Don't Knock the Hustle. Girl Scout sells 200,000 cookies.

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/girl-scout-sells-17328-boxes-of-cookies/20080515113709990001

OK, so 17,238 boxes may not add up to exactly 200K cookies, but it is still significant.

Posted by Gabe Holmes on May 15th, 2008 at 12:39pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Feel Free to Use the Following Slang on winetotheface.com

Only the NY Post would keep me this hip.

* textual relations: text-message dirty talk

* OMFG: oh my bleeping God

* a - - hat: a stupid person

* gnar gnar: even better than gnarly

* cowboy up: be a man

* wizard: cool

* toolbox: a bigger tool than a regular tool

* trunk full of crunk: a car trunk with alcohol

* dormcest: sex betwee…

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Posted by Gabe Holmes on May 14th, 2008 at 2:55pm — 5 Comments (Add)

Down with Oregon Wine? Come to the Tasting Event at 1 Fort Mason Center Tomorrow.

The tasting evnet is supposed to only be for industry insiders, but I am sure non -industry people could get creative to get a pass.

Here is the link for more info:

http://explorer.oregonwine.org/events_industry.php?id=27&action=info

There will be literally 50 killer producers. The wines will mostly be mom and pop shops.

Posted by Gabe Holmes on May 12th, 2008 at 11:39am — No Comments (Add)

Here Frenchy Frenchy

This was a good grab at K&L San Francisco after seeing the Giants tear apart Philly this past Saturday. I don't usually spend money on older wine - this one is a '96 - let alone the inflated French stuff, but the bottle was in the 20 to 30 dollar range and…

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Posted by William White on May 11th, 2008 at 8:17pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Like Justin Wines? Try Carmody McKnight and Denner.

Justin Wines are big and crowd pleasing, but there grapes are mostly outsourced from other Paso Robles vineyards.

Carmody McKnight was one of the first Paso wineries and sold part of the vineyard to Justin about twenty years ago. The…

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Posted by Gabe Holmes on May 11th, 2008 at 2:13pm — No Comments (Add)