Archive for the ‘Wine Business’ Category
Howard Goldberg has released what I believe has become his annual wrap up of the International Wine Auction Market over at Decanter.com. A couple very interesting tidbits are reside in his article. 1. New York-based auction house and retailer Acker Merrall & Condit bested all other auction houses, including Christies, with total sales in 2006 of more than $60 million. 2. Winebid.com comes in as the fifth largest international wine auction house with $22 Million in sales. They came in…
Ours is a culture in which information almost always serves commerce. This is particularly true of wine information. Nearly all of the wine information we consume leads us in one way or another to disposing of our income or our capital. The critical question, then, is how good is the information we consume and use? Lenn Thompson of Lenndevours and Appellation America as well as other information venues seems to me to have combined good information with commerce with the…
For as long as I’ve been in the wine business I’ve heard rumors of "specially bottled" versions of wines that get sent on to reviewers and tasting panels. These special bottlings are supposedly designed to meet the palate preferences of particular reviewers or they are wines bottled up from the very best barrels that are supposed to be blended in with a number of other lots. I’ve never confirmed this actualy happening. But in all honesty, I believe it has…
I was moving through the various satellite imagery of wineries and vineyards at Appellation America today and came across these images of what is surely the largest winery facility in America, if not the world. Talk about a "Tank Farm". Gallo’s production facility in Modesto, California is more like a "Tank County". I’d love to tour this facility. By all the accounts I’ve ever received, this is but the tip of the iceberg. WOW Now, THAT’S a Tank Farm!! Just…
I think we can all agree that wine labels should not misrepresent what’s in the bottle by printing place names and appellations on them when none of the wine in the bottle came from that place or appellation. This is the position of The Center For Wine Origins, an organization begun by the vintners in Champagne, Portugal and Jerez, takes and promotes. In fact, just today they released a statement concerning the Federal Governments most recent pronouncements on the issue…
