GNGNB Ep40: Wine Blogging Wednesday #31 – Alternative Wine Packaging

March 14th, 2007

Wine Blogging Wednesday #31 – Alternative Wine Packaging
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Hey there guys and girls, here we go again! Wine Blogging Wednesday! This month’s contest is alternative wine packaging. For most people that means boxed wine. In fact, the Boxed-Wine-Guy is hosting this months’ event (Thanks Roger!) but Pam & I are not your average wine drinkers. Nope, not us. We have to be different. We went out and found some wine in a can. With a straw. The horror! Although it is wine, technically speaking it is sparkling wine in a can, and comes to us from Francis Ford Coppola and the wine is his daughter’s namesake, Sofia. The Sofia Mini comes in a package of four cans, neatly packaged in a hexagonal box, and retails for about $12.99. Following the hip trendy set, you can also find the cans for purchase at your local disco. We wonder out loud if Karen and Karla from the Rumor Girls are listening as this seems like a product right up their alley. Listen now as we give you are impressions of this marketers dream product. Have you tried Sofia? Let us know! Give us your thoughts on the wine-in-a-can concept.

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Wine Blogging Wednesday #31 Announced

March 10th, 2007

Wine Blogging WednesdayThis just in, Wine Blogging Wedenesday #31 has been announced!  We’d like you to help us out and play along this month.  The theme for WBW#31 is ‘Box Wines & Non-Traditional Packaging’ (thanks to Roger, The-Boxed-Wine-Guy for hosting!).  What does this mean?  Basically any wine that is packaged in anything other than a standard bottle.  (We won’t be allowing Stelvin or other screw tops, that’s too easy!)  Simply visit your local wine shop, and seek out some wines that come in alternative packaging.  Taste the wine and either drop us an email, or better yet, leave us a short voice mail at 408-627-7796 as to what wine you sampled, the price, the type of packaging and your impression.  For participating, we will randomly select someone and send them a prize of some sort.  We have two different wines that we will try out, but one pretty unique package that I think we will wind up using.  Want to know what it is?  Well for that, you’ll have to come back and listen to our podcast on Wednesday.  (Better yet, subscribe and you won’t have to remember to visit our website, our report will be delivered directly to you on Wednesday evening.

Until then, cheers and we’ll see you soon!

A Guy and a Girl

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The passing of a Legend – Ernest Gallo (1909-2007)

March 7th, 2007

Ernest Gallo, founder of what eventually became the worlds’ largest wine making operation (by volume) passed away on Tuesday. Ernest and brother Julio (along with Ernest’s Wife Amelia) founded the E. & J. Gallo Winery, in 1933 with $5,900.00 and a borrowed wine making recipe from the Modesto, CA public library. Today E. & J. Gallo Winery has more than 4,600 employees with wine and other products sold in more than 90 foreign countries.

Always an innovator, Ernest pioneered modern techniques of merchandising and brand management to the wine industry, including such techniques as: a dedicated sales force, point-of-sale displays, outdoor billboards, television advertising, and RFID inventory management.

The company also grew through acquisition of vineyards, continually expanded its wineries as well as distribution facilities, and eventually built its own glass plant. The Gallo brothers also established the Gallo Research Laboratory, which focused research on all facets of wine production.

Today the Gallo tradition continues with wine being produced under more than 40 different labels.

In memoriam – Ernest Gallo

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GNGNB EP39: ZAPPed again!

February 22nd, 2007


A Guy, a Girl, and a Bottle Wine Podcast EP39: ZAPPed again!

Play now! – [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/164/episodes/51042/wine-51042-02-22-2007.mp3]

Viva Zinfandel!

A few weeks ago we attended the ZAP Festival (www.zinfandel.org), a.k.a the Zinfadel Advocates & Producers Festival in San Francisco, this festival is completely out of control.  To give you an idea of how big this event is, there were approximately 9,000 attendees, 273 wineries, and 550 wines featured, if you were to hit every single one, and even if you didn’t actually consume the wine but only swirled the wine in your mouth they still would have to haul you out on a wheel barrow. Oh, yeah, did I mention the 1,500 pounds of cheese?

We really enjoy going the ZAP festival, but it can be a bit overwhelming which is why it is a good idea to look in the program pick the producers that your intrested in trying and just go for it (it also helps make the decision process easier if there is a sexy beautiful girl pouring the wine). If you are planning a trip out to wine country next year and Zinfadel is a favorite of yours I think you should definatly consider planning it around this 4-day extravaganza event in late January, you will not be disappointed!

Well, because there was no way Joe and I was able to taste all the wines and talk about it, we decided to change things up a bit on this show and we simply recorded random bits and pieces from the show floor. We hope that you like it, we will return to the regular format for the next show. Of the wines we tried, we picked some of our favorites, such as:

Brown Estate Vineyards – www.brownestate.com (a favorite from last year)
Barefoot Cellers – www.barefootwine.com (another favorite from last year and has become a regular at meal times at the guy and girl family dinners).  I love these guys because their
booth was fun, and they knew how to draw a crowd, believe it or not Elvis is apparently not dead.
Javalina Leap Vineyard Winery www.javelinaleapwinery.com here is where they had the beautiful girl pouring the wine but this wine was not just a pretty face it was down right amazing. If you can get your hands on a bottle, check it out for sure.
Frank Family Vineyards – www.frankfamilyvineyards.com  We don’t want to say too much about these guys because they are going to be featured in an upcoming episode, so stay
tuned!

Our Artist featured this week is Black Lab – Ecstasy

. You can find more music from along with other great artists on the Podsafe Music Network http://music.podshow.com.

Thanks to everyone who helped make this episode – special thanks to John from the CorkDork blog (http://corkdork.typepad.com) for spotting some of the great wines and sharing those with us.  Check out his blog for full details (he even liked the Adobe Road Zin that we raved about!)

Cheers!

A Guy and a Girl
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GNGNB EP38: Wine Blogging Wednesday #30 New World Syrah

February 8th, 2007


A Guy, a Girl, and a Bottle Wine Podcast EP38: Wine Blogging Wednesday #30


Play now! – [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/164/episodes/49204/wine-49204-02-08-2007.mp3]

We are getting back in the swing of things and after the ZAP festival in San Francisco, we caught with an old friend, Tim Elliot of Winecast who coincidentally is hosting this month’s Wine Blogging Wednesday. This month’s challenge is much easier than the last time Tim hosted a WBW, and the theme this time around is New World Syrahs. (New World refers to areas that are relatively new to the wine making world. This includes the Americas, as well as New Zeland and Australia.)

Our choice is the 2005 Little Penguin Shiraz.


Little Penguin

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Cheers!
-A Guy & a Girl

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