Archive for the ‘Culture and Wine’ Category
Imagine the great French chef Joel Robuchon announced he would no longer be serving French wine in his restaurants because it was too expensive and wasn’t high enough quality. Exactly. The French people would have a "Teezee Feet" (that’s "Tizzy Fit" in English). Well, here you have the equivalent of what has occurred in Portugal where one of the leading producers of Portuguese wine has announced they are abandoning cork closures for their wine in favor of screw caps. Those…
Wine lovers tend to get their capsules in a bunch when it comes to the issue of rating wine. In particular it is the issue of a 100 point score, a perfect score, that generates lots of controversy…and not a lot of scrambling to get their hands on the wine. I thought it might be fun to take a look at another industry that places a similar type of emphasis on ratings: Video Games. We are talking about a billion…
If there must be a HUGE national debt, I suppose it’s good that Wine Country gets some of that spending. Next weekend President Bush and what must be an amazingly large entourage, will roll into Napa Valley and completely take over the Meadowood Resort. That is to say, no one but the President and his people will be staying a the famed and very expensive Napa Valley Resort. I think they’ll like it. But what will it cost. Meadowood’s low-end…
The franchising of wine is something that has never really gotten of the ground. Presumably this has been the case because there was not a perception that the market for wine was large enough or because the vast majority of wine is purchased in the much more convenient confines of the grocery store. WineStyles seems to be changing this with a wine store franchise that has grown to over 100 franchises in just a year and a half. The WineStyle…
While I’m not really sure about this, I think I’m on pretty firm ground when I suggest that every industry has it’s small collection of "mad geniuses". You know the type I’m talking about. It’s not so much that they are truly mad, but rather so much more creative and innovative than the rest of the folk in their industry that they stand out. They seem…special. I was thinking about this yesterday as I savored Easter Ham with my family…
