With all my talk recently about alcohol not being anywhere near as important factor in quality wine as overall balance, I asked myself a tough question in the wake of that talk, and I couldn’t come up with a good answer. When was the last time you’ve had a wine that was over 16% alcohol…
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Getting Hip At The Washington Post, And Raiding The Wine Expense Account With Ornellaia At Playboy.com
A couple of weeks ago, I cropped up in two totally unrelated places on the “Global Interwebs” – Playboy.com (which you expected, right?) and The Washington Post (which, admit it, you didn’t expect). The Washington Post article, titled Some wineries adding a little hip to swirl, sniff and sip routine, was one of those rare…
Wine Blogging Isn’t Dead (To Those Who Are Paying Attention)
I hate this debate. Actually, I love the debate, I just hate the way it’s being presented; namely, without a single shred of hard evidence to back up the claims that wine blogs are now dinosaurs. People, wine blogging is, quite literally, about Kindergarten age. Wine blogging has been around for something like 7 years,…
What The Recent Debates Over Low/High Alcohol Tell Us About The Future Of Fine Wine Buying
NOTHING That’s the short version. Here’s the slightly longer version: Seriously, the debate (10 million plus search results, and counting!) over the perceived consumer trend towards lower alcohol wines (I’ve yet to see any convincing, hard data supporting this claim, by the way, in terms of any significant percentage shift of sales towards lower abv…