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two tiered — one on the value end and another for those that I am expecting quite a bit more from...

The New Two Buck Chuck?

Look out Trader Joe’s!  Walmart wants a piece of your Charles Shaw action.  They, as many others before them, are launching their own low cost label; Oak Leaf.  This from Wine & Spirits Daily:
“In a world where cheap wines generally hail from other countries, Wal-Mart’s private label Oak Leaf wine is joining the ranks of Two [...]

Wine Search Engines?

Have you used them?  I have used a bunch of sites to try and hunt down information but this article in the San Francisco Chronicle was the first I had heard of a subject matter specific search engine for wine
“Wine types have long bemoaned the fact that search engines don’t share our view of the [...]

The WinePod?

As someone that has always wanted to make wine this caught my eye when I was on WineSpectator.com 

“You know the story: Silicon Valley venture capitalist quits his day job to become a winemaker. That’s what Greg Snell decided to do–with no prior winemaking experience and no vineyard. “I was doing work in the semiconductor industry [...]