What wine would you buy right now if you had $500 to spend on it? I mean, let’s say you were given $500 cash, right now, and told the only condition upon receiving it was that you had to spend that money on wine, and you had to buy it right now. What would you…
Category: wine buying
Wine.com Top 100 of 2009 and the Not-So-Changing Tide of Wine Sales
This week, Wine.com – the largest on-line wine retailer, and still everybody’s “love-to-hate-‘em” choice for performing their own self-serving wine distribution ‘sting’ operation last year – has released the third annual list of their top 100 best selling wines. The top 10 in that list potentially tell us a lot about U.S. consumer wine buying…
China and Wine: By the Numbers
The November 23, 2009 edition of the New Yorker contains a fascinating article by Evan Osnos titled “Letter From China – Reds: The creation of a wine-loving class.” The article recounts a short period in the history of the A.S.C. Fine Wines company based in Beijing and run by two Canadians (a father-and-son team by…
Millennial Winemaking On Millennial Wine Drinking (The 1WineDude Hailey Trefethen Interview)
By now, you’ve heard of the Millennials. Much has been written about this next generation of wine consumers, who according to NPR average 80+ text messages a day, have more disposable income (excluding mortgages) than their parents, are just reaching the legal U.S. drinking age, and are poised to displace Baby Boomers as the next…