Back in October the "Women Win Critics Board" launched offering to deliver information and critiques of wine from a woman’s perspective. I for one was very intrigued by the offer. While I sometimes wonder about the significance of the difference, there is no doubt that men and women see the world differently. Mary Baker, of Dover Canyon Winery—a wine blogger herself—is, I believe, the mover and shaker behind the WWCB. Well, entries at the site have been sparse since October….

Rarely do governments in the U.S. attempt to control drinking by raising prices. Price increases (Read: Taxes) are usually instituted raise revenue in general. But this isn’t the case around the globe. Often times tax hikes on alcohol are instituted to decrease drinking in general. Now the BBC reports that the US Prevention Research Center looked at alcohol sales in Sweden between 1984 and 1994 and found that tax increases do not necessarily reduce drinking. In fact, the study found…

Wouldn’t it be great to have an American leader with this kind of sense of humor, not to mention some familiarity with wine? Although it is a bit undiplomatic of the Italian Prime Minister to bash English wine the way he did. Yet it seems the EuroLeaders take their food and wine serious. England hosted last week’s European Union Summit and was charged with feeding and flooding guests. Apparently it didn’t go as planned. We have this tidbit reported from…

Look around our culture and society and take note of the innumerable ways INNOVATION drives our daily lives and the way this force of nature constantly propels forward commerce into new territory. Innovation in the wine industry however, while ever present, bumps up against the kind of barriers that simply do not exist in so many other areas. While computing, telecommunications, healthcare, travel, publishing and so many other industries seem to move foreword faster than most of us can account…