Archive for the ‘Wine Media’ Category

Jan 18, 2022

A Last Post and Preview of Coming Wine Coverage

This is my last post here on my way to a new publishing platform. If you choose to follow me to my new publishing platform at Substack, I’ll begin publishing there tomorrow. To read any future posts you’ll need to subscribe: CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE But with this last post, I want to preview a few things I’ll be writing about at the new home of FERMENTATION. A look at the stranger arguments states and opponents of wine shipping are making…

Jan 17, 2022

A New FERMENTATION and a Promise

It’s pretty clear at this point that I’m incapable of looking at something then not saying something about it. This affliction can’t be addressed through medication. It’s something I’ve known for some time now that I just have to give in to the compulsion. And that’s what I’ve done for the past 17 years and through 3,500 posts here at Fermentation. It’s my intent to continue to do this at a new subscription-based newsletter/website version of Fermentation hosted by Substack…

Jan 13, 2022

Transitions in the Wine Media—And For This Writer Too

The wine media is a slow-moving ship. Its turns and transitions come slowly. When changes do come to the wine media, they are notions and innovations at first, then the spigot opens and it seems as though it must have always been this way. Up until the 1960s and into the 1970s, the wine media in the United States consisted primarily of books providing the basics on a select number of regions and wines One occasionally would find newspaper articles…

Jan 10, 2022

Influence, Inspiration and Value in the Wine Media

I’ve often thought it would be a fascinating project to map out The Family Tree of Winemakers. The project would consist of connecting present-day winemakers to winemakers of the past and follow the influence and inspiration down the line: Smith worked under Jones; Jones worked under Washington. Washington worked under Johnson, etc, etc. In the U.S., this would essentially be an exercise in tracing back most of our great winemakers to Andre Tchelistcheff. This could be done with winemakers because…

Nov 4, 2021

The Stench of Envy is Rising in the Wine Industry

Oliver Styles’ recent call for drinking equity for wine industry workers is a variation on a common theme. It’s not a theme you see so enthusiastically endorsed these days primarily because long experience has demonstrated that the Marxist/communist principle “from each according to his ability to each according to his needs” has proven to be such a disaster for humanity. But to Styles’ argument, laid out at Tim Atkin site, put simply he advocates that the most coveted wines in…