I’m trying the wines, y’all.
You know I’m a hard liquor kind of gal but I know that there is more out there than rum so I’m broadening my horizons.
Tonight, I tried the Little Penguin’s Riesling. I know. Another wine with an animal on the label and another yellow bottle. I like yellow and I like animals. Sue me. This also another Australian wine though I didn’t pick it because of its country of origin-pure coincidence.
Since I had already picked up a red I was looking for something that appeared to be the exact opposite of the Shiraz. The Riesling is …read more

As an avid wino AND Twitter-er, this makes total sense to me. Thanks to fellow wine lover and VC, Fred Wilson, we now have winetweets – “a self organizing twitter group bot”.
From Fred’s post about winetweets:
1) join twitter
2) go to winetweets and hit the follow button (if you want the updates on your phone select device updates)
3) whenever you have a great wine, just send a twitter message that looks like this
@winetweets chateau ducru beaucaillou 1978 has still got it. Not for much longer though
That was my winetweet from last night. That message will get posted to winetweets …read more