Archive for the ‘Wine Education’ Category
The Wine Market Council, an industry organization concerned with broadening the appeal of wine has re-launched its WineAnswers.com website. In the press release that announced the re-launch I found this piece of information fascinating: "with an estimated 259 million cases consumed last year (in the U.S.), many Americans still feel that wine is too complicated and don’t have the answers about wine service and enjoyment." Of course that begs the question, how many is "many Americans." The Wine market council…
My take on it is that over the past two years there has been a building buzz in wine circles about whether or not the high alcohol, big, juicy, soft wines have run their course. I’m hearing more and more people take the "run its course" position. Even more have fessed up to really tiring of this style of wine that’s been building for the past decade and a half. I can’t help but wonder if this rising concern will…
The venerable wine industry trade publication Wines & Vines has announced its redesign of its website. And they did very nice job. For quite some time the W&V website was a bit chaotic. And that’s too bad because the publication does a great job of producing useful, insightful articles on everything wine. The new site features sections containing headlines, news briefs, columns, features and a calendar. Most of the information is generated by staff, rather than taken off the newswires…
I think there are folks out there for whom it would be truly shocking to learn that having knowledge about wine does nothing to enhance or detract from its sensory pleasures. Yet, this seems to me, as well as to philosopher Kent Bach, to be unquestionable. Dr. Bach considered just this issue in a 2004 address at the "Philosophy & Wine" conference in London. (pdf) The address was essentially an exploration into how we humans process information we get from…
"I swear to God Walter, if you mention one thing about ‘tannin’ or ‘immature vines’ I’m gonna stick the cork, and the bottle, so far up your ass that you’re gonna need a corkscrew to gargle!"DAVE from The Winery Channel’s Rant & Roll channel commenting on "Walter the Wine Snob" One day soon there will be an all wine, all day television cable channel probably located on your dial somewhere between 402 and 430. Until that day comes, however, we’ve…
