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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
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The most popular stories of the past year indicate that with all that happened in 2008, we really just wanted to be distracted by a pretty face
Posted: December 31, 2008
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Plus, a new documentary on Le Cirque, multipurpose eco-friendly wine boxes, a winery unwittingly joins the bottled water business, an economically optimistic new wine and a bistro that babies its customers, literally
Posted: December 18, 2008
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Plus, Iron Chef wines not suitable for endorsement by Iron Chefs; most of the French now frown on wine; grand theft solar panel at Napa's Honig; and Sonoma Valley Vintners gets in the holiday spirit
Posted: December 11, 2008
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Plus: The Michelin dining guide takes on Hong Kong; Yquem supersizes the 2007 vintage; Domaine Drouhin unveils Oregon's largest solar energy system
Posted: December 4, 2008
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Plus: Drinking wine to feed hungry children and an Elvis sighting in Paso Robles
Posted: November 26, 2008
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Plus, a dentist visit to look forward to; making Champagne the centerpiece, literally; a thief with good taste and bad planning; good news and bad for Michigan wine lovers
Posted: November 20, 2008
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Plus, A tattooed tribute to Pétrus, "Trotting" out some lessons in wine service, alpacas named for grapes, USB does an end-run around the TTB and spitting for fun and prizes
Posted: November 12, 2008
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Plus, French fries help power a vineyard truck, blue laws put a damper on election night wine consumption, satirical cartoonists spice up Bordeaux and a California winery helps some misunderstood canines
Posted: November 5, 2008
