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World Wine Groups Brings Region of the Month
2008-05-22 21:53
Since the beginning, our mission has been to support wine groups in their quest to explore wine with good friends. While we could sell wine on our site, or even sponsor some sort of wine club delivery, we would rather educate our readers on the various types of wines and send you to...
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Ambassador for California wine dies at 94
2008-05-16 15:52
After a long, dramatic life, Robert Mondavi died today at his home in California. He was a pioneer for the California wine industry and helped spread the word that the region's wines could compete against the European greats.
Read the full AP article here.
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Chateau La Nerthe wins the May tasting event
2008-05-14 11:04
Our evening included a wonderful tasting of Chateauneuf Du Pape red wines.
World Wine Groups Tasting Notes: Chateau La Nerthe was blind tasted against a Perrin & Fils and a Clos De L'Oratoire. All tested very well with the Chateau La...
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NOW LIVE!!! - Interview with Gary Vaynerchuk
2008-05-11 20:11
Got Tannins is fired up to give our readers a little THUNDER! An interview with our friend Gary Vay-ner-chuk!
Click here for interview - http://www.gottannins.com/news/gary-vaynerchuk-the-robert-parker-of-the-internet-generation/
The interview has already been...
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It's Not Where We Are, It's Where We Are Going - The World of Wine in 50 Years
2008-05-11 19:54
Berry Bros & Rudd (http://www.bbr.com/) have published "The Future of Wine Report", which takes a look at what the wine world will look like in 50 years.
Volume Wine -
Some of the interesting concepts include:
- the rising popularity of wines from regions such as China, India and...
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Coming Soon: Analysis of Costco's misleading wine scoring
2008-05-04 08:36
Gottannins is working on an analysis of Costco and the wines that it sells and the way it advertises them. Several readers have pointed out to us that Costco in certain instances appears to be misleading the consumer.
Stay tuned as we are awaiting word from Costco before the story goes live.
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How to Start a Wine Group
2008-04-29 21:44
Starting a Wine Group
GT: Every once in a while, we have to give ourselves a shameless plug: We are committed to creating a community of wine drinkers who enjoy tasting and pairing wines with good friends and good food. We are promoting a site that insists that our users create a "Wine...
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Interview with Ernie Els is Live!
2008-04-28 17:57
We are psyched to announce the interview that Got Tannins recently conducted with Ernie Els is now live!
Ernie is best known as one of the premier golfers of the 21st century (ranked #3 as of April 2008). What not everyone knows about the Big Easy is that in addition to time spent as a professional...
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Screw tops on French wine?
2008-04-28 06:58
GT - Do you know what village and chateau your Bordeaux is from? If you don't, chances are you may be opening a screw top in the next few years. Why does it matter? Screw tops guarantee that your wine is ready to drink. Traditionalists would insist that a good...
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Global credit crunch has little impact on high end wine market; highest amount ever paid for 27 bottles of wine
2008-04-20 05:53
WWG - According to Reutors London a Beijing based billionaire has paid a record $500,000 for 27 bottles of Romanee-Conti. Apparently, the last biggest wine transaction occurred over the same wine makers wine, when two collectors let their egos get the best of them and continued to...
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