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Wine and Biodiversity | Monday, 15 December 2008
This week Brandon Marc talks about the Western Cape being home to the Cape Floral Kingdom, the richest plant kingdom in the world with 9600 plant species, totalling more than the entire northern hemisphere.

"It is marketing partnerships between wine producers and conservationists that are key to the further protection of our precious Cape biodiversity."

To find out a bit more about the Cape floral Kingdomgo to ...
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An Industry comes of Age | Monday, 15 December 2008
Marc Hinton, Enobytes.com, talks about his discussion on his wine blog Wine Bytes on OregonLive about landmark events that solidifies a movement, a thing, and sometimes even a varietal.

More specifically he talks about how Oregon Pinot noir now has a landmark event in its history.

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300 000 | Saturday, 13 December 2008
On Friday, 12 December 2008 mi-vine(m) website broke the 300 000 hits in 2008 barrier at an average 202.28 hits/visit. We had visitors from all over the world with South Africa, Germany, Romania, Austria the UK and Australia leading the other 40 countries.

Visitors are mostly interested in the Wine Catalogue and the mi-vine(m) Community Member profiles.
Welcome to the Wines of Chile | Thursday, 11 December 2008
The International Wine Company presents "Welcome to the Wines of Chile" | Wednesday 14 january 2009

Join IWC for the Santa Alicia Gourmet experience where Executive Chef, Leanne Roberts, will pair a 5 course tasting menu with wines from Santa Alicia at Granny Mouse.

Vina Santa Alicia was founded on fertile lands in 1954 by Maximo Valdes. After half a century and four generations, the Valdez family has turned these ...
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Week 49 | Wednesday, 10 December 2008
On, Wednesday 10 December 2008 the wine catalogue update for Week 49 of 2008 were made available for all active mi-vine(m) subscribers. Be sure to update your installation by following the synchronization steps.
... the Rest | Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Wine.co.za lists a few people and issues they believe never got the recognition they deserved.

Like "Most read article on WineNews", "Mike Carter on South African trends for 2009" and "Training initiative of the year".

To see what else they list and read about the topics visit Wine.co.za
Enobytes Vino Exchange with Randall Grahm | Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Enobytes.com hosts a monthly discussion on Vine Exchange, to promote the exchange of ideas, opinions, knowledge and inspiration between wine professionals, enthusiasts and consumers.

"This week on Vino Exchange, Randall Grahm is leading a discussion about Biodynamic and organic farming and winemaking."

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Systembolaget | Friday, 5 December 2008
Brandon Marc explains the meaning of this strange word...

"Systembolaget, the Swedish Alcohol Retail Monopoly, exists for one reason only: To minimize alcohol-related problems by selling alcohol in a responsible way, without profit motive."

But there has been talk by the Swedish government about abandoning the system.

To find out a bit more about this strange Swedish system go to
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Week 48 | Wednesday, 3 December 2008
On, Wednesday 3 December 2008 the wine catalogue update for Week 48 of 2008 were made available for all active mi-vine(m) subscribers. Be sure to update your installation by following the synchronization steps.
International Wine Co. | Wednesday, 3 December 2008
On Wednesday, 3 December 2008 mi-vine(m) met with Steven Lack of International Wine Co. to discuss the future of wine collecting communities both locally in South Africa and Internationally.

Both entities believe there is a requirement in the local wine collecting community;
  • to educate consumers on what wines are available in the market and to help them better understand what they own, this drive will as ...
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Affordable Travels and Guessing Games | Monday, 1 December 2008
Brandon Marc gives some advice to wine enthusiasts who want to explore the world’s winelands outside of South African borders. This is very informative and very helpfull!

He also posted a photograph alongside the aerial view of a quite familiar South African Wine farm, and challenges anyone to guess which one it is! To have a look at the photo and get some advice visit My Wine C ...
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Depardieu: Biodynamics ‘doesn‘t exist‘ | Monday, 1 December 2008
A news item posted by Decanter.com quotes French actor-winemaker-restaurateur Gerard Depardieu with his opinion on wine making and the use of Biodynamics.

"Mine is complete honest wine. It‘s not a question of marketing."

To see the full article visit Decanter.com
Picking a Wine Store | Thursday, 27 November 2008
Alexandra Smith talks about how difficult it can be for wine lovers to choose the perfect bottle of wine.

So she has came to the conclusion that help definitely is needed, and the best place to get help from, is of course the person working at the store you plan to buy that perfect bottle from. In her post, she gives a few tips on finding the right store.

To get some help go to
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Week 47 | Wednesday, 26 November 2008
On, Wednesday 26 November 2008 the wine catalogue update for Week 47 of 2008 were made available for all active mi-vine(m) subscribers. Be sure to update your installation by following the synchronization steps.
South African Synergy | Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Brandon Marc discuss an interesting topic about how advanced South Africa is when it comes to IT integration within the local wine industry.

"There’s almost an unspoken mutual understanding that the wine industry needs IT to be competitive in the global market… and indeed it does."

Even Christian Eedes, editor of WINE magazine agrees.

To see what Christian Eedes says about this go to
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Simonsig
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Nederburg
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South Africa
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South Africa
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South Africa
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