Wine Reviews and Accessories

The holiday shopping season may be over, but even after the holidays half of all the wine shipments recorded at Wine.Com are gifts.  In response to customer requests for wine gifts, Wine.Com is offering several unique wine gifts, gourmet wine gift baskets, and collectible wine Wedding Trios at great values during the month of January [...]

Pennsylvania shoppers just got lucky.  They can buy wine through vending machines.  Some connoisseurs may shun something like this, but if they are selling good quality wine, then the convenience can’t be beat. Pennsylvania is one of nine state governments involved in retail alcohol sales, and this is one way to allow the sale of [...]

This is a wonderful idea to zest up your summer desserts. New York Daily News.Com It’s a fruit cup made with jellied wine called, “Broken Jellied Wine with Summer Fruit.”  It was created by Chef Deborah Madison, author of “Seasonal Fruit Desserts: From Orchard, Farm and Market.” What is jellied wine?  You are literally making [...]

Skip the necktie and socks. This year, what Dad really wants is some good wine online! Father’s Day is a little ways away and gives all of us plenty of time to give Dad something worthwhile, and something he will really enjoy. One of the most common complaints that most Dad’s have is that sometimes [...]

They’re The Cork Dorks, and they’re here to boost your wine knowledge. Topics include: Ways To Learn More About Wine, Why French Wine Remains Special, Important Wine Temperatures, and more. Guests include Marianne Frantz of the American Wine School. As Seen On Public TV! Dan Greathouse and Keith Morris are two guys who have been [...]

For those of you who are real wine lovers, it’s time to stock up. Wine.Com is running a “1 cent shipping” sale on all orders over $99. You can’t beat a shipping sale. In some cases you save more on low-cost shipping deals than on the actual sale of the wine itself.  1 cent shipping [...]

It was just a year ago that Amazon announced it was launching a wine venture with California’s Napa Valley and other U.S. regions wineries.  Amazon has not released any details, but the company did announce that the program has ended. It was always a wonder how Amazon was going to deal with the issue of [...]

The big news in the wine industry this week is about the social network, Twitter.  Twitter is getting into the wine industry by partnering with Crushpad and launching two wines on the Fledgling Wine label for charity.  The chosen charity is Room to Read, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that is focused on education and [...]

With the economy still struggling along, you would think it would have a negative effect on wine consumption, but it doesn’t seem so.  According to the Beverage Information Group’s recently released 2009 Wine Handbook, wine consumption in the U.S. rose 0.9 percent in 2008 to 294.7 million 9-liter cases.  Although the growth rate of the wine [...]

Your choice of wine gives clues into your personality.  Isn’t that fascinating.  This is new research done by scientists in Australia and Britain.  The research was based on whether you prefer sweet wines or dry wines.  What personality traits does the research say can be derived from your wine taste buds; impulsiveness, empathy, openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness [...]