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“The purveyor of mostly forgettable plonk.” This is how renowned wine critic Anthony Gismondi once described the British Columbia wine indus...

The Wine-Compass.com event database contains over 1,980 upcoming events in the United States and Canada. For those looking for wine festiva...

In September, MissourWineCountry.com is hosting the first National Norton Wine Festival in St. Louis Missouri. The festival consists of a...

There is a good article called Ripe Time for Fruit Wine published in the San Francisco Chronicle. Author, Derrick Schneide, briefly describ...

On Saturday, July 14th we attended the second day of Potomac Point Winery's three day Grand Opening event. The winery is located in Sta...

Here's a completely new concept. Wine in a can. Yes, that's right, wine in a can. Produced by a Dutch company, Horeca Europe Interna...

While browsing the Garden State Wine Growers Association website, I noticed that they had posted the winners of the 2007 Governor's Cup...

This past weekend, while wondering between concourses at the Charlotte Airport, I came upon the Yadkin Valley Wine Bar. The wine bar is spon...

On a recent trip to southern California, I stumbled upon an awesome wine shop in the middle of San Diego's GasLight District: The Wine B...

Texas is a grape paradise? Yes, insist many Texas wine growers. And considering that the state currently produces over 50% of the known spec...

Today we attended one of Maryland ’s best wine events, Linganore Wine Cellars’ Swingin’ Blues Wine Festival. This event included music by...

While driving along scenic Highway 101 we noticed the Carlsbad tasting facility for Witch Creek Winery . After a quick u-turn, we entered th...

The Wine-Compass.com event database contains over 2,450 upcoming events in the United States and Canada. For those looking for wine festiva...

Sadly, we just read about the passing of Juanita Swedenburg, owner of Swedenburg Estate Vineyard . She was the lead litigant in the 2005 Sup...

This week's peeve involves screw caps. Why the hysteria? We recently had a few wines that were closed by screw caps; the wines were exc...

I have started using a new site to open threads on things in the wine industry that bother us. Today I posted a peeve on the excessive pric...

On Saturday June 2nd, we attended the 2007 Vintage Virginia festival, which featured wines from over fifty wineries from throughout the stat...

I’ve been slow drafting a few articles, so here is another in the competition results series; this time from the Tasters Guild International...

A couple years ago, Paul Lukacs published a book " The Great Wines of America: The Top Forty Vintners, Vineyards, and Vintages " i...

We were recently asked why we publish competition results which would seem to contradict our policy of urging consumers to drink what they l...