Airport wine, Churchill Downs, green marketing, wine diet – tasting sized pours

m1ntju1ep Downing at Churchill Downs
What are the odds? Good-bye mint julep, hello chardonnay? [BusinessWeek]

Vino Volare
Vino Volo, the wine bar behind security at Dulles airport (IAD), is now opening an outpost at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI). Southwest passengers can rejoice! Vino Volo also operates at Sacramento and Seattle airports. Next up: JFK. [via Upgrade: Travel Better]

Seeing green
Fetzer announces a $1 million marketing campaign trumpeting their high-volume organic wines. But are they doing it to be green or make green? Or both? [Courier-Journal]

Wine diet
Want to bulk up? Forget Weight Gainer 2000. Try wine. Such is the logic of a new diet for the size zero Victoria Beckham, fka Posh Spice. Wine “gives her the munchies.” According to Closer magazine, “It’s the reason she has a drink. If she has a wine or two then she’ll have an appetite like everyone gets when they’re on a night out and drinking.” Um, OK. Maybe her diminutive size has to do with the fact that she only eats one meal a day? [via NZ Herald]

Gold medal
Congratulations to Jonathan Gold, restaurant critic of LA Weekly, for winning the Pulitizer Prize for criticism!

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2 Responses to “Airport wine, Churchill Downs, green marketing, wine diet – tasting sized pours”


  1. There was another item on the wine diet on the Spectator online blog, which I saw referenced here: http://www.domaine547.com. Apparently pop singer Pink is using the wine diet for the opposite reason as Mrs. Becks???


  2. [...] about Fetzer with their 600,000 case Bonterra brand? I was intrigued to note on Monday here that they will be spending $1 million on marketing their wine, which states “made from [...]

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