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Wine Blogging Wednesday 55: North vs South

By winecase | Published: February 23, 2009
I’m so stoked about hosting the 55th edition of the Wine Blogging Wednesday. It’s a nice number, too. A kind of symmetry, even, since I joined in on this collective tasting event for WBW 44. As a Québécois frequently discussing wines with my American wine blogger friends, I thought that the perfect theme for “my” Wine [...]
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Twitter Taste Live: from sake to sherry, with Hahn in the middle

By winecase | Published: November 16, 2008
If you think that people who write about wine are all stuck up wine bores, you need to come on board and watch (or take part in) Twitter Taste Live, a live wine tasting event imagined by the folks at Massachussetts wine merchant Bin Ends Wine. A clever use of social media for marketing purposes, [...]
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Blogging Live from Santa Rosa, CA

By winecase | Published: October 24, 2008
Well, here we are. A whole bunch of bloggers, usually glued to their screen, pretty much alone in their office (or kitchen, or television room), writing for people from often far away, are gathered for the weekend in Santa Rosa, at the heart of Sonoma. We’ll still be glued to our screens, but all together [...]
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Wine Blogging Wednesday #48: Back to Your Roots

By winecase | Published: July 23, 2008
Great theme from Lenn Thompson, founder of the Wine Blogging Wednesday, to celebrate four years of this collective tasting thing (which begat a French heir called les Vendredis du vin, among other good things). He calls upon us to
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Matassa meets Montreal and Manhattan

By winecase | Published: April 8, 2008
My good friend and winemaker extraordinaire Tom Lubbe is hopping over the Pond, next week, to showcase his wines in Montreal and New York City. I’m an absolute fan of Matassa Wines, a Domaine I had the chance to visit. A great week walking through the (biodynamic) vineyards, tasting the grapes, packing bottles into cases, [...]
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