The last vintage wine ad we brought you was Orson Welles getting very enthusiastic about the Paul Masson wine he was advertising. Today’s offering is completely different, James Mason advertising Thunderbird wine. Read more »
REPORTING ON WINE, FOOD AND TRAVEL, BY MICHELLE LOCKE
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Friday Follies: Orson Welles wine commercial
Today we kick off a new feature, something fun for the end of your week. In this classic clip, Read more »
Hollywood and vines
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a celebrity in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wine, as Jane Austen might have put it had Jane been a wine writer in 2012. Or at least it seemed that way as multiple stars jumped into the wine biz. The...
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Vine Videos
Paso Wine Man burst on to the scene in 2011 with “Zinfandel: Paso’s Wine,” a video that had great production values and something even more unusual,
Two buck fifty Chuck
Attention bargain (wine) shoppers. Two Buck Chuck, the wine famous for costing $1.99 a bottle (in California at least) is now 2.5 Chuck. Yes, Charles Shaw wines, sold only at Trader Joe’s grocery stores, saw a price increase this month, going up to $2.49 a bottle after a decade under the two-dollar line. That’s...
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Best & Worst of 2012, Part 2: Best
In 2012, you liked TV, movies, slightly aging rockers and the cost of putting down roots in wine country. These were Vinecdote’s most-read stories of the year.
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Best & Worst of 2012, Part 1: Worst
Some days, as my old city editor used to say, you get the bear; some days the bear gets you. That was in Northwest Texas so it was more coyote than bear, but we understood each other. (Note: kai-yoat, please check your fancy pants pronunciation at the door.) In that spirit, here are the...
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Mad for Madeira
Now that we’ve settled Election 2012 — the Florida vote is in, right? — this seems as good a time as any to talk about Madeira, a wine with a political past.
You may be aware that Madeira, which comes from the island of that name off the coast of Portugal, was a favorite of Founding Fathers like Thomas Jefferson and company. (And my guess is Founding Mothers were willing to lift a glass or two as well.) But did you know Read more »
The Great Napa Valley Face Race
A hairy situation is developing this harvest. Not the weather, that’s been just about perfect. I’m talking a hirsute pursuit — the contest to see who can grow the best harvest beard in the Napa Valley. The competition is being run by the Napa Valley Vintners and you can go here to cast a vote —...
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A (musical) note on the 1855 Bordeaux wine classification
Perhaps you don’t need to learn the 1855 classification of first-through-fifth growths of French Bordeaux wines. But if you did, Read more »
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