SAN DIEGO (PRWEB) – A Kickstarter campaign has launched to fund Encork, an innovative, minimalist wine preserving device. The Encork is an easy to use, disposable stopper that actively removes oxygen to preserve wine, allowing consumers to taste more and waste less. Encork was designed to fill a marketplace need in a growing sector for an inexpensive and effective…
A few years ago, Jon Bonné’s book The New California Wine became one of my favorite books on wine. I think some people looked at that book as the author telling people that these are the only wines you should be drinking out of the vast selection available to us. Instead, I took Mr. Bonné’s…
Mollydooker – part 2 http://www.mollydookerwines.com/ My conversation with Sparky Marquis of Mollydooker: First of all, let’s get one thing clear – Marquis is pronounced “mar-KWIZ”. So go back and reread last week’s article with the correct pronunciation in your head. I really wanted to know what Sparky felt were the driving factors in Mollydooker’s success,…
Recently, my esteemed colleague Rusty Sly published an article expressing his preference for the use of corks over screwcap closures for wine bottles. In the interest of presenting another viewpoint, I would like to say that my own preference is firmly on the side of twist-offs. Although admittedly my own household is split on this…