Money Magazine reports: "In restaurants, many people order the second-least-expensive wine on the list, reports Money magazine. They don’t want to spend a lot, but they don’t want the absolute worst pick. "The problem with using price as a sign of quality is that the cost of a bottle is often influenced by factors that have nothing to do with whether you’ll actually enjoy drinking it. For one thing, people buy expensive wines as a way of demonstrating sophistication and…

Why don’t you drink Texas wine? I know you don’t. However, it’s very likely that you drink California, Washington, Oregon, New York and wines from any number of country’s across the seas. But not Texas. The only people who drink Texas wines are Texans. I know this. I’ve worked within the Texas wine industry. Texans are often accused of being….well…parochial. That’s no crime. Americans are probably the most parochial of the international-minded world powers. But Texans combine parochialism with more…

It is being reported that..One Billion Liters of Wine Is In Storage in Australia! Someone help with the math here because I keep looking at this number and I really am having a hard time believing it. Is this the equivalent of more than 100,000,000 cases of wine sitting in storage in Australia? 100,000,000 plus? And consider that the Australian Harvest is just around the corner. I can’t imagine what the grape growers in that country are looking at in…

Jennifer Rosen, writing in the Rocky Mountain News, hands it back pretty good to the Europeans on the issue of "place name" regulations on food and wine. A recent bi-continental accord between the U.S. and E.U saw a number of traditional place names associated with food and wine gain greater protection. Using terms such as claret, Haut-Sauterne, hock, Marsala, , Moselle, port, retsina, Sauterne and Tokay on bottles from places other than these places are set to go by the…

"It cannot be that American artificial wine ends up on the German market without the consumer recognizing it. The German quality wines will be drowned by cheap laboratory wines because of this deal." "Artificial Wine" "Laboratory Wine." The German Farm minister who is dissing American winemakers here is doing so in the course of explaining his opposition to the tentative trade deal between the U.S. and EU. It’s nice to see that the French, with all their smug, condescending, self-assurance…