• Beard wine nominees: The Beards are best known for food – think of it as the Academy Awards for chefs – but it also rewards wine. The list is here. The categories include outstanding restaurant wine service and outstanding wine and spirits professional. And, a personal note: John T. Edge, the impresario of the Southern Foodways Alliance, will be inducted into Who’s Who of Food & Beverage in America at the awards event. John T. knows his business, and has done yeoman work to preserve and protect what’s important about honest food in the U.S.
• Re-closing wine bottles: Want to know what works best after you’ve opened it, but haven’t finished the wine? How about none them? Or at least after two or three days, when most of the them don’t make of a difference.
• Wine and exchange rates: This article, by Matt Kramer in Portland’s Oregonian newspapers, is one of the best short explanations about how exchange rates and the strength of the U.S. dollar affect wine prices. And the review isn’t bad, either.
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