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Plus, the Batali Foundation premieres with the latest Disney-Pixar offering, two new takes on environmentally-friendly wine packaging, Paris pawns fine wine and more
Posted: May 14, 2009
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Plus, New York restaurants battle for bragging rights in the D'Artagnan Duckathlon, a boutique Sicilian winery gets an underage fan in on the act and the latest scientific advance in wine identification
Posted: May 7, 2009
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Plus, country music star Martina McBride gets into the winemaking business and the Ed Hardy brand rears its tattooed head in French wine country
Posted: April 30, 2009
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Plus, a Finger Lakes winery loses a tasting room, a video game for wannabe winemakers and a new wineglass for fans of impractical gadgets
Posted: April 23, 2009
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Plus, Paris Hilton's job security, méthode mafioso and how to live like a wine rock star
Posted: April 16, 2009
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Plus, an entirely new take on flying winemakers, Cornell's teaching winery officially opens, and Dom Pérignon gives us something to gossip about
Posted: April 9, 2009
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Plus, as opening day approaches, the Mets and Yankees continue the battle for stadium kitchen supremacy, chapter three in the war of the rosés and a Hong Kong auction sets an unexpected record
Posted: April 2, 2009
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Plus, the rosé rules get another revision, Jess Jackson finally gets to open his new winery, sleeping it off inside a wine cask and a $10,000 Idaho Cabernet
Posted: March 26, 2009
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Plus, bag-in-a-box wine gets an artistic upgrade in France, a robot learns to prune vines, proprietary naming rights go overboard and an Australian crime syndicate targets Penfolds Grange
Posted: March 19, 2009
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Plus, tragedy for a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award winner, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board wants to make your retail wine shopping more pleasant and French teenagers will have to wait a little longer to buy their first bottle of wine
Posted: March 12, 2009
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Plus, green bubbly for the White House, a California kosher cult Cabernet and Napa's finger-puppet icons
Posted: March 5, 2009
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Plus, the Mets may have signed another culinary heavy hitter, Tina Fey and Steven Spielberg linked by a bottle of Moët, and wine marketed by flesh-eating zombies
Posted: February 26, 2009
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Plus, Foster's Group's wine division not for sale … yet, Marco Fantinel rings the NASDAQ opening bell, Napa Valley Grapegrowers crown a pruning champion, and Clos du Bois supports women's heart disease awareness
Posted: February 19, 2009
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Plus, Usher's wine bar succumbs to the recession, a New York winery succumbs to politics, and an Aussie wine's new Osama bin Label
Posted: February 12, 2009
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Plus, A Grand Award winner loses a legal battle, and then a wall, British artist Damien Hirst designs a wine label and Zachys partners with the New York Mets
Posted: February 5, 2009
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Plus, the Vins de Pays d'Oc and British thieves show their disdain for Coca-Cola, a new satellite has an eye for vines and Whole Foods wants your used corks
Posted: January 29, 2009
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Plus, pairing the inaugural wines with a Lincoln-inspired menu, Fred Franzia is denied his get-out-of-jail-free card, a Grand Award winner waives corkage, and a curious merger of wine and car
Posted: January 22, 2009
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To mark today's presidential inauguration, we look back at the Unfiltered items that have featured Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States
Posted: January 20, 2009
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We predict the wine-related news and celebrity gossip you'll see in the year ahead, from the effects of Obama-mania to the winner of the Super Bowl to Scarlett Johansson-inspired stemware
Posted: January 15, 2009
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Plus, caveat emptor at a Paris auction, ill-advised jug-wine anesthesia, St.-Emilion gets un-reclassified, again, and Foster's unveils the largest winery-based solar energy system in the U.S.
Posted: January 8, 2009