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Shop Dude! Wine, Accessories, and Tools for Wine Learning Available on 1WineDude.com

I've been getting some reader feedback that the various items we've got for sale via 1WineDude.com are arranged in a, let's just say, less than optimal fashion.

Another way of putting it, is that the current layout is too friggin' confusing! So I'm offering this post to (hopefully) help clear up the confusion.

Looking for Wine? Looking for Wine Gifts & Accessories? Looking to up your Wine IQ?

Dude's got you covered!
1WineDude.com has all manner of items for sale through our Affiliates.
Checkout the links below and get yourself all wined-up!...

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Domaine547.com is an on-line place without pretensions, where you can drink, learn, & communicate about wine. 1WineDude.com readers get a 5% discount on their wine orders! Just enter the coupon code "dude" during checkout.

WineQ.com offers hand-crafted wines sold by small, family-owned wineries in California. You can queue up your wine orders (a-la netflix) and shipping is free for orders over $35.

TheWineSpies.com - Every 24 hours The Wines Spies features a single exceptional wine for sale. The wines are chosen on a quantity-limited basis, and are offered at a great price.

MyWinesDirect's wines are carefully selected by experts, then approved by panels of wine drinkers just like you - to ensure that every wine's a winner. They try to make buying, serving and drinking wine fun, easy and enjoyable, while giving you the knowledge to experiment and the confidence to discover your own likes, dislikes and tastes.

WineLegacy.com is a premier online wine retailer featuring a superb selection of quality, hand-picked fine wines and wine gifts from around the world, shipped right to your doorstep.

The Wine Messenger offers wine clubs, and collections of wines based on geography and winemaking styles. They also have a handy wine facts section that let's you learn and shop by varietal or country. Pretty cool.

Morrell is a kickin' family-run shop out of NYC that sells wines and spirits from pretty much everywhere. They've been in business for 59+ years and perform their own tasting and evaluating before selling to you.

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DeLongWine.com offers two great products to help you learn more about wine: a Grape Varietal Table that shows wine grapes in a visually related way, and a nifty Wine Tasting Notebook that helps you to keep track of your wine adventures.

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Get sweet wine gear at Dude's CafePress shop.
We've got all manner of schwag available, like t-shirts, hoodies, caps, mugs, coasters, mouse pads, baby onesies - basically anything but wine. Dude's printed Wine Tasting Guide is also available at the shop.

1WineDude Recommendations - The Dude has Essential Wine Books, Interesting Wine Reads, Wine Accessories (like corkscrews and stemware), and even wine-sippin' Music selections, all available on his Amazon.com store.

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Didn't find what you were looking for? Try these wine-related offers on for size:

Hope this helps! Cheers!

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In The News: US Wine Consumption on the Rise - Again

There's a great little article by Janice Jones in today's Sierra Sun about the rising tide of wine consumption in the U.S.

According to the article, the U.S. has surpassed Italy and is now on the heels of France to claim the title of the world's largest consumers of wine by volume (at 2.77 gallons per wine drinker per year). Though I think Luxembourg still holds the title in terms of wine consumption per capita.

What is most interesting about the article is the picture it paints of just how vast our wine choices are here in the U.S. - 7,000 different brands (with the $20 and under category making up most of the market).

That's just... HUGE!

How's a wine consumer supposed to navigate that kind of territory?...

Janice offers some sound advice on this: keep track of what you're drinking, so you can build up your 'Wine IQ' and form the vocabulary to accurately describe what tastes you like - and don't like - in your wine. Preferably by using a notebook and writing down your wine experiences. Which is exactly what the Dude's Wine Tasting Guide eBook. Yeee-haw - vindication!! ;-)

In a way, the Sierra Sun article underscores why I wrote the eBook in the first place - to help people better navigate the crazy (but utterly wonderful) wine by building their own personal wine taste 'map'. Without that map, and considering the vast array of wine brands available, their multitude of styles, and the increasing 'pressure' to somehow get on board the rising wave of wine popularity in the U.S., you may find the journey into the world of wine so daunting that you never even take the first step.

And that would suck - because the journey is really an amazing one.

Cheers!

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The 1WineWine Dude Tasting Guide! How to Taste Like a Wine Geek - Now Available (Printed & eBook Versions)!

Discover how YOU can become a Wine Guru!

Want to know more about wine?
Want to get more enjoyment out of every glass of wine that you drink?
Want to feel more confident when you head out to buy your next bottle of wine?
Are you ready to Taste with the Big Boys?

The Dude is here to help!

I'm happy to announce that my Wine Tasting Guide, How to Taste Like a Wine Geek: The 1WineDude Wine Tasting Guide is now available!

Preview a sample of the guide at LuLu.com.

My Wine Tasting Guide details the same practical tasting approach that I used to increase my own knowledge about - and enjoyment of - wine (the greatest beverage in the world). Some of the highlights:

A step-by-step guide to tasting wine like the pros (only without the spitting or the snobbishness!).
The story of how I overcame my own personal fear of wine, and was able to go from total WineDunce to the 1WineDude (and how that journey helped to form my tasting approach).
A practical example of the tasting approach in action.
Printable Forms for capturing your own wine tasting experiences.
Links to lots of helpful resources, wine accessories, & more (for further wine learning).

The Guide is an expansion of the wine tasting advice that I touched on in one of my previous blog posts. I received such strong positive reactions to the post that I decided it would be fun to create a reference that went into more detail about how my tasting approach developed, in the hopes that it would help others to get more enjoyment out of wine.

The Guide is targeted at those that are either new to wine, or who enjoy wine now but really want to get more out of it and are not sure where to start. If you're one of those people - now you have a place to start!

The eBook is available for $7.95 USD. It's in PDF format for maximum portability. If you need a PDF reader, you can get one for free for both PCs and PDAs from Adobe, and other software providers (my personal favorite is the light-on-the-resources FoxIt Reader).

Reviews:

"This ebook, combined with a sample half case or case of wine, can start novice wine geeks on their way to becoming confident wine buyers." - Kathleen Lisson, CSW & Wine Century Club member
"Succinct information about how to taste wine, what to look for, and how to really determine which wines suit your palate best. Using his scale, I can confidently state 'I Love It!' when reviewing 1 Wine Dude's e-book." - Douglas Trapasso of Chicago Pinot

Purchase Options:
1) Buy the eBook version at Payloadz.com (PayPal & Google Checkout) - $7.95 USD. Go Get It!

2) Buy the eBook version at LuLu.com (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express) - $7.95 USD. Go Get It!

3) The printed version of my tasting guide can be purchased at Cafepress.com for $10.95 USD. Go Get It!

4) As of July 2008, the Tasting Guide has gone Kindle! If you're hip to Amazon's ultra-cool techno reader, you can grab the Kindle Edition of the guide directly from Amazon.com for $7.95 USD! Go Get It!

Cheers - and Happy Reading!

Affiliate Program
If you'd like to sell my eBook on your blog or website, I'm offering a whopping 47% of the sales to affiliates! You can check out the details here.

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