Bob Guccione Jr. wants in the wine publishing business
"For the first time in 50 years characters in rock and roll really don't stand for anything. Music has become more manufactured than a Ford Focus ... The culture of wine is rich and fascinating. There are more rock stars in the wine world than there are in...
Cabernet Sauvignon; King of all Grapes
H. Marisol Ramirez is the Associate Producer of Merlove, a documentary about Merlot wine, Director of Guest Services at Darioush Winery in Napa and an admitted, hopeless oenophile. With the imminent introduction of our own Sacre Bleu, Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon, we thought an homage to the grape would be...
Ari Herstand is California dreamin
I never wanted to sign to a label. I still don't feel I want to at this stage. Many of my friends' bands have been screwed over by labels and I like holding onto the rights and control. I plan to continue to build my career independently until I've built...
The perfect pool wines
Let's begin the search for the perfect pool wines with the obvious. This pool is in Japan and the pictures taken back in 2007 but it is indicative of the importance of wine in the Japanese culture. If the health benefits of drinking vino are so apparent, logic...
Good wine but your date is in ruin?
Your whole evening is turning into a serious douche situation. You know the drill. The guy resembles nothing like his online avatar. He's not 6' 2" and those are probably plugs, plus you have serious doubts about the whole winner of last year's Boston Marathon story, you...
Leah Hennessy talkin wine and her g-g-g-generation
I wrote the open letter because I think Steve Heimoff's post represented an attitude among individuals in the wine industry of frustration and head-in-sand reactions to this nascent focus on younger drinkers. It reminds me of not-so-long ago when the same people had the same reactions to facebook..I find it...
Musicians and the love for Vino
Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam loves his Vino. He routinely strolls out on stage with his notebook in one hand and a bottle of wine in the other. In a 2007 interview in Rolling Stone magazine, Vedder was asked about the wine he drinks on stage. His brief admission that...
Wine is the “patient perk” at Dallas Floss
Who among us hasn't equated a scheduled dental appointment with a certain gulag type glee? It's fairly typical, isn't it? Some of the common concerns include fear of injections, the anaesthetic not working, concerns about unnecessary treatment and anxiety about cross-infection, the obligatory hygienist lecture about...
