Wine Sediments

In this age of personalized, multimedia website extravaganzas, a low-tech yet fascinating site caught my eye a few months ago. Although lacking a snappy title, Hundreds of nice wine labels from the whole world is definitely worth at least one visit, and probably many. The rather mysterious site, apparently created in Switzerland by “winegirl”, exists […]

It’s always interesting to see how big wines have a great appeal on wine lovers from all the world. I think about wines coming from Bordeaux, from Bourgogne, from Champagne, or about the German’s Riesling or the Hungarian’s Tokaij.
During the last few years this kind of charm is ranging also on the most important Italian […]

Seeing how Wine Blogging Wednesday has bag-in-box and other non-bottle packaging as its theme this month it is a great coincidence that Fine Cooking magazine has an article on exactly the same subject. An email highlighted the piece just as I was penning some thoughts on Spittoon on the WBW theme.
My past experience of bag-in-box […]

How many wine blogs are there? Any idea? Me neither - loads and loads is the answer I think. We all have our favourites (headed by Wine Sediments of course!) but from the mass how do we sort out the interesting stories and posts? There two on-line apps that might appeal -
Wine Life Today - […]

February 24th has been set as Open That Bottle Night by the good folks at Wine Outlook.
The idea is that all those bottles you are saving for a special occasion need a special occasion, and what is more special than Open That Bottle Night!
Rummage in the cellar, under the stairs of where-ever you store your […]

Notes from a few wine pro’s, all of us thinking less about awards and more about a rewarding experience.
Tony McClung of Neil Rosenthal Wine Merchants,“I went to a tasting recently of an Italian importer that I respect very much… I left a bit concerned. I could see a lot of higher alcohol, over-extracted wines creeping […]

Hello everyone. I guess I’m the newest contributor to Wine Sediments. My name’s Mike, and I’m the proprietor of a blog called The Naked Vine. My shtick is to find decent, interesting wine under $15 a bottle. I hope I can be a good resource for some of you.
As I get underway here — I’ll […]

 
 
A link picked up from Wine Life Today (itself a site worth exploring) a link to a winery website for Caduceus.  
 You have to ask if anything could beat it in the Wine Blog Awards for it just has to be the best winery site around. I dread to think how much it cost to develop […]

Hearty congratulations to Alder of Vinography fame for winning the Drinks category of the Food Blog Awards for the third year in a row.
As a winner Alder receives a bottle of Lichido Liqueur donated by Lichido
On his blog Alder writes that “I’m sure for some people anything I say here will sound perhaps like […]

No word on his blog but a press release has just been released that announces that Tom Wark has joined the Specialty Wine Retailers Association As Executive Director.
Wark will lead the association as it works to build a national marketplace for retailer-to-consumer sales in the face of artificial and protectionist barriers to trade.
“Tom’s long background in wine […]