Uma Thurman shows that a Merlot tasting can get messy.

The Bride had just sliced the head off her second masked Yakuza gangster when it hit me: what had really just happened over the past few days? Here I was, sprawled on the futon watching Kill Bill Volume 1, lulled by a warm comatose feeling of exhaustion and satisfied post-hectic workweek euphoria.

What a week, I thought looking at the screen as The Bride, aka Uma Thurman, drove a nail through the head of a Japanese schoolgirl.

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LetΓò¼├┤Γö£├ºΓö£├╗s delve into 2012. What are the predictions for this yearΓò¼├┤Γö£├ºΓö£├╗s vinous calendar? Here are four. Readers are invited to add a fifth. The best entry will receive a bottle from WineGoggle’s private cellar. Continue Reading »

Variety is the spice of life, in more ways than the figurative. With the SA wine industry resorting to selling cookery books to supplement its international promotional activities in light of dwindling exports, other ways are being sought to fund promotional activities overseas. Continue Reading »