"More research is needed". This is the conclusion that journalists Jerry Adler and Tara Weingarten writing in the most recent issue of Newsweek leave their readers with in an article exploriing the impact of terroir in California vineyards…or at least the notion of terroir in the California wine industry. The article is a pretty basic rundown and serves to introduce the idea of terroir to American readers. However, the article does dispell one myth that seems too often bandied about:…
I don’t mind gimmicks, as long as they are good gimmicks. Rainier Wines out of Washington seems to have come up with a decent idea for a Gimmick Wine: Mad Housewife. To quote from the press release announcing the new brand: The company spent nearly a year conducting nationwide testing panels to let women design and create wines that they would buy regularly. Utilizing extensive testing in 10 metropolitan markets and comprehensive Internet surveys of hundreds of target women, Rainier…
My last entry, about what kind of coverage the wine industry needs, as well as the comments that have come in, got me thinking about the type of wine writing that has been lost. The greatest loss to the American wine writing genre came in 2000 when the industry’s greatest advocate and greatest critique died. Jerry Mead Through his syndicated column, one of the longest ever such writings, his "Wine Trader Magazine", and with his New World International Wine Competition,…
The only problem with the Wine & Vine BC Blog is that there just isn’t enough of it. What what there is is pretty darn good…and from a perspective I’ve been hoping to see more of. Wine & Vine BC is the blog of British Columbian winemaker Bradley Cooper. One of the better known BC winemakers, Cooper brings the perspective of the winemaker to the wine blog world, a refreshing change from the commentator role that most blogs play. I…
Wine writing needs some new media outlets. Why? Because there are some media that present a style and content that are so fitted to wine we (wine lovers) should be so lucky to explore it through their eyes and words. The New Yorker Surely America’s best mass distributed periodical of criticism. The New Yorker’s always ironic, educated, in-depth critiques of choreography, film, literature, music and more make you think, rather than observe. These long form critiques/articles tend always to solve…
