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Beer and Women - The BitterSweet Partnership


The BitterSweet Partnership, which has been set up by Coors Brewers aims to address and remove the gender imbalance that exists around beer consumption and targeting. 
The BitterSweet Partnership conducted research of over 2,000 women to get their thoughts and found that there are very real barriers and myths that exist around women and beer. They […]

Wine on Video


VideoJug - described as Life Explained On Film have recently been working with a number of experts to produce a series of videos about wine and drink. Over the last twelve months they have developed a library of content to over 43,000 professionally produced videos.
 
“If you haven’t heard of VideoJug before, we are the world’s most popular, […]

A Roussanne Blend - Château Val Joanis


For a merchant marketed as a French specialist, the range in my local Nicolas was very disappointing. It’s an ex-Oddbins branch converted earlier this year. Comparing the range stocked between the two (they both have the same parent company) couldn’t been more marked. Oddbins has hundreds of wines; now the shelves seem very sparse. Just a few […]

Jim Beam Competition


Jim Beam is giving away $25,000 and a trip to Las Vegas for the person who submits the best remake of the bourbon’s current TV ads.
The contest web page is here. Call it Jim Beam’s way of keeping cocktail drinkers’ spirits high in the midst of the recession.
It’s a simple way for you chaps (and chapesses) reading […]

19th Annual Taste Of Vail


More than 50 wineries will participate in the highly anticipated food and wine festival, Taste of Vail.  Over four days in April, wine connoisseurs and budding aficionados will taste new varietals and learn from the winemakers themselves.  Numerous educational seminars, entertaining dinners and the après ski wine tasting event will allow engaging interaction with the […]

New Wine Travel Guides to Rioja and Tuscany


Wine Travel Guides just has launched two comprehensive on-line travel guides to the major wine regions of Tuscany, Italy and a further two guides to the Rioja wine region in Spain. These are the first guides the website has published to wine regions outside of France, and brings the total number of guides available to […]