Linkin’ logs: 1-14-16

Lots of stuff out there on the World Wine Web, as per usual, A few faves:

• A French “Sideways”? If anyone can pull it off, winery-owning thespian Gerard Depardieu can.

• This is pretty funny: A British neuroscientist chronicles the effects of going a whole month without alcohol.

• No surprise here: Most wineries understate the amount of alcohol on their bottle labels.

• Oh ho ho, it’s magic: Making bottles disappear, and new ones appear. And elsewhere in the world of TV, this ad spot is rather droll.

• I’m with Blake Gray: These mergers of humongo wholesalers are unseemly, and perhaps should be illegal.

• Finally, a philosophical take on bubbles: