Seen that? - Texas Holds Up Wine

Filed in archive Best of on November 22, 2009

Texas Holds Up Wine at Celebrate Wine

Wine shops in Texas are going to have to stick to the law, and the Texas alcoholic beverage Commission is going to make sure they do. That means restrictions on importing wines. From MSNBC: The law imposes a ban against ordering wine from any location out of state. But until three weeks ago, Beck says, the TABC hardly ever enforced it. It had been under a 2001 court-ordered injunction not to [...] Read More


Illinois Wine Tours Takes to the Road at Celebrate Wine

I've often wanted to take a few days to tour around my state to the various wineries, but it's tough. Obviously, I don't want to go wine tasting and driving, and then there's the time, and heck with the cost of gas these days, well, I can barely afford to drive to work! So, I thought this idea by Sara LaFave for creating her own state wine tour via bus [...] Read More


Free Web Wine Club at Celebrate Wine

Okay, before you get too excited, you don't get free wine through this free wine club. However, you do get a lot of other cool things such as access to WineNav, a web-based wine touring software designed and provided by Oregon Wines.com. You can pick your route using a selection of wineries listed. The little bottles on the map indicate the location of a winery. It even has a way [...] Read More


Vinturi Helps Wines to Breathe Faster, Taste Better! at Cool Picking

At the Silver Spoons Emmy event, there were many cool new products. One of the most interesting to me was the Vinturi Aerator for wines. Typically this would be used on red wines but could be used on heavier chardonnays as well, this slim, sleek device is like a funnel and it aerates and brightens the flavor of the wine. By exposing it to air, the different flavors bloom and [...] Read More


Hot New WINE Gadget: CATANIA Wine Enhancer at Cool Picking

Ever gotten a wine headache or found a glass (or bottle) of wine that was too tannic or too young? Now you don't have to endure any of that (or the cost) courtesy of this cool new device called The Wine Enhancer. The Catania Wine Enhancer product line uses an entirely different technology -- not magnetic or metal alloys that can flatten or create a metallic taste. The Wine [...] Read More