2 Guys Uncorked has launched! After seven months (since June '07) of hard work and wine drinking, Jon and Ted have unleashed their idea onto the world.
2 Guys Uncorked is an innovative, easy to use website dedicated to reviewing wines that can be found at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods (and generally, most any other well stocked wine store). We give you the inside info on a bottle before you buy. So check us out right before you head to TJ's or WFs.
A brief overview of 2GU:
-We have more than 30 reviews of wines from around the world
-Prices of the wines reviewed range from $2 to $25, with a strong focus on the $4 to $12 range
-Each wine we review can be found nationwide at Trader Joe's or Whole Foods
-Every review is quick, fun, and easy to understand. No pretentious wine-talk or snobbery
-We take price into account when rating each wine, giving an overall rating anywhere from a best buy to a don't buy
-We abandon the ridiculous 100 point scale in favor of a more open-minded, honest rating system
-Every week we post 3-5 new reviews of wines, along with our best buys and don't buys for the week
To keep updated with all the new reviews and each week's featured wines, please add your email to subscribe to updates (upper right, don't worry we hate spam too) or add the feed to your favorite RSS reader.
If you want to add comments to our reviews or participate in the forums, please create an account and join in on the fun!
And do stay tuned, we have tons of new features coming soon (like iPhone support, shh!).
www.2GuysUncorked.com
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Monday, January 21, 2008
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Burgundy Wine“The wines from Bourgogne boast a longer history than any others.”
Here are some key dates in the long winegrowing history of Bourgogne, listed in chronological order.
312: Eumenes’ Discourses: oldest known documented reference.
1115: Clos de Vougeot Château built by monks from Cîteaux.
August 6, 1395: Duke Philip the Bold (1342-1404) publishes ordinance governing wine quality in Bourgogne.
1416: Edict of King Charles VI setting the boundaries of Bourgogne as a wine producing area (from Sens to Mâcon).
November 11, 1719: Creation of the oldest mutual assistance organisation, the "Société de Saint Vincent" in Volnay.
1720: Champy, Bourgogne's oldest merchant company was founded in Beaune and is still in business today.
1728: The first book devoted to the wines from Bourgogne, written by Father Claude Arnoux, is published in London.
July 18, 1760: Prince Conti (1717-1776) acquires the "Domaine de La Romanée", which now bears his name.
1789: French Revolution. Church-owned vineyards confiscated and auctioned off as national property.
October 17, 1847: King Louis-Philippe grants the village of Gevrey the right to add its name to its most famous cru – Chambertin. Other villages were quick to follow suit.
1851: First auction of wines grown on the Hospices de Beaune estate.
1861: First classification of wines (of the Côte d'Or) by Beaune's Agricultural Committee.
June 15, 1875: Phylloxera first detected in Bourgogne (at Mancey, Saône-et-Loire).
1900: Creation of the Beaune Oenological Station. April 30, 1923: Founding of La Chablisienne, Bourgogne's first cooperative winery.
April 29, 1930: A ruling handed down by the Dijon civil courts legally defines to the boundaries of wine-growing Bourgogne (administrative regions of Yonne, Côte-d’Or, and Saône-et-Loire, plus the Villefranche-sur-Saône area in the Rhône).
December 8, 1936: Morey-Saint-Denis becomes the first AOC in Bourgogne.
October 14, 1943: Creation of Premier Cru appellation category.
October 17, 1975: Crémant de Bourgogne attains AOC status.
Jully 17, 2006: Creation of Bourgogne's 100th appellation: “Bourgogne Tonnerre”.
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