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Available Episodes (82)
Agent Red from theWineSpies.com, Lesley from StSupery.com and Dave, Eve and Randulo chat about wine, the meaning of life and everything. 42!
Robert Mcintosh, Ryan and Gabriella Opaz and cohost DaveAC join Evelyne from winebrandsblog.com to talk about Spain. We hear more and more from the Iberian Peninsula with both high
Various ideas for seasonal wine enjoyment
We continue our investigation of the new tools for presence on the Internet
How wine lovers and wine professionals can connect on Twitter, LinkedIn and other netwroking tools and why you should care about this.
27 & 28 January 2009 Wine Pleasures Wine Tourism Workshop brings together European wine experience providers and tour operators.
The French Wine Growers Fair, London event. Also, more wine social media and networking.
The Wine Bloggers Conference '08 was an Unqualified success. We had input from several conference attendees and OWC founder Joel Vincent also weighed in with his reflections for next...
General info about email spam and specific techniques and suggestions for using OWC social networking features. Profile page, comments, forums, events and private messaging are discussed.
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How to make your own barrel of wine with Crushpad's "Fusebox" blending kit. Mutinieer Magazine and the youth view of drinking.
Adegga.com is a good example of the current social aspects of the World Wine Web. There is a deeper level to it, as we learn from Andre this week.
Wine isn't a new invention, it's been around for millenia and as such it has a rich culture of its own.
Amazon refuses to discuss the rumor. Meanwhile we discuss the branding effect of being on Amazon.
Alan Kropf on Issue 2 of Mutineer Magazine
How can OWC spearhead a movement to get wine info shared on the web? What is needed, what already exists?
Louise Heslop of the Wine Blog Research project joins us to explain what their project is about.
We'll hear all about it! Ryan and Gabrielle Opaz, Robert McIntosh, DaveC and many more weighed in on this terrific event.
What a surprise, a fictitious restaurant with a bad list makes the awards!
Mutineer Magazine has an original take on beverages and says it is "Not your parents beverage magazine". This week we grilled Alan about the origins and intentions of the mag.
Wine fiction, but especially non-fiction and the particularity of the Internet, consumer tasting notes and other information.
Programs and bodies that promote education, such as the Society of Wine Educators. Author, teacher and marketing expert Paul Wagner joins us for a wide view of this and other wine-related...
Back in the USA for a few weeks. We'll be discussing ethnic markets for wine. Zachary M.C. Harris of TheBlackWiner.com is our guest.
Varietal wines are all the rage now, even here in France. At least I am seeing several new series of them on market shelves.
What was it like when you grew up? What do you do to make your children aware of both the pleasures of wine and the dangers of alcohol?
Eve just got back from a conference on the subject of European women as new consumers of wine. Also, Bordeaux Wine Festival and more.
Fun and games, Baseball Hall of Fame, Cleveland, Bordeaux and a lot more.
News from Joel Vincent of the Open Wine Consortium about this October event in Sonoma, California
http://winebloggersconference.org
THe Wine Spies join us. What happened in New Orleans? Gary V. phones it in.
Wine and Web 1.0
Among other things, Snooth.com has innovated in the flexibility of their search feature. It's obvious this site was designed after considerable thought to make it useful and easy to...
WineQ.com is an innovative site that adds a social networking component to your interest in wine. You can join an existing wine queue or make your own. It's the sharing element that...
Special segment: Thomas Duroux, who today runs Chateau Palmer, spoke to us about his early career which included terms with Mondavi both in France and then Italy.
Evelyne talks more about the comparison between the old and new world styles of branding from her book "Wine Brands". The book is extended almost daily from its print version on www.WineBrandsBlog.com
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How true are the claims being made about moderate wine drinking, and should they be leveraged to market wine as a beneficial tipple?
Branding of wine is controversial. Here's an excerpt from Chapter 7 of "Wine Brands", by Evelyne Resnick.
Isn't wine like sex, what's the point of writing about it?
India, China, Russia and perhaps Brazil? We talked about how difficult it is for wine to flow between countries. Cultural differences, cuisines, customs. Luxury and brands are still...
The Decanter May 2008 issue has an article about why women do not usually collect wine, with a few exceptions.
I loved the story Becky Wasserman tells about how she was speaking at
Wine videos and why anyone cares about them. Why Gary Vaynerchuck is so huge in this space. Why most wine collectors are male. International Malbec Days in Cahors.
How are wines presented in the shop window in your area? Is anyone doing anything creative? What about local or national laws? What about the home page of online stores and how these...
A perfect area for disagreement between terroir and taste. The bottle and label are the first things the consumer sees. What are the impressions created by names like "Bitch!" and cute...
In France, monks were creating vineyards in Burgundy, whilst aristocrats
were tending their properties in Bordeaux and Champagne from the
Middle Ages right up to the French Revolution...
French Malbec, the original Malbec, is from Cahors.
Do women approach wine differently than men? Call in and let us know, or listen to this call and find out more!
Follow up to the First Impressions: Color and Nose, we now bring the glass up to the lips and take a sip and complete the tasting experience.
Before you drink a glass of wine, you look at its color and try to identify the aromas in the glass.
Guests interviewed describe what tasting older wines can be like and why they consider the Academie des vins anciens to be a unique experience.
Jamie Goode has been a longtime contributor to the WineLoversPage. He is an author of wine books, articles and of course created WineAnorak.com. He has started a wine video blog this...
Developing some ideas introduced November 3:
* Wine tasting versus wine drinking.
* Different kinds of tasting groups.
* Tasting formats.
* Mechanics, dynamics, psychology of tasting...
Choosing a bottle at a shop for dinner, or visiting wineries recreationally, are good ways to try a few wines. But how does the budding wine geek gain experience efficiently? Buying...
All about what terroir is, what some think it includes and what it might be.
All 50 states now boast wineries. Some of the most important in number are in Texas, Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania. We also talk about AVA, American Viticultural Areas.
News from all over Europe and wherever else we can scrape up harvest comments and conjectures.
Lazy Acres is a supermarket with a wine conscience. We talk to the man in charge, Bob Wesley.
Then to Gypsy Canyon, near Lompoc, California to talk to Deborah Hall about her historic...
More about offlines, tips, wine news and gossip and sharing food and wine on our weekly chat.
What better way to enjoy a summer day than to spend it with good friends and... good wine!
It's summer, finally! We need to talk more about Rose
Ok, not reallly ugly, but less well-known, along with Petit Verdot, Tannat...
tentative subject
Serious fun in store on this show as our resident home wine people meet Talkshoe CEO Dave Nelsen.
Alejandro Audisio joins us to talk about this wine producing country from his unique perspective/
Burgundy. Napa Cabernet. Many people consider single-varietal wines
(monocepage in French) the ideal in wine, expressing in simple purity the
character of a single grape. Others point...
Steve Edmunds joins us to shoot the breeze about the serious and the less serious aspects of winemaking, life and music. Also a short interview with Thomas Duroux, manager of Chateau...
A short report from Evelyne about the Vinum show in Oakland and Think Pink in San Francisco.
Vintage, what it means and what effect it has on quality, perception and yes, price of wine. Old wine specialist Francois Audouze will be one of our guests in this discussion.
David Lole from down under, Cynthia from New Mexico join us to chat about Muscat, Port, Madeira, Monbazillac, late harvest, Marsala, dessert wine and a lot of interesting background,...
Gary Vaynerchuk from WineLibrarytv.com joins us to talk about the perception of wine and how his videos are changing it.
This episode will feature an interview with James de Roany, Managing Director, Château Beaulieu (Provence) who is also general secretary of the CIVP. We talk about the origins of rosé,...
The Italians say that a meal without wine is like a day without sunshine, and we think they're right. It's arguable that no nation's food and wine go together as well as Italy's. We'll...
Corks and corkscrews, the 300-year-old closure system that makes wine complicated. Have you ever had to battle a corkscrew, and lost? What's your favorite kind of corkscrew. Tell us...
Wine goes with a lot of food, but what about the odd ones like exotic pizza, Asian curry, and a thousand other delicious dishes?
Is it possible to find values among these often high-priced wines?
Second module about California wine with Robin Garr being his usual reasonable self, un-trashing all the wines that Yaniger trashed (which is all except two. didn't you read the part...
Robin, Eve, David Bueker, Walter Nissen and Randy dissect California wines but basically agree that there are good wines for those who seek them out. Yaniger trashes all except two,...
Victor de la Serna interview. Also David Bueker and Robin Garr take us through Spain's wines and wine regions. A few digressions and laments as usual.
Wine in movies and more recently, movies about wine is the topic this week. Mondovino, Sideways, James Bond and more and a reminder about the 24 hour talkathon for Kiva.org
Synonymous with celebration, Champagne is a drink for weddings, birthdays, promotions, holidays and... anytime. What makes the bubbles, how it is bottled and how to serve it are a few...
Vigneron reports give us an inside look at how the year is going and how the grapes are growing. This episode is a short excerpt of the 45 minute Burgundy edition of the show.
Allen Meadows is a well-know specialist of Burgundy wines. His site is Burghound.com which features a searchable database of over 32,000 tasting notes. This is an excerpt of the 45-minute...
Back from Beaune where we hook up with the Burghound and visit a producer of famous Chassagne-Montrachet.
Wine and ancient Rome. The Languedoc and its grapes and wines. Syrah, the new star?
Also, wine lovers often know the best places in their area to eat, purchase wine or just visit.
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After some background on regulations in Europe and the new world, we set out a few tips to help you decipher the information overload that comes on a wine label these days.
Well known connoisseur of very mature wines (we're talking at least 50 years old) will tell us how he began and why he continues to share his collection with others in his Academie
