Archive for the ‘Wine Education’ Category
Is it possible to judge a wine without ever having laid foot in the region where it was produced? I've been wondering about this really fascinating question ever since reading this comment by MW Tim Atkin, made at the opening of Fine Wine 2010 in Spain in April and published in Wine Business Monthly: "Critics who judge wines without visiting the country they come from are insane and insulting….Our interpretation of fine wine regions and grape varieties has barely evolved…
Lettie Teague ranks not only as one of America's most important wine writers, but as one of its most talented. And it's important to recognize that one does not always imply the other. After spending many years as the Wine Editor and Executive Wine Editor at Food & Wine Magazine, she was recently appointed to be one of the wine writers at the Wall Street Journal. Lettie has won two James Beard Awards, including the coveted MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing…
Why should you, the reader, give any credence to what I write on this blog? Why indulge in my version of reality by giving my words the time of day? I'm not a professional writer? I don't get paid to write this blog. I don't have an editor that I have to satisfy. I think the reason I have a decent readership is because it's pretty clear I have some sort of expertise in what I choose to write about,…
Over the course of the past month or so I've been involved in helping generate opposition to H.R 5034, a bill promoted by alcohol wholesalers that paves the way for states to pass discriminatory legislation that would harm wineries, retailers and consumer access to wine. My involvement has been on behalf of the Specialty Wine Retailers Association, an organization of wine retailers, wine clubs and auction houses across the country that work to open more states for retailer to consumer…
House Resolution 5034 is by far the most audacious attempt ever by America's beer, wine and spirit wholesalers to takeover complete and total control of the country's alcohol beverage market and, in the process, create circumstances in all fifty states that assure consumers only have access to the slim number of wines to which wholesalers decide consumers ought to have access. But perhaps most sinister is the fact that if H.R. 5034 passes, it will put out of business an…
