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Today on Good Morning Interwebs, we spoke with Philip James, CEO of Snooth.com. Snooth is the world’s largest wine site, and Philip shared an impressive rundown of the company, told us about Al Capone’s involvement in American selling and gave some great tips on how to eyeball a good bottle of wine.

Those of you who tuned in live got an excellent rundown of how to pick a good bottle of wine. Philip helped Alli and Meghan estimate the price/value of a bottle of wine brought to their last party by a friend (an Altos las Hormigas Malbec). Ustream decided to stop recording after about 19 minutes, so here’s a little recap of the top things you should pay attention to when looking for a good bottle:

1. Check the punt: The indent on the bottom of a wine bottle is a good indicator of glass quality. If the bottle is flat on the bottom, the glass isn’t very well made. The deeper the indent on the bottom of the bottle, the more expensive it was to make.

2. Look for seams: Wine bottles are often made by melting two sides of glass together. More expensive bottles are made of blown glass, meaning they don’t have any seams at all. It may be rare to find a bottle under $15 without seams. But if you’re paying over $20, a lack of seams becomes more important.

3. Etchings on the glass: Similarly, it costs more money to etch the glass. Etchings on the bottle up the cost — and likely value — of wine bottles.

4. Don’t worry about years for wines made outside of Europe: Vineyards in California, New Zealand and South America are often located in areas with consistent temperatures. If you know a winery in one of these places that you like, chances are that its quality will be consistent over a variety of years. In Europe, where rain and sunshine are much less predictable, wine age matters more.

5. Download Snooth’s iPhone app: Snooth will tell you where and how to buy a good bottle of wine while you’re out shopping. And give you reviews of specific wines you’re interested in.

I learned a lot about buying wine today. Even if you can only get the first 20 minutes here. Super fun episode.

Can’t. Stop. Watching.

Theinterwebs:

Today on Good Morning Interwebs’ Wake Up With a Start Up:

Alli and Meghan went to Buzzd to speak with Nihal Mehta and Deepen Shah.

We were reminded that start up hours do not often begin at 9A, but it was a great show. Nihal and Deep just got back from visiting Apple and Twitter in San Francisco and gave us some dirt on what those companies are up to as well as some really great insights into the state of social in mobile. (Bonus: Deep closes the show with some pretty amazing beat boxing skillz.)

If you’d like to visit specific clips, here’s what we talked about and when:

http://theinterwebs.tv/post/241581507/today-on-good-morning-interwebs-wake-up-with-a

Super fun episode today. Axe advertising and beat boxing. Two great tastes that go great together.

heyitsnoah:

For the record, I totally disagree with this method of eating chicken wings. I thought he was going down the right road when he said find the bigger end of the wing, but the secret at that point is to just go for it. You hold onto that end and then just eat the hold wing, pulling out just two bones and impressing all your friends. There is no room for this pulling the meat off the bones and dipping it mumbo jumbo.

Literal Consumption: How To Eat A Chicken Wing

Taking a trip to Boka tonight for Korean fried chicken wings. This video is crazy talk. That said. Wow. I’m getting hungry.