Archive for the ‘Wine Business’ Category
I hesitated to provide the quote below. The reason is that it suggests that the article written by Clark Smith at Appellation America is not the best, most thoughtful exploration of "The Big Wine" phenomenon yet written. In fact, that’s what it is. Rather, by providing this quote, it suggests that Clark’s "Some Like It Hot" article is just one more lobbing of a bomb. It’s not. It’s much more. However, this small piece of Clark’s article, which does indicate…
I love American Viticultural Areas (AVAs). They help make a PR Guy like me busy. That’s why my heart was wounded when the Tax & Trade Bureau (TTB) of the U.S. Treasury Department, the agency that approves and regulates AVAs, announced a few weeks ago that they were suspending all new approvals or consideration of new AVAs…pending some sort of review of the process I’ve been wanting to write about this wound to my heart for some time but have…
Now here’s something that would never happen in America: A French consumer group is making a serious complaint that wines from AOC-approved regions in France don’t taste they way they think they are supposed to, leading to recommendations that stricter standards be set for identifying wines that can actually carry said appellations on their label. Yet this is exactly the claim that a French consumer group is making concerning the country’s AOC wines. Specifically, the group—UFC-Que Choisir—claims that pressure to…
The wine industry takes a lot of heat for being elitist. It’s the way we talk about wine, the way we seem to revere it and it’s the trappings of the industry that cause this impression. One of trappings of the wine industry that can’t be disputed is that we all tend to surround ourselves with what many would call “high culture”. The kind of music that tends to find its way to wine industry events and into wine country…
One of the very best (meaning fun) winery events I’ve ever attended was the Roshambo Rock-Paper-Scissors World Championships. As Virginie Boone at WineAbout Blog points out, there was fear that Roshambo would not be able to carry on with this contest of skill, wit and intuition after having sold their winery to Silver Oak. Naomi Brilliant wouldn’t let that happen. The 5th Annual Roshambo Rock-Paper-Scissors World Championships is set for October 6th at the Flamingo Hotel in Santa Rosa, Sonoma…
