Welcome to the Weekly Wine Quiz, and hopefully today you brought your wallets because we’re testing to see if you’re in the know on the world’s priciest current-release wine. Standard disclaimer: based on feedback from ever-so-vocal-and-intelligent peeps like you, I supply the quiz question each week, but do *not* supply the quiz answer directly in…
Raiders Of The Lost Art (Tasting Not-So-Recent Releases At La Rioja Alta, S.A.)
There’s a scene at the end of Raiders Of The Lost Ark (please don’t tell me you haven’t seen it… it’s only the greatest action/adventure flick yet made by humans) where an unnamed warehouse worker wheels a large box, presumably containing the Lost Ark of the Covenant (which turns out to be a WOMD) into…
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…
Wine Between The Covers (3 Wine Books For Oenophiles To Grab Before The Summer Reading Season Ends)
There’s still time, people. Summer’s muggy, sunny weeks are not yet entirely on the wane. They’re just mostly on the wane. And so those bibliophile oenophiles who are looking for last-minute beach-side vacation or porch-side stay-cation reading to accompany a cold glass of Italian Vermentino in the hazy heat (you are drinking Vermentino, right?) still have…