Live By The Vine

12/13/2015

Amazon's Two-Hour Wine Delivery!?!
http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/12/news/companies/amazon-prime-two-hour-delivery-wine/index.html

Amazon Prime members in Manhattan can now order alcohol and have it delivered in two hours.

10/12/2015

09/26/2015

Where can consumers have wine shipped directly to their homes?
http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/50258

Much like finding a date, buying wine over the Internet is easier, safer and more popular than ever, but consumers who've gone through the process of purchasing wine online or over the phone from an out-of-state winery or retailer know that it always includes a tense moment of uncertainty, when the…

09/03/2015

Happy back to school season, everyone!

08/25/2015

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/25/travel/wine-regions-to-watch/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool&iref=obnetwork

Everyone knows the world's classic wine regions: Tuscany, Burgundy, Bordeaux, Rioja, Napa Valley. Now meet the upstarts.

03/26/2015

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/what-not-to-do-when-ordering-wine-2013-12

There are four basic components of the traditional wine tasting ritual people perform when they order a bottle at a restaurant: Sniff the cork, swirl the glass, sniff the wine, and hold the glass up to the light to inspect its contents.

03/16/2015

Cabernet contains far fewer sulfites than a can of tuna or a bag of dried fruit.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/wine-headache-chances-are-its-not-the-sulfites-1426250886?mod=e2fb

Since the government insisted that wine labels include a “Contains Sulfites” warning, folks have been blaming the compound for their wine headaches. Very likely, finds Lettie Teague, the cause is something else.

03/02/2015

I love cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

09/23/2014

"if anyone orders Merlot, I'm leaving."

07/17/2014

"Screwy" humor

06/20/2014

Millbrook Vineyards, NY named this grape growing area on their property as 'Lolipop Hill' because the arborvitae that line the path to the vineyard are chewed up from the deer in the area causing these trees to appear like giant lili pops! I was also asked to sign a bunch of bottles for their 'artist' series during their Tocai 2013 release party this past May.

03/25/2014

Spain takes gold as the largest wine producer in the world.
http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2014/03/25/spain-stomps-its-way-to-wine-sales-supremacy/?hpt=hp_t3

Ray Isle ( on Twitter) is Food & Wine's executive wine editor. We trust his every cork pop and decant – and the man can sniff out a bargain to boot. Take it away, Ray. Take that, Italy and France.