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A panel of wine experts uncorked and tasted wine recovered from a Civil War-era shipwreck. Unsurprisingly, the sommeliers detected hints of saltwater and gasoline. What is surprising is that people paid to watch the tasting. (Reuters)

Idaho’s own Split Rail Winery aims to push the boundaries of wine by selling the beverage in aluminum cans. The winery’s operators envision customers taking the cans on adventures in the great outdoors and then returning the cans for recycling. Ah, the optimism of youth. (KTVB)

San Francisco has seen an exodus of sommeliers in recent years, leading some critics to fret that restaurants’ wine standards will fall into decline. One commentator blames healthy “sommelier culture”s in New York and Los Angeles, so maybe this’ll work out well for us. (San Francisco Chronicle)

NBA star Yao Ming is looking to expand his Napa Valley winery through a $3 million crowdfunding campaign. If you have $5,000 lying around, it might not be a bad investment: the firm has already sold $8 million of wine worldwide and performs reasonably well with critics. (CBS SF)

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