California Wine Club

April 14th, 2006

As wine grows in popularity people are searching for new fun ways to “share” wine with one another, one excellent option is to give someone a year in a popular wine club of the month program. These clubs often focus on regions or countries and can provide people will a lasting gift (12 months anyway). Clubs also offer people various different wines they might not be able to get a hold of easily or might otherwise just never heard of, clubs also ensure your tasting quality wines.

One such club called no less the “California Wine Club” was founded in 1990 by Boring and his wife Pam who have both shared a love of wine for many years. The California club features wines from small family wineries located in California, each month members enjoy two bottles which are hand selected. Members also enjoy an informative monthly magazine “Uncorked” which features in-depth articles about the wines, background stories on some of the wineries that are featured as well as recipes that work well with wine.

The club has no joining fee’s, monthly costs start at just under $35 per month up to the premier level which is just under $200 monthly. The club does offer a discount program that rewards members for buying a 3, 6, 9 or 12 month membership in advance. Month to month memberships are also available for those who would like to “test” the program.

Learn more here by visiting the California Wine Club.

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Wine Glass Or Water Tower?

April 12th, 2006

Often times when someone mentions wine country images of northern California come to mind. None the less in the recent years vintners from Oregon as well as Washington state have begun to produce some very tasty wines. One such town is Prosser Washington. In an effort to change public thinking of where great wine is produced and to gain some recognition the town is considering building a water tower in the shape of a wine glass!

Already in need of a new water tower the town figures another $600,000 to create their “wine glass” water tower just plain makes sense. Turns out city leaders figure instead of creating an eyesore why not create something that will provide some point of interest for the town and wine lovers alike.

Additional information can be found out about Prosser here.

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Highest Rated Cheap Wine (Red)

April 12th, 2006

Soon after launching this blog I began to look at wine a bit differently as I focused more on the names and years of the wine. While I enjoy wine and drink it from time to time my wife really love wine and drinks a glass or two each night with dinner, almost always red. Amanda and I have purchased dozens and dozens of varieties of red wine and have found one brand that we consider the highest rated cheap wine (in our house anyway).

The brand name is Red Truck and it comes out of California, which was founded by Fred Cline in 1982. While the winery has had many “popular” bottles success came when they launched a blended table wine in 2003. Sales exploded since that time and in 2004 they sold more than 145,000 cases! As mentioned this has been my wife’s favourite wine for some time, she says she can taste just a bit of vanilla and often buys a case at a time to get an extra 10% off the purchase price at our local “bottle shop”.

About a year ago the winery featured a label contest that was won by California artist Cindy Lucas, you can view here painting as well as other finalists below:

Red Truck Wines
Red Truck Wine Label Contest

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Wine-Blog.Net Launch - Wine Articles, News & More

October 5th, 2005

Welcome to www.wine-blog.net, this site has been in my thoughts for years and I am excited to welcome readers to the first post! As a professional chef for over 20 years and one who loves great culinary delights it was only a matter of time until I got around and created this site.

I will tell you right now that I am not wine expert, I do have some good basic knowledge and will share that along the way. This site will be a learning experience for me and I hope you as well. The site gets kicked off with more than 25 excellent wine article dealing with wine accessories, types of wine, what makes a wine “fine”, wine cellar design ideas and more.

You can find our wine articles located here:

www.wine-blog.net/articles/

Cheers,

Wine Guy

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