Spit Wine http://spitwine.com Love Wine | Spit Wine | The personal blog of Lloyd Benedict, Founder of AmericanWinery.com Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:15:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Zane Lamprey in Las Vegas http://spitwine.com/2009/04/16/zane-lanprey-in-las-vegas/ http://spitwine.com/2009/04/16/zane-lanprey-in-las-vegas/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:08:13 +0000 Lloyd http://spitwine.com/?p=57

Zane Lamprey is quickly taking the beverage space by storm. A great, fun approach to travel and drinking. Its not about fine dining, its about booze, straight up.

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Wow, we tried this wine in a tasting here at the office at American Winery and I must say I wasn’t expecting much.  HOWEVER, THIS WINE IS EASILY THE BEST WHITE WINE I HAVE HAD IN 2009.  Coming from the North Fork of Long Island, this wine knocked my socks off. All kinds of tropical and citrus fruits are going on in this wine.  I am not a huge viognier fan but the aromatics in this wine are killer.  I guess that is why viognier is sometimes put into syrahs.  Brooklyn Oenology hits it out of the park with this wine!

]]> http://spitwine.com/2009/04/07/2007-brooklyn-oenology-viognier/feed/ Off to Wine 2.0 SF and SSU http://spitwine.com/2009/04/01/off-to-wine-20-sf-and-ssu/ http://spitwine.com/2009/04/01/off-to-wine-20-sf-and-ssu/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:51:56 +0000 Lloyd http://spitwine.com/?p=54 I will be taking off to Wine 2.0 tomorrow morning.  Im pretty excited to mingle with the bloggers post Web 2.0 SF EXPO.  Im sure they will be exhausted!  However, it should be a great wine time.  I will be opening signups for the public beta of WinecliQ.

After that on Friday, April 3, I will be off to Sonoma State University to chat on a panel about Marketing to Millennials–it is quite the hot topic!

]]> http://spitwine.com/2009/04/01/off-to-wine-20-sf-and-ssu/feed/ Yes Yes I know how to winecliQ it up. http://spitwine.com/2009/03/31/yes-yes-i-know-how-to-winecliq-it-up/ http://spitwine.com/2009/03/31/yes-yes-i-know-how-to-winecliq-it-up/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:49:06 +0000 Lloyd http://spitwine.com/?p=53 AmericanWinery.com has some very exciting things on the way.  We are in a very confidential private Beta mode of testing for a new service we are going to provide to wine consumers.  This thing is so private that if word leaked about http://winecliq.com, http://social.winecliq.com or this magical widget we are building, the sheer magnitude of this knowledge would make someone’s head explode. Im not sure why two double arrows were placed into the post.  I will get back to you on that.

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]]> http://spitwine.com/2009/03/23/wine-answers-widget/feed/ Straight From The Source Gets a Face Lift http://spitwine.com/2009/02/22/straight-from-the-source-gets-a-face-lift/ http://spitwine.com/2009/02/22/straight-from-the-source-gets-a-face-lift/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:11:05 +0000 Lloyd http://spitwine.com/?p=50

Check out the new design of American Winery’s Straight From The Source Video Page

video.americanwinery.com

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AmericanWinery.com has teamed up with Capital Public Affairs to open New Jersey up to direct wine shipping

Check out UncorkNJ.com

]]> http://spitwine.com/2009/02/19/please-visit-uncorknjcom/feed/ Live Blogging From ZAP-Zin Advocates and Producers http://spitwine.com/2009/01/31/live-blogging-from-zap-zin-advocates-and-producers/ http://spitwine.com/2009/01/31/live-blogging-from-zap-zin-advocates-and-producers/#comments Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:57:26 +0000 Lloyd http://spitwine.com/?p=48 Fort Mason San Francisco, Saturday January 31, 2009

I arrived around noon to the 2009 ZAP festival and found a great spot to push out a post. Wine 2.0 sponsors a section of the festival called “The Bloggers Lounge.” Today, ZAP takes over the two Fort Mason Piers, and between Festival and Herbst Pier there are over 300 wineries and thousands of Zin fanatics, navigating the massive show.

It’s just a little past noon and stained teeth are the norm. Not to many utilizing the all too familiar red keg cups as mobile spittoons, but moods are cordial and the hall is filled with bustle, commotion and loud conversations–the basic components of a good ol’ fashion wine social.

In the middle of the Festival Pavillion there is a silent auction taking place and rare verticals and large bottle formats are ripe for the bidding.

more to come after a little residual wine enters my blood stream…..
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Lindi in the booksSo, if you’ve been living under a rock the last 18 months, you would not know who Gary Vaynerchuk is. He’s the guy with a crazy popular wine video show that you need to check out.  But for all who have heard of Gary, I have an offer for you…AmericanWinery.com is begining a promotion as of today. We bought a truck load of Gary’s new book, “101 Wines: Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World” maybe not a truck load but our accountant was puzzled.  Scheming to sell the books for record profits was quickly shot down in board meetings, and then Erica Sharp our Customer Service Evangelist said she’d quit unless we give the books away.  Erica’s value far outweighed the profits to be had and the “101 Wines in 101 Days AmericanWinery.com Promo” was born. 

Thats right, getting your hands on one is as easy as creating a free account at AmericanWinery.com, no purchase neccesary to keep the ABC folks at bay, but every day for 101 days we are giving these books out in droves, or maybe a steady book a day, we dont know yet but we got a bunch of them to get out there, see for your self!  Check out how you can get a free copy of the book head over here

To check out my official review as well as two other awesome reviews of Gary’s book go here

Cheers,
Lloyd Benedict



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