JC Penny has been a Bad Boy

Every so often you see a story which makes you scratch your head. For me, working on SEO for my own site, this was certainly one of those cases. JC Penny Slapped by Google So let me get this straight, one of the largest retailers in the United States is saying that they were in [...]

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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: Looking into a WIne of the Month Club as a holiday gift. Any good recommendations or promotions?

Would love a club that has a "red + white" option. Thanks!!

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Resolved Question: A few questions about Malia, Greece. Please help!?

...probably buy a few drinks in clubs when i'm out every night, I... and souveneirs/gifts. But that's about it. For example... say "local beer and wine" as you can probably tell I...

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A tasting of one of California?s top sparkling wine producers

Sonoma county is relatively well known for a number of reputable sparkling wine producers, who make bubblies in the traditional Champagne method (i.e. second fermentation in the bottle). In my mind, with all due respect to all other methods of getting CO2 into a wine, the method of Champagne is the only way to go for any serious drinkin'! And while nothing touches Champagne itself (with the exception of perhaps Italy's Franciacorta and Trento DOC), our traditional method domestics from Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino counties, such as Roederer Estate, Domaine Chandon, Mumm, Domaine Carneros, Schramsberg and Gloria Ferrer, are not bad at all, and offer really delicious and cheaper alternatives, and a sense of patriotism...

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What?s your ?electric chair? food and wine pairing?

When hanging out with fellow food obsessed friends and wine nerds, I often throw the following question out to the crowd to see the responses it will elicit:

If forced to choose, what would be your "electric chair" food and wine pairing?

In other words, what would you eat and drink for your very last meal on God's little green earth. Inevitably, names like DRC, Lafite, d'Yquem and Krug weave their way into the conversation, matched with foods like duck breast, Wagyu, Foie Gras, and Sturgeon Caviar...

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Getting the word out

With so much going on for Uncorked Ventures , I haven’t focused on my personal blog much.� Given that we are featured in the local paper today, I felt inspired to post a short blog. It feels good to get a little press. Both Mark and I have been working hard to get the word [...]

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