Wine at Uvinum's blog
Twitter's Fledgling Wine launches
In an exciting convergence of technology, CSR, and wine, yesterday Twitter launched it's first wine, called Fledgling Wine. The 2009 vintage includes a Pinot ...read more
When drinking your wine is not enough
If it is too hot this summer to comfortably enjoy your Cab, you can try it in sorbet form now thanks to Wine Cellars sorbet. Although I've seen other wine ...read more
Consumers stay home and drink wine
Good news for the wine industry: a recent survey shows wine has become consumers' first choice in the US, UK, and Australia when they stay at home, which itself remains ...read more
Wine and Tourism
After reading a review by Manuel Colmenero Larriba of Lluis Tolosa's new book España no es California, in which he discusses the issue of attracting tourists to Spanish wine regions, I thought of ...read more
BYOB comes to London
Having usually been allowed to bring a special bottle of wine if I so chose to a nice restaurant as long as I was willing to pay a corkage fee, it was not until recently that it occurred to me ...read more
Cheers to Spain!
Bottles of cava were popped all over Spain last night to celebrate the winners of the 2010 World Cup, echoing the fireworks, horns, and shouts that could be heard until late in the night. If you ...read more
Who Tastes the Wine?
Ordering wine in a restaurant apparently not only creates confusion for the diner (which region? varietal? price? does it go with fish?), but also the sommelier. There's already been some ...read more
French wine to become the Coke of the wine world?
France has been slipping for a while from it's lofty seat at the top of the wine world due to increased competition across the globe but also internal problems such as inconsistent quality ...read more
How to read a wine label
In a bottle of wine there is much information to decode. The wine label is one of the most important since, along with the back label, the bottle type, the capsule and the cap, it's like a car ...read more
Uvinum.co.uk, the international social wine recommendations website
We just launched Uvinum.co.uk on March the 1st. It is our first international expansion since the launch of Uvinum Spain (www.uvinum.es) last December 15th. As we have posted before, Uvinum's ...read more


