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More on Illinois lawmakers vs. Illinios wine drinkers can be found here.
There is a new wine bar and retail store opening up in Rock Hill called Bella Vita. Details are scarce, however this is the first of three stores that will be opening in St. Louis. Around 60 bottles will be open for [...]

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Come June first, Illinois consumers will no longer be able purchase wine direct from wineries or out of state wine stores. While residents have has this privilege for fifteen years now, in about a week it will cease to exist. This also means that hundreds of wines will become unavailable because they are [...]

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I don’t want to get started on a rant of stltoday or The Post Dispatch. I realize that St. Louis is a smaller city and with no competition by another paper, the bar is set by this lone publication. So I was excited to see the launch of a new website that would [...]

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I’m assuming they use a smart card that is loaded with money to pay for the taste. Maybe argon to keep the wine fresh? I didn’t have time to watch the whole video. I remember that a San Francisco bar was using a machine like this a few years back. I [...]

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The St. Louis Wine Festival will be held this year on September 27 & 28 at Forest Park. Straight from the source:
“The festival provides an opportunity to sample from more than 200 wines from around the world. Learn about new and exciting varieties from the experts in a relaxed festival setting.”
While the site has [...]

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Sorry for the delay in posts. Working on some things and there is always that one task that slips through the cracks.
Robert Mondavi died this morning at the age of 94. One of the first to embrace Napa Valley and build one of the first wine empires on that soil, he was a [...]

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About a month ago, I was reading Gut Check and it was posted that Chris Hoel was leaving our fair city for Yountville, CA to work in Thomas Keller’s famous restaurant, The French Laundry. In case you don’t know who Mr. Hoel is, there was an article about a year ago in the Riverfront [...]

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First of all, I just got done reading the review of SLeek from the PD. One thing most certainly jumped out at me. What the hell is Yellow Tail doing on a wine list there? Wow.
Second up, Robust has launched a new aspect of their site called winesips. It [...]

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Stltoday.com has launched a renovation of their website. Maybe this has something to do with the “spin-off” of the Post Dispatch by former PD employees, stlbeacon.org. maybe not. Who knows. One one hand, I do not like the new site. I feel like it is very difficult to navigate through [...]

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