Wine-Searcher.com has a taxonomy for how they search and display results for wines.  For the free listings, check out the following URL which explains how to add a wine result list to your site. For example, to find Chataeu Mouton Rothschild, 2000 in the US and list the results in US Dollars,  you’d add the following link:

http://www.wine-searcher.com/find/Mouton+Rothschild/2000/USA/USD

It is my hope to add these results to the wine recaps so that others may find/purchase/consume wines we’ve had at our dinners.

I’ve got a sweet spot for Dominus.  On Friday, November 17th, Spago in Palo Alto will host a vertical tasting of Dominus from 1983 – 2003.  Of course I’d love to attend, there’s only 3,000 miles of USA between me and the event, along with springing for a highly irrational trip and a $650 entry fee. Still…one can dream.  If you are in Palo Alto, I could not recommend a finer producer to enjoy and cherish on that noble evening. Here’s a link to the event.

With the WinePod, slightly bigger than an iPod :-), and capable of producing cases of your own wine.

The Oxford Companion to Wine – here’s a write-up from Slate. 800 pages of goodness!

I did a bit of Internet digging and found the full articles referred to in the previous post:

American Association of Wine Economists – Journal site
What Determines Wine Prices: Objective Vs. Sensory Characteristics – PDF of study
Assessing the Effect of Information on the Reservation Price for Champagne: What are Consumers Actually Paying for? – PDF of study

If anything, the objective/sensory study proves something we’ve known about marketing all along: the sizzle sells the steak, no matter how good the steak might be instrinsically.