‘The Wine biz’ Articles

Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen Recycled Art. 6134 nails 3621 Recycled Wine Corks See more at: www.facebook.com/scottgundersen.art Or once in a great while here: twitter.com/scottgundersen Curious about commissions or cork donation: [email protected] Watch the time-lapse video of Scott creating amazing art using wine corks. [Continue]

Wine Art and Gifts Recycled make for a greener holiday season. Perhaps a great new holiday tradition is creating a Christmas Tree using bottles of wine. This is currently one of our most favorite holiday festive features to date: a Holiday Wine Tree (or a wine bottle Christmas tree) and is certainly something most green-minded [Continue]

OK I’m going to make this short and sweet, I mean who really wants to sit around and type up a wine review after they have popped the cork or broken the seal on a good drop of wine? Taste Notes: A classically good Zin with: berry and cherry notes that finishes with a smooth [Continue]

As two-buck Chuck from Trader Joe’s is no more, trying to find a good replacement is beyond a worthy challenge. To find replacements I can look at joining a wine club, that is always a good option… for anyone. Primitivo is basically the Italian cousin of the same grape called Zinfandel in North America and [Continue]

After you have tasted a few thousand bottles of wine you tend to have an opinion. I am most fortunate to have had the opportunity to hang in the company of several people with legit Sommelier certificates and/or lived near some of the better wine growing regions of the world.  I can also say that [Continue]