Tag Archives: Open Wine Consortium

Various Goings On in the World Wine Web

By winecase | Published: September 14, 2008
The fluidity of the world wide web is only surpassed, perhaps, by that of wine. OK, I’m reaching, here. It just sounded good. Yet, there is something true to that idea. Things can move fast, and in sometimes suprising ways, on the Web. For instance, thanks to a timely Tweet from Tim at Winecast, I found out [...]
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Would you like a little science with your wine?

By winecase | Published: August 22, 2008
After I posted about the incidence of cork taint in wines, and started a discussion on Open Wine Consortium about the subject, I did a fair bit of searching for serious sources about the subject – and also about other defects in wines and various types of closures. (A fair bit of that research, by [...]
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Got corked wine? We want your data.

By winecase | Published: August 8, 2008
A few days ago, I started a discussion on the Open Wine Consortium regarding the actual prevalence of cork taint in wines. It followed a previous blog post on data from the Société des alcools du Québec, our very own state monopoly, that suggests cork taint should be present in well below 1% of all [...]
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Wine Bloggers, getting (it) together

By winecase | Published: June 17, 2008
There are a lot of conversations going on on the internet, a lot of communities coming together through blogs and Web 2.0 sites, a lot of people talking and learning about subjects of common interests through social media. But in the end, there is nothing yet that can truly replace face to face meetings [...]
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