Archive for the ‘Wine News’ Category
Wine Business Monthly’s Cyril Penn reports in the San Francisco Chronicle that we are buying more expensive wines than in the past. For the record, in this calculation "expensive" equates to $15 and a above. Without seeming like a snob, which I realize is hard at times for me, that doesn’t strike me as "expensive". However, in the overall scheme of things (that "scheme" being what most people tend to spend on wine) $15 is "expensive". According to Cyril’s reading…
News is out that the MKF Research Study on the American Wine Industry demonstrates that wine and grapes contribute more than $162 Billion to the American economy. Pretty staggering! There is so much interesting information in this report it’s hard to really talk about it all. So I want to focus on one piece of interesting information: Between 2000 and 2005 the number of wineries in the United States increase from 2,904 to 4,929: A 70% INCREASE in the number…
It appears that word is out that 2 in 100 (2%) of screwcap-closed wines are infected with the smell of sulfur…or "likened by some to burning rubber, spent matches or even a schoolboy stink bomb." This is still a rate of bottle taint that is at least half that of cork-closed bottles. The news accounts that covered this discovery make note that the smell blows off. However, many folks are advising to stay away from RED wines closed with screwcaps…
The Wall Street Journal’s wine guides John Brecher and Dorothy Gaiter produced a thought provoking year end article today on the state of wine and trends they see. Among their most interesting observations is this one: "The first isn’t about wine itself, but the selling of it. This is the most revolutionary time in wine retailing since the end of Prohibition. The combination of the rise of Internet sales and the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down some laws concerning…
Is it just me or does anyone else have a hard time imagining Silver Oak Winery inhabiting the Roshambo Winery facility on Westside Road in Healdsburg? In fact, I can’t imagine any other winery successfully occupying this amazing facility. News broke today that Roshambo Winery sold its facility to Silver Oak Winery. This is the first time in a long time that I’ve found myself lamenting a sale in the wine industry. The brand is still owned by Naomi Brilliant…
