Category: Wine News
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
French Winegrowers Invade England
No, no, no. Not the same ones that are rioting in the streets. This is a more peaceful (if not
If You Can’t Drink ‘Em, Wear ‘Em
France, as anyone who follows the wine business knows, is in trouble. Too many grapes, too much wine, and not
Buying Wine For Retirement
Leave it to the practical minded Brits to come up with this one. According to a new United Kingdom law,
Things I Missed in May
I checked out for four weeks and I missed a lot of stuff. Rather than subject you to posts one
