At lagar de Bezana, we create only limited editions of our wines from the Alto Cachapoal Valley located on the foothills of the Andes.
We believe that making great wines is an art, for this we commissioned the famous Chilean artist, Carlos Maturana (Bororo) to create the drawings of our labels.
Toast-its are greeting cards that wrap around wine bottles and include an area for a personalized greeting.
Many a gift is made that much more compelling by the addition of a bottle of wine. So when the opportunity arises to give a gift that is sprinkled with phrases like “private” and “VIP” and “Napa,” and that gift comes with not one, but three, bottles of distinguished ambrosia — well, it begins to look like a little bit of attention might be in order.
Wine.com’s By Appointment Only will stuff your mailbox with a package of cabernets from Quintessa, Chateau Montelena, and Caymus. Yet those are merely to get you in the mood. The feature delight comes the next time you visit Napa: private appointments at each vineyard, during which you’ll tour the facilities, sample as-yet-unbottled selections straight from the barrels — so bring a straw — and if Madame Nature plays fair, a tour of the vineyard
These are no rush jobs, either: each group is just four people, and each visitation lasts up to 3 hours. Which means that when you’ve finished your preliminary samplings and you want to know what makes Caymus so subtly capricious, Chateau Montelena so delicately moving, and Quintessa so.. just plain divine, By Appointment Only is your peek behind their veils. Oh, and priced at $500, it also has a superb finish: it’s good until the summer of 2011.
By Jonathon Ramsey | Source :: www.luxist.com
We recently wrote about Crushpad’s new TinyBottles. We may be looking at a new trend here because a new company – Tasting Room – has also recently unveiled their sample-sized wine bottle tasting kits. While Crushpad’s bottles are straight tubes the Tasting Room ones are mini wine bottles. The first winemaker to use the new systems is Seghesio Vineyards which is shipping packaged tasting kits with 50ml glass bottles.
The first packages were delivered to a select group of their customers and featured the 2007 Cortina Zinfandel, 2007 San Lorenzo Zinfandel, 2007 Old Vine Zinfandel, 2006 Omaggio, 2005 San Lorenzo Petite Syrah and the 2004 Aglianico. These tasting kits are also being shipped through the wholesale channel for wine presentations to retail and restaurant accounts. In a press release, Peter Seghesio, CEO and winegrower, Seghesio Vineyards, said that he believes the new small bottles will be “revolutionary for the wine industry.”
In Wines and Vines, TastingRoom’s founder, Tim Bucher, says his format better preserves the wine and is more popular with consumers. Hiis company spent a year developing the new, patent-pending T.A.S.T.E. Technology (Total Anaerobic Sample Transfer Environment) which preserves wine integrity. In this process wine is transferred from larger bottles into smaller bottles in a sealed, zero-oxygen chamber. Although Seghesio is the first winemaker involved it is expected that a variety of other wineries will jump on board.
By Deidre Woollard | Source :: www.luxist.com
Good Grape’s highly subjective, non-comprehensive look at the best of the online wine world in 2009…
Good Grape’s highly subjective, non-comprehensive look at the best of the online wine world in 2009…
Internationally recognized design firm Duffy & Partners has just launched a new gallery on their Web site in honor of their 25 years of design.
Every year, Duffy & Partners designs a wine bottle as a way to spread some holiday cheer. Each design is different, but they all have a single purpose: celebrating the joy of the holidays.
Source : Packaging of the World
