Category Archives: wine blog

Wine for Haiti at PalatePress: great lots for a great cause

By Remy Charest | Published: January 23, 2010
I’m just catching up on this after a crazy week, but it’s still time for you to combine your love for wine and your humanitarian spirit, thanks to the Wine for Haiti initiative launched a week ago by PalatePress. PalatePress publisher David Honig set the initiative up right after the earthquake, pledging all proceeds to [...]
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Conversations with winemakers on Twitter

By Remy Charest | Published: December 31, 2009
Yeah, I’ll admit it, Twitter sometimes keeps me from blogging more. When fatigue sets in, it’s easier to keep to the under-140-character format, and just stay with the conversations and the flow of information, rather than piping down and getting that blog post finished. Mind you, as I look back on 2009, I must also point [...]
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A case of Canadian wine on Palate Press – and thoughts on the Canadian Wine brand

By Remy Charest | Published: December 19, 2009
Busy week on the blogging front for me, as I contributed a sizeable article on Canadian wines for Palate Press, and started The Food Case, the companion food blog to The Wine Case. And that’s not counting the amount of tinkering involved from moving The Wine Case to its new winecase.ca address. Energy-consuming, for sure, [...]
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A season of wine conferences: Santa Rosa or Dallas anyone? Lisbon maybe?

By winecase | Published: July 18, 2009
Next Friday, July 24, 2009, the second edition of the Wine Bloggers Conference will get started at the Flamingo Resort in Santa Rosa, California (again). Last year’s inaugural conference was a sold out event, with some 170 participants, and this year is sold out again, at an increased capacity of 250. The conference program brings back [...]
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Everybody's talking about natural wines – thanks, Saignée!

By winecase | Published: July 6, 2009
How do you celebrate a year of blogging? With a month of blogging, of course. A special month of blogging, I mean. Like the 31 days of Natural Wine put together by Cory Cartwright of Saignée, one of the most interesting wine blogs around. He asked a number of other voices of the online wine world [...]
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