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15 Sep 2009Is it possible for Ol’ Blue Eyes to hock wine? Time will tell as The Sinatra Family Estates has announced its first wine offering, Come Fly With Me, a limited-production 2007 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. The winery partnered with the Frank Sinatra Estate and his three children (Tina, Nancy and Frank Jr.) to produce the [...]
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3 Aug 2009We’ve all heard of the classic “distract & grab” when it comes to fine jewels, but in a sign of the times that has now segued to wines. At Hopkinton Wine & Spirits in Boston, a woman continually asked a series of questions to a clerk while two counterparts raided the cooler of a 1945 [...]
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29 May 2009France’s esteemed Chateau Cheval Blanc is auctioning off rare vintages right from the cellar through Sotheby’s next month. On June 17 at Sotheby’s London, collectors can get their hands on over 1,000 bottles from nearly a century of vintages including the 1921, 1928, 1947 and 1949 being sold by the chateau. Each comes in an [...]
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26 May 2009If you’ve got vintage wine to sell your best customers just might be a half a world away. Xinhua reveals in Beijing an auction of fine French wine did very well this week. The auction sold around 1,000 bottles of Bordeaux from famous chateaux ranging from Lafite to Margaux and Mouton. The wines were shipped [...]
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1 May 2009It’s been since 2005 (the 2003 vintage) since Portugal’s Douro Valley declared a vintage port but Wine Spectator reports that the 2007 growing season’s cool summer and sunny fall produced a superior product. The Port industry has made its biggest Vintage Port declaration. The Instituto dos Vinhos do Douro e Porto is in the process [...]
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26 Apr 2009Famed French champagne house Veuve Clicquot is known for many innovative products designed to enhance the experience of enjoying their world-class wine. The latest addition is a nifty new version of their thermodynamic Ice Jacket. The high-tech isotherm sleeve is tailored to the shape of the Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label bottle and designed to keep [...]
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