Bring your own wine to restaurants to save money!

"Looking for an easy way to save money while dining out? Try bringing your own bottle of wine. Spending about $15 at the store and paying $10 for a corkage fee is a lot cheaper than buying a $40 bottle at a restaurant. Bringing your own bottle of wine to a restaurant twice a month can save you an estimated $360 over the course of a year."

I wish that there was more about this story :(
There is also no embed tag for the video!
So here is the link (it's unfortunately really short)

http://www.cbs58.com/index.php?aid=7418

UK wine-sellers declare that wine has horoscopes, advise wine-drinkers to avoid certain moon-days

Posted by Cory Doctorow, April 18, 2009 6:01 AM | permalink

Credulous wine-sellers in the UK are encouraging their customers to avoid drinking wine on certain days of the month on the grounds that the lunar cycle will alter the taste of the wine. Horoscopes for wine -- now that's a whole new kind of dumb.

The idea that the taste of wine changes with the lunar calendar is gaining credibility among the UK's major retailers, who believe the day, and even hour, on which wine is drunk alters its taste. Tesco and its rival Marks & Spencer, which sell about a third of all wine drunk in Britain, now invite critics to taste their ranges only at times when the biodynamic calendar suggests they will show at their best.

Marks & Spencer has gone a step further and is advising customers to avoid disappointment from the best bottles by making sure not to open them on "root" days...

In other quarters, doubts remain. Waitrose's wine department has investigated the idea and cannot see a correlation. Many scientists have little time for biodynamic wine, pointing out that the movement's guru, Rudolf Steiner, claimed to have conceived the concept after consulting telepathically with spirits beyond the realm of the material world. Among his other works are claims that the human race is as old as the Earth and descended from creatures with jelly-like bodies, and a belief that men's passions seep into the Earth's interior, where they trigger earthquakes and volcanoes.

Tesco and supermarket rivals go for wine tasting by moonlight

The Grand Moff's Wine Cooler

Posted by Rob Beschizza, March 12, 2009 1:50 AM |

Kalorik has a new wine cooler out. It is their first to meet ANSI specifications for use aboard the Death Star. From the pitch:

It comes with 2 wireless temperature probes that you insert into uncorked bottles, sealing the spout of the bottle while sending accurate temperature readings of the liquid itself (not the bottle) to the LCDs on the outside of the chiller. Also, you can have the bottle out of the chamber (on the dinner table, let's say) and the probe transmits the temperature to the base unit wirelessly. The chiller will alert you when the wine has become to warm and it’s time to put it back in the chamber. The unit also has a “quick freeze” option to chill Champaign as quickly as in the freezer. It allows you to simultaneously chill a bottle of red, white, rosé or champagne.

Kalorik Wine Cooler [Kalorik]