WineTastings

Wine Stores Launches Twitter Tastings

Filed under: Wine

Tonight marks the first in a series of "Twitter tastings" by wine store, Bin Ends. The tastings will feature famous wine personalities taking part in online tastings. that anyone can participate in. The tastings will take place on the third Thursday of each month at 7pm. For each tasting Bin Ends will sell a tasting pack. Tonight's pack of six bottles cost $100. The tasting will include comments from Ryan and Gabriella Opaz of the popular Spanish and Portuguese-centered wine site CataVino.

Bin Ends offers "fine wine bargains" for customers both in their Boston store and online. They use an automatic markdown system where every three weeks, anything still in stock gets marked down an additional 10%. Bin Ends offers free shipping nationwide on all orders of $200 or more.

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American Airlines adding GrapeRadio

by Laura Malesich (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Wine

Want an education on wine while flying to your next business trip? If you are aboard American Airlines then tune into GrapeRadio -- a podcast for oenophiles. Featuring prominent members of the wine business as well as tasting and buying tips, etiquette and varietal reminders, it will be the first wine-specific programming available on an airline. Apparently, GrapeRadio has been broadcasting online for a few years and already has a healthy following of 20,000 listeners nationwide. So here's to learning something they don't teach you in business school that may help further your career just by flying and listening along.

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Taste-In Wine Tastings

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Services, Wine

Decanter reports on a new London-based company that offers private in-home wine tastings. What makes Taste-In unique is that they have rounded up some of the U.K.'s best known wine professionals to serve as hosts. Hosts include Tim Atkin, the wine writer for the Observer; Michael Broadbent, who used to handle wine for Christie's and Joanna Simon who writes for the Sunday Times. A two-hour tasting starts with a glass of champagne followed by eight wines. The Classic tasting costs £1200 for 12 people. They can also provide bespoke tastings to deliver whatever your heart desires.

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