Wednesday, April 27, 2011

50% off the 2010 Cork?d Holiday Gift of the Year, TastingRoom.com

We?ve been searching high and low, hours on end, trying to compile the very best wine gifts for your loved ones this holiday season. As we immersed ourselves in research of vintage reports, scores, and the hottest new wineries, something occurred to us? guessing at someone else?s taste is a near-impossible task. That?s why there?s only one innovative product we?re endorsing as the 2010 Cork?d Holiday Gift of the Year? TastingRoom.com

TastingRoom.com allows you to give the gift of wine without having to choose a single bottle for the wine lover in your life. Instead, their unique wine samplers feature six pours from some of America?s most heralded wineries. Take their ?Taste Adventures? sampler, which has six pours from six different wineries...

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Resolved Question: Can a private club serve wine without a license?

Gift shop has Wine Tastings. due to a licensing...able to do that. if we change to a private club can we still have wine tastings?

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Changes??..Coming

I haven’t been around here to write in some time, but things are going to be changing a bit on this blog. To start, at Uncorked Ventures we are launching our own official company blog which should allow me to use this space to talk in depth about other factors in both my personal and [...]

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Do-Follow Ends

Over the past couple of months I’ve enjoyed the birth of my son and the advancement of my business, Uncorked Ventures. Since we started an official company blog I haven’t written here and frankly, I haven’t really decided on what to do with this blog. When I logged in today, I found another 857 comments [...]

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Resolved Question: CAN ANYPNE GIVE THIS A MORAL LESSON?

.... His appetites for food, wine, and women were as massive... weapon was a massive club. His customary garment a lion skin, head...he managed despite his obvious gifts. As time passed the focus ...

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Holiday Digestion

I can finally say that I have completed my digestion of the holidays both personally and business wise.� While I would have liked to hit the ground running as fast as I could on January 1st, it just didn’t happen.� Chalk it up to holiday travel, my first year of holiday sales with Uncorked Ventures, [...]

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Do-Follow Ends

Over the past couple of months I’ve enjoyed the birth of my son and the advancement of my business, Uncorked Ventures. Since we started an official company blog I haven’t written here and frankly, I haven’t really decided on what to do with this blog. When I logged in today, I found another 857 comments [...]

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Welcome to the Future

I won’t have a chance to get everyone an update on wider life for a few more days at the least (things are busy both professionally and personally, well definitely personally) but I was sad to see that social media darling Gary V has chosen to close Cork’d. Cork’d To Close It’s Doors It’s an [...]

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Resolved Question: Wine club ideas. I'm forming a wine club in the fine wine shop I work in. What do you think of this?

...quirky winemakers and up and coming wine regions. Monthly newsletter, ...of price and availability of products. Gift certificate for 20% off next purchase by e-mail...

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8 delicious Kosher wines to celebrate each night of Hanukkah

This year, Hanukkah begins early, marked by sunset on Wednesday, December 1, 2010. Hanukkah is known as the "Festival of Lights", commemorating Israel's freedom from the oppressive Syrian-Greek rule and the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem...It?s customary to eat deep-fried foods to celebrate the miracle of Hanukkah, in which a cruse of oil lasted for eight days instead of one. I can?t swear to this, but I'd guess a lot of American Jews, myself included, love the fact that while goyim only have one day of presents, we get ?8 crazy nights?, as Adam Sandler says in his first Hanukkah song.

Pairing wine with anything fried can be difficult. Fried foods need acidic wines to cut the fat. Here are 8 of my Hanukkah menu specific and ?fried food friendly? kosher wines, one for each night...

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Resolved Question: Coworkers party I do not want to go to?

... everyone to bring food/wine/gifts, because she keeps ...to the casino, going to the club downtown, or frankly just picking...

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A Tough Reminder

As I sit in the middle of what has to be referred to as the holiday rush, there are still signs that the wine industry as a whole has some issues. Outside of the standard complaints about big distributors and their affect on smaller production wineries, the direct shipping assault led by wholesalers through HR [...]

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