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The 2nd Annual Taste Around Town is here!

We want YOU to help us kick it off at the Launch Party and save 50%! Taste Around Town Chicago is back! Think “Restaurant Week” for WINE! May 14th-25th, we want you and your friends to get out to as many participating Chicago restaurants and wine bars as possible and taste these badass wines: California’s…

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Can Wine Save The Post Office?

With the Postal Service faced with huge deficits and service cuts, is it time to jettison old Prohibition era laws and let the Post Office compete evenly with Fed Ex and UPS? Those Post Office flat rate boxes would simplify wine shipping, 2 bottles, this price, 6 bottles, that price, no more weight and distance…

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Wine Bars Open At Chicago’s O’Hare

Cool – two new wine bars open at ORD for your pre-flight priming pleasure. Terminal 1 (the one where you’re treated to neon light shows & music while riding on people movers) gets Beaudevin Wine Bar & Terminal 3 gets Bubbles Wine Bar! Read the whole story …

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Top Five Things To Drink This Valentines Day

Lovers! In the words of Jim Gaffigan, “Without Valentine’s Day, February would be… well, January!” What should we be drinking with our hotties? Wine, of course – A.K.A. “the ultimate aphrodisiac“. How about Champagne? For Valentines Day it’s a no-brainer. They go hand-in-hand like wine and cheese. Like wine and chocolate. After all, Champagne’s for…

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Aussies approve laxative as wine additive

The Australian government has given winemakers approval to start using a chemical also found in laxatives! The same chemical that “helps you make” prevents crystallization and cloudiness in white and sparkling wines, and because there’s no labeling requirements for food additives in wine, we won’t even know it’s in there! However, it doesn’t alter the…

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Cheap Wine Finder 2.0

CheapWineFinder.com has a new look – sexy, eh? It’s cleaner, leaner & meaner, there’s less annoying ads, and just less junk in general – to make room for more wine!

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Christmas Wines

Looking for that “naughty” wine to deck the halls to? Wondering what to serve up under the mistletoe at your holiday party? Well, drop your Santa pants and check these out  … [AFG_gallery id=’2′]

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Have Yourself An Elvis Christmas

  Have yourself an Elvis Christmas                                                                   Get your Elvis wine at Elvis Presley Wine Cellars      

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Halloween Wines

Looking for that “killer” wine? Wondering what to serve up at your annual “pimps & hos” Halloween party? Well, check these “to die for” wines from Robert Monzombie and others … [AFG_gallery id=’1′]

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9/11 Wine in poor “taste”?

A 9/11-themed wine? Appropriate? Tacky? Only 10% goes to charity? What’s next – t-shirts? Coffee mugs? What do you think? Read the whole story …

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Drank some wine, saved some puppies

What did you do this weekend? I attended the 9th Annual Naperville Wine Festival and while I drank some wine, listened to some music, ate some food and met and talked to a bunch of fellow winos, I was doing so for charity – the Naperville Area Humane Society. For the first time in its…

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Robert Mondavi, Borone de Rothschild, Angus and Malcolm

The “No Wimpy Wines” slogan is already taken by Ravenswood, but now that Warburn Estate Winery in Southeastern Australia, has teamed up with AC/DC for a new line of wines, they have to come up with a gnarly motto. I surely hope these are not “easy drinking” wines. For a little more info on AC/DC…

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What WINE did your fave rocker want backstage?

The Who wanted French white and Buffett had to have his Chard (and preferred Pouilly-Fuissé). See what your favorite artist had in their “Backstage Rider” Read the whole story …

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Drink wine to prevent sunburn

Biochemist says “flavonoids” in the grapes can STOP the chemical reaction that causes cells to die – therefore – premature aging and even skin cancer. Read the whole story

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Wine: what does it NOT do?

For $60 you can use our favorite health drink and our motto to prevent signs of aging. Red wine for your eyes. Also available: an exfoliate! Good for your health, good for your skin! Drink it and rub it all over, baby!

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Make your cheap wine taste expensive

Drink it out of an appropriate and better-quality glass, decant it – some good tips here. We’ll add: chill those reds a little get some air into it using the “move” or an agitation glass like the Taste Of Purple Vino².   Read the whole story …

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The heat of summer and your bottle of wine

What does heat do to wine? 1) Wine can be exposed to very cold temperatures with very few ill effects. The cold can cause the cork to move, thus breaking the seal, this means you need to drink the wine by the next day, not exactly the worst thing in the world. 2) Exposure to…

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