Archive for the ‘Wine Business’ Category
TAKE "THE MEANING OF WINE BLOGS" SURVEY NOW!________________________________________________________________________ It appears that the European Union is on track to institute a variety of winemaking and wine marketing reforms, assuming the top winemaking countries don’t find a way to shoot them down. What I find fascinating is the rationale for the opposition to the reforms. Among the reforms: -The EU will remove 500,000 acres of the "least viable" vines. This is roughly the amount of all of the vines planted in California…
Over at the Dover Canyon Winery Blog, Mary Baker points to something that she calls "Tennessee Hypocrisy". Besides the catchy phrase, it’s a pretty accurate description of a new law the state has put into effect that will have everyone who buys beer carded, but not if they buy wine. It would be a happy day if this were the first bit of legal and ideological hypocrisy that was produced by those who are in charge of the sale and…
I think there are folks out there for whom it would be truly shocking to learn that having knowledge about wine does nothing to enhance or detract from its sensory pleasures. Yet, this seems to me, as well as to philosopher Kent Bach, to be unquestionable. Dr. Bach considered just this issue in a 2004 address at the "Philosophy & Wine" conference in London. (pdf) The address was essentially an exploration into how we humans process information we get from…
This pretty much made my day! I do believe a star is born.
"The House of Mondavi", a new book by Julia Flynn Siler, is a very unusual wine book. As an indication of just how unusual take a look at what the "Customers who bought this item also bought" at Amazon.com:Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of the Lazard Freres & Company. Not many books are…
