the Huffington...

Just what the Doctor ordered

Cancer patients going through chemotherapy often lose their appetite and lose weight, which can make them weaker as treatment continues. Many have argued for more use of medicinal marijuana to increase appetite, but another study shows an alternative that's cheap, readily available and legal. Yes, we present the wine...

The Whineaux foresees our 2010’s “Wine Moments”

Pretentious Wine Bastards will take a back seat to “uneducated bloggers.” I’ve never tasted purple in a glass of wine. Wine tastes like grapes. Some wines are sweeter, some are drier and some are downright foul but none of them taste like colors or grass or sunshine or any other...

December is Driving Impaired Prevention Month

At the risk of being a Holiday buzz kill, let's get right to it and let's be blunt, if you drink and drive, you suck. This is the reality. While wine isn't culturally as conducive to power drinking and outright abuse as beer and some spirits, it still demands a...

The Rogelio Castillo Interview: models feel the truth

so I guess SOMW was born out of necessity, out of defending our pride...tired of people thinking modeling is not a job, models are stupid, that modeling is just bullshit...well let me tell everybody that thinks that KISS MY...

Wine and Sex: The research looks good

Who among us is not going to be able to drink to this? Women who drink red wine enjoy better sex lives, a university study revealed yesterday. A study among Tuscan women discovered that one or two glasses a day could lead to a more fulfilling life in...

The Steve Heimoff Interview: Hippie to Oenophile

Ultimately we are all wine lovers and writers. There is some of the usual generational push and pull, but that's to be expected. I agree there has been some tension, but I hope that everyone can be reasonable and calm, and that we can have a conversation that's free from...