New Years Eve Wine Dinner at The Grape
December 15, 2010New Years Eve Wine Dinner at the Grape
Posted in Events | Leave a comment //QR Codes in the Wine Industry – Helping the Buying Experience
December 14, 2010If you haven’t already seen them, QR (Quick Response) codes are one of the latest technologies that have started popping up on wine labels. Whilst not exactly new (they have been around since ‘94), I’m thinking that over the next year or two this type of technology is going to become extremely prevalent, especially in the wine industry.
QR codes, which look like a pixelated black and white square, come to us from Japan (of course) where they apparently are common-place. The codes essentially are used to store data, including website links, coordinates or text, and all you have to do is point and click your cell phone to access the info (once you have installed the appropriate app). There are a multitude of different apps out there, some are better than others but all doing basically the same thing. I personally use Quickmark on my Android phone.
If you have never seen a QR Code before, check out the picture below. The code is the pixelated square toward the bottom left.
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Take Away Gourmet Christmas Menu
December 13, 2010
FINALLY have my Christmas tree up!!!
December 13, 2010My Christmas tree took FOREVER to put up, but actually not that long to collect the bottles…
Video Review of Cliff Raven Malbec
December 12, 2010
Wine: Cliff Raven Malbec
Place: Patagonia, Argentina
Price: $12.99
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The Difference Between Old World and New World
December 12, 2010
Wine is already a complicated enough topic, and there is a good amount of lingo thrown around. One of the key terms that can confuse people is old world and new world. The difference between old world and new world wines, on the surface is fairly straightforward (with a lot of generalizations), but as you get a little deeper into the topic it can get more complex.
Old World Wines
Places like France, Austria, Germany, Italy and Spain. These countries have a long history and heritage of wine production and wines from these areas are classified as old world because of this heritage. Wines from the old world are stereotypically lower in alcohol
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