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Here’s something to help kill 5 minutes at work today! The Silly Tasting Notes Generator has been around on the Internet for a quite a while, and is perfect if you’ve ever fancied yourself as an aspiring wine connoisseur. Well maybe that’s a stretch for the use of this particular gadget, but it will certainly make for entertaining conversation at the dinner table! You can choose between Normal or Extra-Silly, and in a mere matter…
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Nope, bottle shock isn’t when you jump out wearing a scary mask to surprise your favorite wine! Sorry to disappoint, although that would have been a fun topic! “Bottle shock” is actually very hard to describe scientifically, but it’s certainly very real. When a wine is reported to be suffering from bottle shock, it is said to be closed or muted on the palate. All the individual parts of the wine become disjointed, leaving you…
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If you are a regular reader of this site, you probably already know that I don’t take myself too seriously. There is a fine-line though. I like to have fun with wine, but there is occasionally a little more serious side to it. The following is my list of Pretentious Things to Say at a Wine Tasting. This list isn’t hypothetical, these are ACTUAL comments I have heard at wine tastings (apart from the one…
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Industry attacks psychologist for flawed taste test The wine industry has attacked Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at Hertfordshire University, for claiming that most people can’t distinguish between cheap and fine wine, but “fool themselves into thinking expensive wines taste better.” So there has been a little controversy over the methodology this guy used to determine that 578 people couldn’t tell the difference between wine priced at £3.49 compared to wine at £29.99. People are going…
Read MoreWhy aren’t there wine commercials like this anymore? Love it!
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A nice and easy competition for you, although you may have to be a little creative, and potentially get your Facebook friends involved! I have posted the below photo on the Facebook Pages for Blog Your Wine and Jacksonville Wine Guide, the funny caption with the most Facebook likes by 10pm tonight wins a Soiree Wine Decanter! Trust me this is a prize worth winning! I use a Soiree myself and swear by it,…
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A little-known website called “Facebook” (apparently it’s some sort of “social networking” service), recently announced a brand new application, which it hopes will revolutionize the way you think about updating your social status! It used to be that drunk dialing was the thorn-in-the-side of the intoxicated cell phone user, then it became drunk texting; and now with the recent surge in social media, drunken status updates have become the next big problem. Introducing the “Breathalyze…
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I’d never even heard of Frisbee Golf until a couple of years ago. As it turns out it’s a perfect Sunday activity! The basic premise is kind of the same as regular golf, except you are using Frisbees, and the holes are metal cage-type nets. 18 holes, lowest score wins. Oh, and it helps if you bring some wine!
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