You've always meant to start that wine tasting group, right? It's just about the last New Year's Resolution that we haven't broken. Well, now's the time. Introducing Third Thirsty Thursday. The concept is the spawn of the Interweb's wine darling Gary Vaynerchuk. "When you and the rest of your crew each bring a bottle, it's the best way to get started with wine," he said. Your first opportunity is next week Thursday, March 20. Continue......

Gary Vaynerchuk has a message for Bay Staters: Rise up against your oppressors. He says it’s a “sad state of affairs” that the place that hosted the Boston Tea Party allows itself to fall victim to “archaic wine shipping laws.” Vaynerchuk, the 30-something host of the wildly popular Wine Library TV podcast – “the Internet’s most passionate wine program” – says that “a few special interest groups have shut things down” and not allowed wine......