Category: Wine News
Charles Banks: The New Man Behind Mayacamas
When Charles Banks, one of the former owners of Oakville’s Screaming Eagle winery and the head of investment firm Terroir
Robert Parker and Cesar Chavez Inducted into Vintners Hall of Fame
What do the world’s most influential wine critic and one of America’s foremost community organizers have in common? As of
A Firestorm of Speculation Over Robert Parker’s “Retirement”
Twitter and the Blogosphere erupted with chatter this morning as Lettie Teague’s article in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Big
Evil in Montalcino
Words can’t express the utter perfidy of the act I learned about this morning via a tweet from @vinoroma, a
French To Destroy the California Wine Industry Over Foie Gras
OK people, now is the time for outrage. If you value the California wine industry, then you can’t ignore the
Meet The German Wine Queen
Beauty pageants have come and gone in America as a source of prime time entertainment. Where the Miss America pageant
GOTCHA!: Wine Collector Rudy Kurniawan Arrested by the FBI
Though it may go unnoticed by a large part of the wine world, the high-end collecting and auction world was
2009 Burgundy Vintage According to Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
Pick your metaphor. It’s the wine world’s equivalent of being invited to the White House for a dinner, or to
Napa’s Best Cabernet: Tasting at Premiere Napa Valley 2012
It looks like the California wine industry is officially out of the recession. Yesterday, at the annual Premiere Napa Valley
Wine, Rap, and the Power of Product Placement
comes out that glorifies the grape, and sales shoot through the roof. Rap may well be the best thing that
Australia as a Lesson on Currency and the Wine Industry
. Thanks to the vagaries of the international currency markets, the Australian Dollar has appreciated greatly against the Euro, and
Gallo and Constellation Screwed by U.S. Tort Law
I’m sure I’m going to catch hell for this post from any number of quarters, but it needs to be
Ensuring Organic Wine’s Lousy Reputation for Years to Come
I’ll bet you didn’t know there was an anti-sulfur lobby did you? Sure, you thought, there are those winemakers who
“Big Jay” Miller Departs Wine Advocate in Wake of Scandal
With eerily similar rhetoric to Herman Cain’s “suspension” of his campaign for President this week, and amidst an equally scandalous
Time for a Margin Call on your Wine?
I wrote last week about the great slurping sound that can be heard from China these days when it comes
The Downside of AOC
, near Bordeaux, whose sales of sugar apparently went off the charts right about around harvest time this year. The
China the Wine Juggernaut
Did you need any further confirmation that China is now the 8000000000 pound gorilla in the global wine industry? From
International Crime Syndicate Strikes… German Vineyards!?
In several places in the Southern German wine regions of Pfalz and Württemberg, thieves have been making off with hundreds
