Winner Announced in BuyWithMe/Wine Enthusiast Giveaway

Group buying site BuyWithMe is offering a $55 voucher for Wine Enthusiast for $25.

Related to this offer, I ran a contest to give away one of the vouchers - courtesy of BuyWithMe.  Each comment left on the blog post received one entry, and each person who linked to a specific item on Wine Enthusiast's website received an additional entry.  I count 13 entries from these, each numbered in the order they were received.  Michelle, the first commenter, gets entries number 1 and 2 because her comment included a link for example.  I couldn't tell whether Rosie888's comment was legit (it seemed primary aimed at promoting another site) so Jay gets entries 3 and 4.

I also received 4 entries via E-mail: They get entries 14-17.

Finally, 6 entries via Facebook: They get entries 18-24.

I then drew a random number between 1 and 24 and the winning number was 16:

That makes the winner the 3rd E-mail I received which is someone I don't know named Clifford.

Congrats, and thanks to everyone for their interest.  Thanks to BuyWithMe for sponsoring the contest and to Wine Enthusiast for running the deal.  If you were waiting to see whether you won the contest to decide whether to buy the voucher from BuyWithMe it's still available through Sunday night:

This $25 for $55 BuyWithMe deal runs through Sunday night.


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Hiroshi Fushida Beppe Gabbiani Bertrand Gachot Patrick Gaillard Divina Galica

Scarecrow Second Label Unboxing Photos

Flying high off a 100 point Wine Advocate rating for their 2007 Scarecrow, check out these shots for the packaging of Scarecrow's second label wine - the 2008 M. Etain:
 Pretty impressive - I wonder what kind of treatment the flagship wine receives?
With a $225/btl release price and current auction prices of the '07 Scarecrow approaching $600/btl it's intriguing to seek a taste of their wines. One way to taste the greatness is with this second label Monsieur Etain that goes for $125/btl.

Another is to seek out Scarecrow winemaker Celia Welch's Corra where she's the winemaker and owner: http://corrawines.com

Or you could just live vicariously through RJ's Wine Blog. His notes on the '06 Scarecrow and the '08 M. Etain. 

Question of the Day: Have you ever tasted a wine rated 100 points by Wine Spectator or Wine Advocate? If so was it a disappointment? Or could you see where their perfect rating was coming from?


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Mercedes-Benz A-class Concept ? Auto Shows

It may be a front-wheel-drive compact underneath, but the A-class concept is liquid lust. With automakers from St. Petersburg to Seoul presenting show cars heralded as the future of wheeled urban logistics, the Mercedes-Benz A-class concept taking the stand at this year?s New York auto show is a breath of fresh air. (It also will [...]

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Mike Harris Cuth Harrison Brian Hart Gene Hartley Masahiro Hasemi

Malaysia Saturday quotes: Toro Rosso

Sebastien Buemi - 12th: "I am very happy with how qualifying went today, as it is the second time in two races that I have produced a good performance, improving lap after lap. Unfortunately, I had a problem in Q1, when the left sidepod came off, but the mechanics worked well to fit a new one very quickly. I am satisfied, because in twelfth, we are not far off the Mercedes and quite close to Q3 and so we must continue to work hard to improve

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Robert Allen Labonte Terrence Lee Labonte Randy Joseph Lajoie Kevin Paul Lepage William Ashton Lewis Jr

Green Party gains halt the Mosel bridge project

These prime vineyard sites in the Middle Mosel were to get this $500 million bridge: But now it will remain like this… …thanks to Green Party gains at the recent state elections. Read more. Raise a glass of Kabinett! images

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Floyd Anthony Raines Scott Russell Riggs Hiroshi Fushida Beppe Gabbiani Bertrand Gachot

Pagani Announces Dealership Network for the U.S., Population: 2

California: Beautiful, broke, blanketed in smog, and now the home to the only two Pagani dealerships in the States. With the company officially bringing its newly introduced 690-hp Huayra to the U.S., Auto Gallery of Beverly Hills?which also offers McLarens, Lambos, and Fazzas, among other brands?will serve as an Angeleno outlet, while San Francisco?based British Motorcars [...]

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David Hobbs Gary Hocking Ingo Hoffmann Bill Holland Jackie Holmes