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Short But Good: New Drinking Game

This is a MUST for anyone who reads any story about the 2011 crush: Everytime you hear the phrase: In Calif, wine grapes good but in short supply California Wine Grape Shortage: Fruit Good But In Short Supply Etcetera, ad nauseum, You MUST drink a glass of Pinot Noir. Every time. Slainte’ Credit for this […]

October 13, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Ah Shaddup Awreddy With Trump Winery’s Reality Show Bubkes!

In addition to the news crawler I programmed to find articles for News Fetch, I log onto 163 web sites (as of latest count) each morning. Occasionally something keeps coming back like bad indigestion and today it’s the fascination with The Donald and his Virginia horse country “winery.” A couple of examples: Don of a […]

October 11, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Comcast Weekend Work Fixes News Fetch Internet

When Comcast fixed my Internet they left me with a connection fast enough to spin my eyeballs around. I’m extremely happy with the fix. Not so much with the system. While the customer service reps I spoke with on Wednesday morning were courteous, they did nothing.By Friday morning my connection had crawled to 0.072 Mbits/sec […]

October 10, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Washington State Wine Commission executive director to leave

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEATTLE (October 6, 2011) – After nearly 30 years in public service, Washington State Wine Commission executive director Robin Pollard today announced that she will leave her current post at the end of this year to pursue new ventures in the private sector. “This has been the pinnacle of my professional experience,” […]

October 6, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Comcast Offers Dial-Up Modem Speeds At Broadband Prices, Bogs Down News Fetch…Again

This is what happens when broadband is a monopoly with no effective competition. A week or 10 days ago, I was getting what I paid for — download speeds of 6 to 10 Megabits-per-second (Mbps). And now (Oct 6) — 0.45 Mbps. No, the decimal is _not_ in the wrong place. (I wish!) UPDATE: As […]

October 6, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Beer Ascending

I’ve just finished pouring the fourth bottle of red wine tonight down one of my kitchen sinks. This is a dreary but increasingly frequent experience. There is a LOT of crappy red plonk for $10 and under. And those four bottles that weren’t worth the calories are $40+ down the drain. There used to be […]

October 3, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Geyser Peak, Ascentia – Tomato, Tomahto

Following yesterday’s article (Geyser Peak Winery Facing Bankruptcy? Just Rumors Says CEO), I’ve gotten a number of emails and phone calls about Geyser Peak Winery and Ascentia Wine Estates. One email informed me that it’s Ascentia — all of it — that’s for sale, not just Geyser Peak. But given that Geyser Peak is part […]

September 29, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

Weary, Trite, Worn-Out, Lame Wine Headlines

Don’t. Just don’t. They ain’t cute. They ain’t clever. They ain’t creative. And they’re NOT going to help you. (Now where did I put the Kaopectate?) Wine no more for me, my darling Chinese and French wine experts trying to put a cork in counterfeit wine Wineries uncork predictive analytics … Drink in the best […]

September 27, 2011 | Filed under News Reporting & Journalism,Worth A Look | Read More

While The Wine Industry Dozed Off … The NeoDrys Come Knocking

Alcohol does give you cancer, say scientists Alcohol Linked to Breast and Liver Cancer Those links are from the U.S. government-funded National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). And from down under: Experts see red over wine & health ‘myth’ And please note that wine is no longer to be found anywhere in the […]

September 19, 2011 | Filed under Worth A Look | Read More

The Worst News News Release Of The Year (So Far)

A few days ago, writer friend and long-time colleague Paul Franson emailed me to say that I should devote some attention in News Fetch to news releases with LONG HEADLINES IN ALL CAPS. And then yesterday, along comes the news release below that is so bad in so many ways that it gets its own […]

September 14, 2011 | Filed under News Reporting & Journalism,Worth A Look | Read More