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VinGarde Valise

Wednesday Birthday Week giveaway: $50 Wine.com gift card

111914And the winner is: asb, who selected 840; the winning number was 870 (screenshot to the right). Thanks to everyone who participated, Tomorrow’s giveaway is The VinGarde Valise, the ultimate wine bottle suitcase, plus discounts for those who want to buy one.

Today, to celebrate the blog’s seventh anniversary, we’re giving away a $50 gift card from Wine.com, and thank you very much to the people at Wine.com for their continuing contribution to the cause — the third year in a row they’ve donated the card. This is the third of five daily giveaways; check out this post to see the prizes for the rest of the week.

Complete contest rules are here. Pick a number between 1 and 1,000 and leave it in the comment section of this post. You can’t pick a number someone else has picked, and you need to leave your guess in the comments section of this post — no email entries or entries on other posts. Unless the number is in the comments section of this post, the entry won’t count.

If you get the blog via email or RSS, you need to go to this post on the website to enter (click the link to get there). At about 5 p.m. central today, I’ll go to random.org and generate the winning number. The person whose entry is closest to that number gets the gift card.

Tuesday Birthday Week giveaway: Wine books

wine books111814And the winner is: Pat Valast, who selected 649; the winning number was 651 (screenshot to the right). Thanks to everyone who participated. Tomorrow’s prize is a $50 gift card from Wine.com, and thank you very much to the world’s largest Internet wine retailer for their continuing contribution to the cause.

Today, to celebrate the blog’s seventh anniversary, we’re giving away a wine book gift pack, including “Buy the Right Wine Every Time,” “Provence Food and Wine,” and Lisa Mattson’s “The Exes in my iPod.” This is the second of five daily giveaways; check out this post to see the prizes for the rest of the week.

Complete contest rules are here. Pick a number between 1 and 1,000 and leave it in the comment section of this post. You can’t pick a number someone else has picked, and you need to leave your guess in the comments section of this post — no email entries or entries on other posts. Unless the number is in the comments section of this post, the entry won’t count.

If you get the blog via email or RSS, you need to go to this post on the website to enter (click the link to get there). At about 5 p.m. central today, I’ll go to random.org and generate the winning number. The person whose entry is closest to that number gets the gift pack.

VinGarde Valise

Monday Birthday Week giveaway: 4 Riedel glasses

riedel glasses
111714randomnumberAnd the winner is: B. Doppelt, who selected 934; the winning number was 928 (screenshot to the left). Thanks to everyone who participated. Tomorrow’s prize is a wine book package: “Buy the Right Wine Every Time,” “Provence Food and Wine,” and Lisa Mattson’s “The Exes in my iPod.”

Today, to celebrate the blog’s seventh anniversary, we’re giving away a set of Riedel wine glasses ? two reds and two whites, courtesy of Banfi Vintners. This is the first of five daily giveaways; check out this post to see the prizes for the rest of the week.

Complete contest rules are here. Pick a number between 1 and 1,000 and leave it in the comment section of this post. You can’t pick a number someone else has picked, and you need to leave your guess in the comments section of this post — no email entries or entries on other posts. Unless the number is in the comments section of this post, the entry won’t count.

If you get the blog via email or RSS, you need to go to this post on the website to enter (click the link to get there). At about 5 p.m. central today, I’ll go to random.org and generate the winning number. The person whose entry is closest to that number gets the gift pack.

The Wine Curmudgeon’s most popular posts 2014

most popular postsThe most popular posts from the past 12 months are almost completely different from what they’ve always been. Stories that been top-ranked every year that they’ve been on the blog, like The six things you probably don’t know about wine and $10 pinot noirs, aren’t any more.

Chalk these changes up to the new website, which debuted last fall; Google’s ever-demanding search algorithms and how they penalize sites like this one (and more on that Thursday); and who knows what else. In some ways, I’m no closer to figuring out the Internet and how people get to the site than I was when I started seven years ago (though the fine fellows at Reap Marketing have done their best to help me, as has Cindy Causey at the Dallas Media Center).

What I do know is that the blog’s reason for being hasn’t changed. The most popular posts continue to reflect what I’m trying to do here — cheap wine reviews, wine education, and criticism and analysis of how the wine business works. The most popular posts from 2014, plus a few other notes, are after the jump: Continue reading →

Computer-generated wine reviews

Coming Monday: Birthday week No. 7 with five days of prizes

Birthday week 2014The Wine Curmudgeon’s annual thank you to everyone who reads the blog and visits the site, since I wouldn’t be doing this without you. Contest rules are here. Those of you who get the blog via email or RSS will need to go to winecurmudgeon.com to enter.

This year ?s prize schedule:

? Monday: Riedel wine glasses ? two reds and two whites, courtesy of Banfi Vintners.

? Tuesday: A wine book gift pack, including “Buy the Right Wine Every Time,” “Provence Food and Wine,” and Lisa Mattson’s “The Exes in my iPod.”

? Wednesday: A $50 gift card from Wine.com, and thank you very much to the people at Wine.com for their continuing contribution to the cause.

? Thursday: The VinGarde Valise, the ultimate wine bottle suitcase, plus discounts for those who want to buy one.

? Friday: Two autographed copies of the cheap wine book.

Besides the prize giveaways, I ?ll recap the past year on the blog ? the top posts and the least liked, as well as my always insightful analysis about what it all means. Because this year, it means a lot to the future of wine writing and how I do it.

Friday birthday week giveway: The cheap wine book

And the winner is: Jim Caudill, who selected 131; the winning number was 143 (screenshot to the right). Thanks to everyone who participated, and for visiting the blog for the past six years. This was the last of the five daily giveaways.

Today, to celebrate the blog’s sixth anniversary, we’re giving away an autographed copy of the cheap wine book. And have I mentioned lately that it makes a great holiday gift? This is the last of the five daily giveaways

Complete contest rules are here. Briefly, pick a number between 1 and 1,000 and leave it in the comment section of the prize post. One entry to a person, you can’t pick a number someone else has picked, and you need to leave your guess in the comments section of this post. Otherwise, your entry doesn’t count.

If you get the blog via email or RSS, you have to come to the website, winecurmudgeon.com and to this post, to enter. At about 5 p.m. central today, I’ll go to random.org around 5 p.m. central today and generate the winning number. The person whose entry is closest to that number gets the book.

Thursday Birthday Week 2013 giveaway: Wine accessories gift pack

11212013And the winner is: Apsalar, who selected 375; the winning number was 400 (screenshot to the right). Thanks to everyone who participated. Tomorrow’s prize is an autographed copy of the cheap wine book, which makes a great holiday gift. Two makes an even better gift. And three? Stupendous. Friday is the last of the five daily giveaways.

Today, to celebrate the blog’s sixth anniversary, we’re giving away a wine accessories gift pack, including a wine tote, corkscrew, and white wine ice bag, courtesy of Nomacorc. This is the fourth of five daily giveaways; check out this post to see the prizes for the rest of the week.

Complete contest rules are here. Briefly, pick a number between 1 and 1,000 and leave it in the comment section of the prize post. You can’t pick a number someone else has picked, and you need to leave your guess in the comments section of this post. Otherwise, your entry doesn’t count.

If you get the blog via email or RSS, you have to come to the website, winecurmudgeon.com and to this post, to enter. At about 5 p.m. central today, I’ll go to random.org and generate the winning number. The person whose entry is closest to that number gets the gift pack.