This is just a just a quick collection of newsworthy facts and figures to send you into the weekend feeling full of fortuitous factoids.

Catavino’s La Rioja Newsletter
After two quasi full months of tasting only La Rioja wine, while conveniently forgetting that one week dedicated to Portuguese wine, we will be finished by the end of this weekend. What this means is that by next Wednesday we will be releasing the first ever Catavino buying guide in conjunction to a rather unique and ingenious newsletter. “Um, excuse me, aren’t those the same thing,” you may be asking. And the answer is, no! Realizing that absolutely no one wants to download 50+ pages of articles and tasting notes devoted to La Rioja. They would, however, appreciate the information in a less clunky manner. Keeping this in mind, we put our heads together and created a new, user-friendly newsletter that can be referenced over and over again, coupled with a great buying guide you can take with you to the store! Hence, if you haven’t signed up yet, please subscribe now so you don’t miss out on this fun new feature!!

We’ve been Roasted at Wine-ing 2.0
For those of you not in on the big secret, there is a new website dedicated to humbling the wine trade. Written in the same style as The Onion, Wine-ing 2.0 uses satirical humor to poke fun at everyone and anyone even remotely related to the wine world. With such articles as New California Wine- 2×4 Set to Launch in the US, Gary Vaynerchuck Takes Down Twitter with Happiness and Weak Dollar, New Six-Tier Distribution to Do In Dr. Debs, it is impossible to not be addicted to this site…well…that …