OpenWine Consortium

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What is The OWC?

The OpenWine Consortium (OWC) is a global wine industry association, featuring the world's premier online wine business network, on a mission to improve the world of wine. Please join this network if you are currently in the wine business or you are going to be in the industry in the near future.

The OWC Code of Conduct

If you are in doubt about the rules, please refer to the Community Code of Conduct

Some very important rules are highlighted there. Here is a short excerpt:

* Keep all arguments courteous and avoid personal attacks.
* Forum moderators reserve the right to remove any post at their discretion. If the abuse is habitual we can also disable or ban any user from the network at our discretion.

It is rare that people are banned, but it does happen occasionally, mostly for "spammy activities" such as announcing dating sites on others' comment pages.

Highlights From The Community

Joel Vincent

Amazon Puts Wine Program on Hold - Wine Business News

Amazon.com, considered the world’s largest online retailer, may be bailing on its wine program, which never really got going, winebusiness.com has learned. After some two years of preparation, Amazon.com appears to be pulling the plug. In an email communication sent to wineries today, senior account manager Dini Rao said the company recently decided “not to resume shipping.”

“As you know, we were excited to work with you to build the AmazonWine business, Rao said in an email that went to winery… Continue

Posted by Joel Vincent on October 23, 2009 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

Joel Vincent

FTC chimes in on blogging, to the tune of $11K!

FTC has created a provision aimed at curtailing blogging shills who blog just to generate buzz or money from brands. The ruling, written up by Wired Magazine, has implications for blogger recieving samples from the wine industry.… Continue

Posted by Joel Vincent on October 6, 2009 at 10:17am — 5 Comments

Paul Mabray

KAPOW - 5 wine iPhone apps that rock (chosen by VinTank) - a Palatepress.com exclusive

Yep - it's official - the top 5 wine iPhone apps can be found on Palatepress.com by clicking here - http://bit.ly/OITL7. These were the best of the best and we can't wait to watch their success grow as a result of all their hard work. Tell us what you think? Did we miss your favorite wine app? What features do you want to see in a wine iPhone application?

As mobile continues to inch its way into to the wine industry, I am sure all the iPhone app… Continue

Posted by Paul Mabray on October 6, 2009 at 9:18am

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[This is a general discussion] Varietal is an adjective. Cabernet is a variety. A varietal wine is a mono-cépage, a wine made from one grape variety. A 100% Malbec can be called a "varietal wine". "Surprisingly versatile for a varietal" might me...
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Established Guidelines for using OWC and maximizing productivity


Learn to network more effectively on OWC
Look at this short page to see how to put more effective links into your blog, forum, event or group posts or on your own profile page.

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R. Resnick

The Word "Varietal" - for fun 2 Replies

Started by R. Resnick in General Discussion. Last reply by R. Resnick 4 hours ago.

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Started by Luiz Alberto - TheWineHub in General Discussion. Last reply by Louise Rosinsky Nov 6.

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