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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!
One of the "seven best wine blogs." 
One of the three best wine blogs
On April 23rd, 2007 at 11:11 am ,Gretel Zigel wrote:
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???
On April 26th, 2007 at 7:05 am ,Dr Vino’s wine blog » Blog Archive » Seeing green and being green wrote:
[...] 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 [...]