Juice blog , and current Wine Life Today BETA tester, Erin contacted me about exchaning links ... of increase of the wine blogosphere. First,  I do believe that Erin and I share the same stock photo of a wine glass in the background of our blog headers…this shows she has a great eye for nice wine photo and how to use it in an artistic way  (look at the Vivi’s header). Second, the content...

It seems that the Wine Magnet idea is getting new life and a new PR campaign from another company ... . Vinography had an article speculating about how warming a glass of wine in the microwave isn ... works.  A microwave is 1000W of electromagnetic power coursing through your wine for 20 seconds or so.  A magnet on the neck of a bottle is milliseconds of magnetic fields on your wine. Anyway...

Submitted to Wine Life Today is a link to Wine Spectator’s list of 90+ rated wines under $15 ... ! Here are a couple links to retailer (via Wine Searcher or Wine Fetch) EVANS & TATE CHARDONNAY MARGARET RIVER CHARDONNAY 2004 Ferrari-Carano Fumé Blanc Sonoma County 2002 Enjoy the Wine Life! (P.S. – Vivi’s Wine Journal is in no way associated with these wine shops and makes no garuantees...

... entries, some with multiple wines, in this month’s edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday.  The theme of BBQ wines drew alot of questions from the wine blogosphere – what is BBQ?  BBQ or Grilled meats?  Its ... name is Joel Vincent, why is this Vivi’s Wine Journal?  With this audience allow me to take a second ... all called her Vivi.  Hence we have “Vivi’s Wine Journal”  .  Second, the chick in the WBW#23...

news so I experimented with a wine version called Wine Life Today .  For the limited marketing (i.e. ... interesting wine news around.  As soon as I can get out of this busy period of my life we’ll see if we can’t kick that up even more. But there were a couple other “web 2.0” sites created with a wine theme ... similar, and all lacking something.  One day while I was developing Wine Life Today , I thought about...

While the wine blogosphere isn’t exactly a market maker it does represent, more so with every new entrant, a nice cross section of wine drinkers that can relate to each other and forms a loose social network around a common interest – wine.  Wine bloggers may not be fast friends but if a couple ... . Winecast.net’s Tim posted about how a fellow wine blogger, Cam of Appellation Australia , posted...

... is a man who has served his fair share of wine in his lifetime. Henri Jayer, world famous maker ... rejected almost half his crop to salvage his best wine, Rolin recalled. The son of a winegrower ... . Jayer. Red wine helps fight Alzhiemers. Hey, did you know that Pinot is red?! At the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, laboratory mice given Cabernet Sauvignon-based wine over a seven...

I’m working on the WBW round-up and I just wanted to let everyone know that the trackbacks came through.  I’ve been holding them up from publishing because trackback SPAM on this service (TypePad) has been smearing Vivi’s as of late  so they all come to me for approval before they ...

Devil’s Gulch Vineyard-- An Exceptional Wine from a Spectacular Site: 2004 Devil's Gulch Vineyard Pinot Noir is Released... All you Devil's Gulch fans, get ready for another delicious wine from 2004. Bright, sweet and mouth-filling, our 2004 Devil's Gulch Vineyard Pinot Noir has rich raspberry, candied cherry, cinnamon and forest floor notes. As it evolves in the glass over time, the wine...

... lovers whom I communicate with regularly and to countless wine blogs with great information ... Vivi's Wine Journal turns two years old today!  Its really been a tremendous amount of fun for me and my wife, Kelly.  We've met a very large assortment of people with a shared passion for wine over the last two years as a direct result of our blog.  Wine producers, retailers, distributors, artists...