Wine Bazar

Working in a wine shop close to the holidays is a bit like being thrown into the middle of a basketball game when you thought you were playing golf. Normally, wine shop jockeys can take their time with each customer, discussing pairings and flavor profiles. But starting around Thanksgiving, it’s a different story. Customers have wildly diverse needs: While one couple wants to assemble a case of …

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Wine.com, the nation’s #1 online wine retailer, today announced its second annual Wine.com 100 list based entirely on customer preferences. The only list of its kind is generated by ranking the top 1 percent of bottle sales of the over 10,000 wines sold nationally on Wine.com during the first 11 months of 2008.

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The new, 40,000-square-foot Argonaut Wine & Liquor store officially debuts on Wednesday.

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Wine Grape Growers Australia says the final production figures for last year have come in well above forecasts. The Australian Bureau of Statistics says 1.8 million tones of grapes were crushed nationally in the 2007, 2008 year, up 30 percent on the previous year.

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Wine and spirits producers are backing new moves from the government against problem premises and drinks campaigns, expected to be announced later today.

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This full-bodied red wine serves up an abundance of flavor for a modest price. It’s an easily accessible, ripe, chunky wine with bold flavors of blackberry, chocolate and herbs. It’s not what you would call an elegant wine, but this is just right for a cold December evening. Think of port without the sweetness.

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Record-breaking prices at a Christie’s wine auction in Hong Kong have shown that demand for fine wine remains strong, despite the global economic downturn.

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M ore than 500 guests wined and dined on Tastes from area restaurants. Foodies and socialites gathered on Nov. 5 for the Second annual Palm Beach Food &amp Wine Festival.

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For the many wine-drinking novices and wine-swirling experts who exist in the universe, there also exists a vast world of wine and accompanying information. The process of gathering the information, then deciphering it to help us make buying decisions can be a fun and easy task to some, but is a very daunting process to most. A wine blog can be a worthwhile and valuable aid in helping to make …

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Haywood Products, owner of the Eliot’s mulled wine brand, is to launch a new variant. Available for the Christmas period is Winter Warmer, a 14.5 per cent ABV blend of cherry and elderberry wines promoted as a “warming blend of rich and flavoursome country wines”.

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