Ward did an excellent write up on a bunch of wine aerators he tested. All of the aerators he tested worked by pouring the wine through a contraption that would basically mix up the wine with the ambient air. Ted from True Taste Wine Aerator sent us a sample of his aeration system that works [...]
We’ve been getting more and more offers for advertising to our mailing list. We try to send just one email per week to the mailing list. Currently we have what I think is a good opportunity to test some of our recommendation algorithms and also different formats for these offers, so I’ve been sending quite [...]
Praxis Lodi Viognier 2007 Credit: WineTasting.com Region: Lodi, California Winery: Praxis Cellars Type: White Wine Variety: Viognier UPC: 647884992030 Find Prices at SuperWineSearch 3 Loggers 3 Comments 1 Tag We’ve just launched a feature to allow you to embed our wine data on your site. Similar to what you see int his post. Just look [...]
Finally launching an official WordPress plugin for WordPress. We’re launching with two main features: 1. The ability to add “wine badges” to your posts and pages via a shortcode. Similar to this post. Here’s how you would do it: {winebadge id=”54195″} (use square brackets instead of braces) 2. The ability to embed “wine lists” to [...]
You can now install the WineLog WordPress plugin through the plugins directory via your WordPress admin screen or by grabbing a copy in their online directory here: WineLog WordPress Plugin. View our plugin page here for details on use and future updates. Feedback is very much appreciated.
I’m going through old old notes under my desk today (that’s for the prodding, Kim), and thought I’d post this bit that I scribbled into a notebook on a plane ride a couple years ago. So here is a script for a WineLog web comic. I drew a little outline of the panels; it’s basically [...]
We have recently updated WineLog to use Twitter’s “OAuth” integration. This means that users who have integrated WineLog and Twitter in the past will have to resync the services by clicking this link. Users who haven’t integrated WineLog with Twitter yet can do so more easily than ever. Click here to log into Twitter and [...]
This post is mostly for folks who attended the Jon Newman Wine Dinner at Morton’s in Philadelphia last night. I’ll recap the wines we drank, but also talk a bit about Newman’s talk and the guest author Jeffrey A. Cohen. Here are the wines: (or search for the tag newmanmortons2010) Rigol 1897 Brut, Cava, Spain [...]
While I struggle to get my hands on a single bottle of the stuff to drink, 1 Wine Dude is actually in Cahors France (for the International Malbec Days festival going on) tasting and pondering on the Cahors marketing push. The dude concludes (emphasis his): Ignoring the discussion of whether or not enough Cahors wine [...]
We just moved recently, and one of the things I really liked about our old place was how our office was setup and the view of “the duck pond” across the street. So when picking the apartment we wanted at the new complex, the view was very important. It’s amazing to think that this kind [...]
