Archive for the ‘Wine Media’ Category
An article Sunday in the Boston Herald on the demise of Quarterly Review of Wine after 35 years of publishing its thickish, glossy, well-edited magazine brought to light a couple of issues that fascinate me. First, in the article publisher Richard Elila made the case that "small vineyard owners with hands stained purple from grapes — has given way to corporate ownership over the decades." Richard says: “In the old days, I could pull five or six (vintners’) names out…
Today in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman writes about the era of "average" being over: "Being average just won’t earn you what it used to. It can’t when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius." He's correct, it seems to me. Looking just at the amazing tools now available to wine marketers that are ALSO FREE and you get…
“We are marrying the authority of print to the authenticity of experience.” This is how Diane Malloy, the new publisher of the venerable Ladies Home Journal, explained to the New York Times that publication's transformation to a magazine that will be primarily created with user/reader generated content. It got me wondering a few things. First, would wine lovers support a magazine primarily made up of reader/user-generated content and, second, when marrying the "authority of print" with the "authenticity of experience,…
I don't like the idea of taking issue with Jamie Goode. He's smarter than me. He's a better writer than me. And he's better looking than me. But on this issue of "Authentic Wine", the topic of his latest book, Jamie gets it wrong. In fact, it's the very premise of his and Sam Harrop's "Authentic Wine: Toward Natural and Sustainable Winemaking" that can't be justified. In their introduction they write: "Wine is now at a metaphorical fork in the…
What can be expected in the wine world in 2012? What trends will move the industry in 2012? These are questions I think about more often this time of year if only because I find myself more reflective as the year ends and another arrives. These are the trends I see being most prominent in the wine industry in 2012. CONTINUED REFORM OF WINE REGULATIONSAfter elections in Washington State that got the government out of the business of selling spirits…
