EcoVino has discovered a unique niche by combining a love of wine with the the growing green trend. From the vine to your glass, they use an eco-friendly, organic process to maintain quality and minimize the impact on the planet. They have even tossed out the traditional bottle for a more compact easy-to-carry pouch. The […]
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Mashable: Naked Wines is an online retailer for wine. Visitors to the website can buy one or more bottles of wine or a monthly subscription. The $40 monthly subscription fee goes directly to new winemakers, and the customer receives a $40 credit for wine. Customers buying wine are essentially becoming wine angel investors. The store
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CNN Money: America’s love affair with the irreverent, tacky and politically incorrect is making millions for at least one business. Carson Home Accents, a 41-year-old, family-owned company based in Freeport, Pa., struck gold recently when it started manufacturing and selling RedNek Wine Glasses. The company, a wholesaler of gift and home decor items, started making
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Ian Hutcheon is a 40 year old British astronomer living in Chile that has has combined his two great loves, astronomy and wine making. He’s created what is believed to be the first wine aged by a meteorite formed during the birth of the solar system. His wine, called “Meteorito” was created with grapes from
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California wine is about to get more expensive. Silicon Valley Bank, which provides the wine industry with commercial banking services, predicts the fine wine business will see sales growth of 7 to 11 percent this year amid a looming grape shortage. “I think the consumer for the past five years has been used to getting
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Wall Street Journal (In Charge): Like many new small-business owners, Cathy Deano knew nothing about franchising when she and a partner launched a series of bring-your-own-wine painting classes in Mandeville, La., four years ago. Yet from the moment Cork’n Canvas opened its doors, the business started getting offers from enthusiastic clients who wanted to buy
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The glass harp is a musical instrument made of upright wine glasses. It is played by running moistened fingers around the rim of the glasses. Each glass is tuned to a different pitch by filling the glass with water until the desired pitch is achieved. If you’ve always wanted to play, here’s your chance: The
Wine wasn’t always stored in glass bottles. Wine was originally stored in terracotta containers called amphorae. During the Roman Empire, glass bottles were invented in Syria and wine quickly moved into these lighter and more translucent containers. Corks came later); “as late as the mid-17th century, French vintners did not use cork stoppers, using oil-soaked
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Daily Record: A business that will offer in-home wine tasting events won first place in a business plan competition during Central Washington University’s SOURCE (Symposium on University Research and Creative Expression) in May. The business plan competition was sponsored by the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I4IE) in the College of Business. Thirteen CWU students
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WorldCrunch: China’s unmatched counterfeiting skills seemed to reach a new peak with the recent discovery of an entirely fake Apple Store in Kunming. But other shady salesmen are now taking the faking in another high-end direction: the counterfeiting of vintage French wines. Industry experts says more and more “French wine,†whose actual origins are yet
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