Category: Wine News

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

Lowering The Octane

Certain readers *you know who you are* like to harp on the alcohol level issue a lot. And to be

Fingerprinting Wine: Your Tax Dollars at Work

Lanthanum, Cerium, Uranium, Vanadium, Chromium, Manganese, Strontium, Barium, Titanium, Rubidium, Zinc and Copper. Sounds like a bad flashback from honors

China’s The Biggest Market For Everything, Even Wine

What would happen if the Chinese got to be as rampant wine drinkers as the Japanese? The wine world would

On The Rise Down Under

Australia recently awarded a set of medals to its best winemakers, including its best emerging winemaker and I happen to

Motes In The Vineyard: The Next Big Thing

Start the Mission Impossible theme song and put on your night vision goggles, because spy technology is coming soon to

The Great Australian Wine Classification

Well knock me down and bowl me over, I had no idea that someone had attempted to classify the top

More Sniping at the Top of The Wine World

If it’s not one thing, it’s another. The American wine critics and the European ones seem to make it a

Move Over Sharpshooter, There’s a New Bad Bug In Town

Being a winegrower is tough enough, but now apparently winegrowers in Italy have to deal with Biblical plagues in order

What Wines Do Americans Drink With Dinner?

I live in a different universe than most wine drinkers in this country. And you do too, most likely, just

Watch Out Stoli, Here Comes Priorat

If I had to place Russia as the next likeliest big market for wine, I probably would have placed it

Look Out NY, Here Comes CA, (and Vice Versa)

OK. Now we can say that the May Supreme Court decision has actually changed something. Wildly misunderstood, this ruling simply

Un-Corking Wine: Technology To Save Spoiled Bottles

Even as I post this I’m shaking my head in disbelief. I haven’t heard as outrageous a claim for a

And You Wonder Why the French Have Problems…

I hope my French readers can distinguish between my criticism of the bureaucracies and intellectual quagmires that make up their

How Much Cesium Would You Like With That Bordeaux, Sir?

Archaeologists have Carbon-14 dating to help them identify the age of ancient artifacts, and now European wine professionals have their

Alsace: Great Wines, Backward Thinking

I had to read this news headline twice just to make sure I wasn’t dreaming: “Alsace wins right to drop

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