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Wine Festivals

What’s your take on wine festivals?  I think it’s a great opportunity for consumers to get out and meet a lot of people and get a chance to taste the wares of area winemakers all in one place.  Unfortunately, you can sometimes feel like just a number in the crowd which can taint the experience [...]

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Who Supports Ed Thralls for Murphy Goode?

It has been a long and arduous journey, but chasing your passion is never easy.  With 16 days still left in the application period as of this writing, I have learned quite a lot, “met” a lot of great and interesting people and have never felt more driven to do something I really love: Work [...]

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Barolo in the Highlands

On our last leg of a North Carolina mountain vacation this past week we landed in the small town of Highlands, NC.  Known for its cooler climates, great hiking trails, and mountainous vistas, its permanent population is just in the low 1000′s but visiting tourists in peak season can spike this to 15,000 or more.  [...]

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The Other 46

Taking this title from a new found friend on Twitter and host of the The Other 46 wine blog, I bring to you some notes from 4 wineries I visited today in the Yadkin Valley, North Carolina.  I hope he doesn’t mind and I have given him props including a link to his site above [...]

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2 Lijit 2 Quit

I know, this is a wine blog, but to satisfy the technology geek in me, I wanted to comment on a new tool I recently added to my site: Lijit as a recommendation from Andrea of Andy’s Goode Life.  I promise, I’ll get back to wine next time.  Lijit is basically a search tool that allows [...]

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