Archive for the ‘Wine News’ Category
So did the world just change for producers of red wine? We won’t know the commercial impact on winemakers of the latest resveratrol revelation for some time. The degree to which the recently announced study on the positive effects of ths anti-oxident found in red wine motivate folks to drink more red wine is unquestionably being fantasized about here in wine country. This story of wine’s positive effects certainly has gotten more coverage than past stories…stories and studies that ovr…
Yesterday’s New York Sun ran a rather interesting and entertaining article on the crazy ascent in prices of the worlds most collectible wines. The star of the show these days is, apparently,1945 Mouton Rothschild, which recently sold for $290,000 for a case. According to the article many of the "trophy wines" are spiraling up in price, a trend that began in the early fall. The question is why? Jeff Zacharia of Zachys Auction House explains the upward momentum this way:…
It appears the French will keep at it until they get the results they want. For 30 years a certain humiliation infested the French wine industry as a result of the "Paris Tasting of 1976" in which California wines bested the French in a taste off. With great hope for vindication, the French watched the recreation of that tasting just this year. Yet again, California wines bested the French. Not content to be good PR practitioners and let this issue…
The Wine Spectator is celebrating its 10th year in the on-line business. Wow…10 years. I recall when the Spectator first went on-line. It was fairly early in the whole process and it seems a long time back. There were a few wine sites on the web back in ’96, just not that many good ones. And there were not many winery web site. The emergence of winespectator.com gave promise to potential of wine on the web. In early 1997 the…
I know it sounds strange, but it strikes me that the age of new technologies, "the communications age" if you will, seems to have had a fairly small impact in the wine industry. Yes, there is the annual Wine Industry Technology Symposium, but in general the convergence of technology and wine seems very much in the background. This makes sense, in a way. Wine is still and likely always will be an agricultural based pursuit. When folks talk about wine,…
