Category: Wine News

The Ocean As Your Wine Cellar

I don’t know why every crackpot idea when it comes to wine has to do with aging wine, but it

Some French Continue To Get It Completely Wrong

I continue to be amazed at what seems to me to be the jaw-dropping stupidity of the major marketing and

Unlocking The Secrets of The First Winemakers

I would post this story just for the accompanying picture of the caveman stomping wines in a bearskin, but as

Making It Hard For The Rest Of Us

I once had a heck of a time getting some wine back from Australia. Without getting into the long drawn-out

The Asia Effect

It’s now becoming such a fact in the wine world that I’ll be very reticent to post much news about

Why Blow Up A Winery?

Can you imagine this headline?: “NAPA, CA: This morning a bomb exploded outside the Robert Mondavi winery off of Highway

Metal = Color in Your Wine

We learn more about wine every day. And I mean that in both the immediate and the global sense of

The Dangers of Buying Wine in Dallas

I got angry when I read this story. Really angry. It’s bad enough that owner Michel Monzain of Tony’s Wine

Helping You Remember Where You Put That Bottle

A new story about how red wine is good for your health comes out every 2 weeks. Think I’m kidding?

Good Enough To Bathe In

I’ve written about wine from Thailand before — a shocking place if ever there was one for growing wine, so

Pharaohs Prefer Red

We’ve known that the Egyptians had wine for a long time. If the funky jars with wax stoppers and grapey

Vines in Space

It was only a matter of time before some crazy rich winemaker decided to get himself blasted into space carrying

Who Wants Pooh Bear on Their Wine Label? Apparently Everyone

We all do it. We all occasionally buy a wine based on its label. If you don’t you either are

Why France Is In Trouble

Well, there are lots of reasons that the French wine industry is headed for (already met with?) disaster, but recent

Much Better Than Talking Wine Labels

The talking wine label will no doubt die the slow painful death reserved for only the most ridiculous of technologies.

Cyber-oenology v1.0

We live in a world of remote technological gratification, where we can outsource our own jobs to people we watch

Fewer grapes this year in lots of places

Harvest is nearly here. Throughout California, and in many other places in the country, grapes have already gone through veraison,

Israeli Wine on The Radio

While we’re on the topic of smaller, out of the way wine regions, I might as well post this piece

The World’s Least Likely Wine Region?: Thailand

Ninety degree heat. Ninety percent humidity. Incredibly high precipitation. Flat, low altitude topology. Sounds like exactly the wrong place to

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