Ok, everyone… calm down. Pour another glass of something nice. Have a sip. Relaaaaax. Feeel zeee tension leeeaaaving your body… Every once in a while, we get a roundup/list/ranking of wine websites, and then oscillate between being happy for some of the sites on the list, and getting bent out of shape about the ones…
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No No No No No No NO (Wine Is Still Not A Good Investment)
Recently, the Drinks Business reported that, according to Vin-X’s head of procurement Martin Pruszynski, “fine wine investment has been the best overall performer when total growth across major asset classes since 1988.” No no no no no no NO. Not again. It seems that almost every year I write this retort. My view on this…
Millennials Aren’t Changing Wine – Access To Information Is
If you read Lettie Teague’s recent WSJ column entry, titled How Millennials Are Changing Wine, you will find some interesting data suggesting that Millennials are not, in fact, changing wine nearly as much as many of us think that they are. First, you’ll have to wade through polemics such as the opening quote from New…
Pennsylvania’s Latest Attempt To Alienate Its Wine Lovers
In what apparently is Pennsylvania’s latest attempt to prove that it is, in fact, the single worst state in the Union for wine lovers, a recent ruling by Chester County Judge Edward Griffith has put the kibosh on saving a few thousand bottles of wine confiscated from resident Arthur Goldman (who was caught in a…