Archive for the ‘Wine Gossip’ Category

Dec 6, 2006

A Great Day for Winemakers/Bloggers

Regular readers of Fermentation will know that I’ve enjoyed following the exploits of Amy and Matt, the proprietors of Domaine de la Grameire. I get to do this via their fine blog. Amy and Matt basically bought a vineyard in the town of  Saint Quentin la Poterie in the Rhone Valley, set up shop, and went about making wine they like. A dream for many of us. They’ve been working hard and from the looks of things having a good…

Nov 22, 2006

The “Top 100 Wines” Impact

*******************************************************************************************Don’t forget to take the Fermentation Survey!CLICK HERE to take the survey…All I ask is three minutes of your day.******************************************************************************************* Russ Bebbe over at the Wine Hiker Blog has done a preliminary assessment of the effect on a wine’s aftermarket price when it hits the Top Ten of the Wine Spectator Top 100 list. The Top 100 came out Monday. What was unique about the list is that the #1 wine was relatively inexpensive Ar around $69 (2001 Casanova Di…

Nov 15, 2006

Nancy Pelosi, Right Wingers and a Bad Understanding of Napa

With the prospect prior to the last election and confirmation afterward that Representative Nancy Pelosi would be come Speaker of the House of Representatives, lots of attention is now being paid to the congresswoman from San Francisco. It turns out that much of that attention has been turned to the fact that Speaker Pelosi and her husband Paul own a vineyard in Napa. But not just that she owns a vineyard. The folks writing on Right Wing blogs, for Right…

Nov 10, 2006

A Good Year…A Bad Wine Promo?

"Sideways" the movie was able to have such  huge impact on the wine market and on Pinot Noir sales primarily because it received such great reviews. It was not a big blockbuster so it too these kind of reviews to put rears in the theater seats where they could encounter the happless wine lovers and the picturesque vineyards of Santa Barbara. The Acadamy Award nomination sealed the deal. There was hope that the new film, "A Good Year", might have…

Oct 30, 2006

Obsession and Reckless Consumption

Talk about getting this boy excited. I wake up yesterday, tromp out to the lawn to pick up the Sunday papers, sit with coffee by my side and open the my favorite Sunday reading material. And what do I see? An article that brings together two of my favorite things in life: Baseball and wine. There in my Sunday paper is an article about Tom "Terrific" Seaver, one of the best pitcher to ever throw a baseball and, apparently a…