It’s folly to try to keep up with all the latest wine Web fodder, but a few items of local note just popped up:

*One of the cool things about working at a wine store is that it generally means sampling a lot of juice. Mike Johnson at Sorella Wine & Spirits is taking advantage of that in a very 2009 manner: tweeting tasting notes (try saying that five times real fast). Check out his 140-character-or-less blurbs here. As he told me in an email yesterday “It’s interesting to see the variety of wines a shop like this actually tastes through.”

*Meanwhile, locally based Sacre Bleu has a vibrant, sexy new website up and going. The youth-oriented operation catches the eye immediately with a salacious photo of France’s most buzz-infested wine figure of the moment, the erstwhile Miss France 2004. She lost her title after posing for Playboy but has gained some respect in the wine world, including a mention from the Wine Spectator (which has a considerably more sedate photo of Mlle. Laetitia Bleger).

*Finally, John Skupny, who went to high school here during a peripatetic youth, gets a well-deserved shout-out  for his wines from Alder Yarrow, perhaps the most respected reviewer in the blogosphere. John’s a wonderful guy, and his Lang & Reed cab francs are seriously yummy. Cool label, too.

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