The braille wine label by Lazarus Wine... useful and beautiful at the same time.

Trying to critique a wine but but can't find the right words? Beetroot perhaps? You need Carl Tashian's Wine Flavor Visualization: What is the relationship between wine varieties and flavor components? I culled descriptive flavor words from over 5,000 published wine tasting notes written between 1995-2000 in a major Australian wine magazine.

Maybe not the all time best corkscrews but certainly a cool collection thereof, and just in time for the weekend. By the way the images are served in a pop-up box, which may or may not annoy you depending on your attitude to pop-ups.

As we learned earlier, alcohol consumption increases with the volume of music in bars, and now it seems certain sorts of wine are better suited to specific music genres. Red wine especially seemed to enjoy more favour among a study group when accompanied by "powerful and heavy" music. Four types of music were played - Carmina Burana by Orff ("powerful and heavy"), Waltz of the Flowers from The ... Read full entry

The distribution of wine in cardboard containers, an idea that took off in Australia some 30 years ago, giving rise to the colloquialism "cardboard chateau", may not appeal much to wine connoisseurs, but is an idea being embraced by wine producers looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint. Now that wine producers are talking about reducing their carbon footprint - that is, the amount of carbon dioxide emitted ... Read full entry

It's all in the delivery, and how you carry yourself off, not what you actually say. Stick your nose into the glass. Sniff deeply, then close your eyes as though you're processing a lot of things simultaneously. Even if you smell nothing, act as though this drink is a cornucopia of sensations and you're sorting through all of them. Do not speak. Scent is pretty easy to verify, so ... Read full entry