Ginger Vodka!

Distillerie G. Miclo

I am a sucker for originality in products, and I immediately had to talk to Marie-Andrée Lutt-Miclo about this bottle, visible from afar.

The site will be up soon here: http://www.distillerie-miclo.com

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Vinexpo 2009: Spain, Emilio Miró Salvat (Reus)

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Economic Crisis? I Got Yer Crisis Right Here

After four days of interviewing mostly foreign wine producers, I happened upon a stand that was selling Absinthe produced in Provence. I don’t wear my badge because it has a tendancy to fall off and I’d have lost it the first day if I hadn’t just stuck it in my pocket. When I asked about the Absinthe, the guy looked annoyed, he was discussing the crisis with colleagues and they all agreed, if I didn’t have a badge, I could go bother someone else.

Go Away Son, Ya Bother Me

Walking away, I happened upon this scene:

Come Taste Our Wines!

Let me see, which is the better commercial approach? D’UH!

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Vinexpo 2009: Lebanon Cave Kouroum

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Vinexpo 2009: Uruguay Dante Irurtia

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UK and EU Local Phone-in numbers

France at 6 PM : (Paris) 01 76 60 70 03

Sweden at 6 PM : (Stockholm)   08 525 07 041

In the UK, call in at 5PM on one of these numbers:

Cardiff  02921070010
Glasgow
01412830010
Edinburgh  01315120010
London  02032981033

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Newbie to Geek in one lesson!

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@DaveAC and I talk about some of the latest health news from the New York Times et al about how wine drinking may not be good for you, as has been previously claimed. Evelyne (@winebrands) joined in a bit late.

My pal from the VoIP Users Conference Michael Graves (@mjgraves)came by to talk about his New Wine Consumer status. It’s interesting to see how these things progress from a newbie to a seasoned wine geek.

Paul Mabray dropped by and after me saying three or four times that we’d not get into the M-G social media campaign, we of course did with gusto.

@winebythebar was listening in on Skype and hopefully will join us soon to talk about that very app: Wine by the Bar. Michael Wangbickler from Academy of Wine Communications was also on hand with us on the text chat.

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Cahors Chef Comes to Manhattan

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Dave Eve Randy Andy Randy Hardy and Mike

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Fun call with no serious pretensions.  Some stuff about wine, some about Web 2.0, some about kids, some about Leo Laporte and the F word.

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Murphy-Goode Candidates LIVE

Murphy-Goode

Sorry for the quality of my own audio, but the candidates all shine through loud and clear!

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Are you a candidate for the AReallyGoodeJob? Maybe you’d like to join our discussion and talk about the experience so far? What about you hopes and dreams? We can’t guarantee that anyone from M-G will be listening, but you may be able to gather a few last minute voters!

@winetonite @toddhavens @TransAmericas @winebizradio @rickbakas @mwangbickler

To grab URLs mentionerd, try this Text Chat Transcript

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