If you’re a true wine geek, then you know about the Jura. When I lived in New York, you couldn’t go to an “Offline” (translated into human: a wine geek gathering) without seeing a boatload of bottles from the Jura; some Arbois, some Vin Jaune, etc.

Wink Lorch, the scribe of Jura Wine scribes, is writing THE BOOK about the region and has started a Kickstarter campaign. To be honest, it’s already met its funding goal. So why support it then?

Simple.

Fame.

All Kickstarter backers will be acknowledged in the book. Yes, you too can have a piece of eternal wine geek history!

What are you waiting for?!

The dark arts of advertising. . .

I can now safely say that we’re a proper wine map company. In retrospect, this should have been our first map, but we were under the erroneous assumption that France was already well covered by other map makers. There are many excellent regional wine maps of France, but the overall maps all seem to fall [...]

My apologies to everyone who has been camping out in our virtual line. If you would like to pre-order, you can do so now for a 25% discount. The map will ship on May 3rd, 2011. Thank you for your patience.

It’s great to hear that Wine Blogging Wednesday is back. I wasn’t a great participant but missed it (kind of like the water when the well runs dry). In the spirit of true unoriginality, I reached in the fridge door for a Tio Pepe while watching the Arsenal – Barcelona match (Arsenal 2-1 woo hoo!). [...]

Leonardo Locascio wants to simplify Italian wine laws. Although he’s done a great deal to get Americans to look beyond the wicker basket Chianti bottles of the 1970′s, he’s now had enough. At the Vino 2011 Conference in New York City last month he said “most Italian wine laws are totally irrelevant to the American [...]

Very sorry about the delay – the release date is now March 31th. Thanks for your patience!

There was an article today at Decanter about an Argentinian wine tasting event that featured Malbec, steak and tango. Malbec, steak and nap sounds more like it for me, but it got me thinking: what other wine, food & dance pairings are there? Here’s my list so far: Wiener Schnitzel – Grüner Veltliner – Waltz [...]

To see a sample of our Wine Map of Italy, please download our Wine Map of Sicily. It’s a fairly large pdf file (551KB) so please be patient. It’s also the freshest slice of Sicilian oenological cartography available anywhere!

It’s a little awkward, but we’re being quiet about the release of our much anticipated Wine Map of Italy for the first week. The company that does our order processing – The Wine Appreciation Guild – has an unforeseen backlog of orders, and we don’t want to compound the problem. Our official email announcement and [...]

note: the release date has been pushed back from the 15th to the 19th due to plant power outages in Upstate NY – sorry! Testing the limits of software, intestinal fortitude, bureaucracy and sanity (in no particular order), the Wine Map of Italy is now being printed and will be available on July 15th 19th. [...]