Archive for the ‘Wine Business’ Category
Imagine walking into a bookstore and finding that novel you’ve been looking for. It’s right there on the New Releases hardback table. The inside flap, right there on the book, notes the cost is $25.99. You bring it up to check out counter and they inform you that the cost is actually $39.00. Welcome to the wine industry…well, sort of. Wineries don’t print their suggested retail prices directly on their bottles or labels. But they most certainly do have one….
Massachusetts is one of those places that still has amazingly antiquated laws on the books regarding wine and alcohol. One of those laws allows wine only to be sold in "package stores". Basically a "package store" is a liquor store. The law is being challenged and it looks like People are in favor of it. The proposal in MA to end the package store monopoly on wine sales doesn’t so much have an organized opposition as it does an organized…
Why did you buy that wine? Why did you pay more for this wine? These are questions that wine markers want answers to. The answers hit on your expectations, experiences and comfort level with wine. And I’m curious about those thing and how they relate to the fine readers of FERMENTATION. So…It’s survey Time Again.TAKE THE FERMENTATION WINE PURCHASING DECISIONS SURVEY. Your responses are 100% confidential. I don’t know who you are and no one else will know who you…
Here’s the skinny on what I’ve been hearing about the upcoming harvest on the North Coast:LOTS OF PINOT HANGING IN THE VINEYARDSLOTS OF MERLOT HANGING IN THE VINEYARDS LOTS = Wow…that’s a lot of grapes you’ve got there. One story that’s being passed around in Sonoma is that an Alexander Valley Grower with lots of Merlot planted dropped his price for the crop to $350 a ton. That’s nothing….And no one is buying it. And we aren’t talking about poor…
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill that would have recognized Zinfandel as "The Historic Wine of California". What a GirlyMan!! Well, maybe that’s not fair. Let’s at least see what he had to say in his veto message: "To name only one of the many of the varietals produced in California as thehistoric wine fails to recognize the many world class varietals produced in the State.With California’s unique micro climates, diverse geography, outstanding soils, andindustrious growers, farmworkers and vintners who…
