Archive for the ‘Wine News’ Category

Dec 18, 2012

The Top Wine Stories Coming in 2013

What issues will the wine trade and the more active wine consumers be talking about, be concerned with and be reading about in 2013? Predicting what is to come is not really that difficult if you read the tea leaves without splashing them around too much and stick with a concentration on the past. What follows, in no particular order, are my top ten issues that will rise to the top in 2013 by virtue of what has come before…

Nov 29, 2012

The Decline and Divide Among French and American Wine Culture

In France, still I think the undisputed center of the wine world, per capita consumption continues to drop. A new report out of France shows that the the average French adult now consumes not more than 1 glass of wine per day. This amounts to an annual per capita consumption level of roughly 53 liters. To give you a sense of the on going and historic decline in French wine consumption, consider that in 1965 average per capita consumption of…

Oct 30, 2012

Top 10 Wine Stories Needing to be Written

You would think that with the proliferation of wine blogs, wine publications, daily newspapers wine coverage, publicists working in and around the wine industry and all the magazines that indulge in wine and wine country-related content, that there would not be any more story angles left to explore where wine is concerned. Not true. Here are some story angles and plots that, if well packaged and well-pitched, I’m betting an editor somewhere would jump at. The Best Views in Wine…

Jun 7, 2012

A Short-Sighted Decision in Mendocino Wine Country—Inevitable?

The demise of the Mendocino County Winegrape and Wine Commission by a no confidence vote of its members is bad news for that region's industry. It also points to a perennial gulf that exists between the two fundamental elements of the supply side of the wine industry, growers and wineries, that is reliably difficult to bridge. In the case of the Mendocino County Winegrape and Wine Commission, a promotional organization founded in 2006, reports have it that when the membership…

Apr 3, 2012

Deborah Harkness On Wine Blogs, Vampires and Writing

I like Deborah Harkness for a whole bunch of reasons. I first came across her when I discovered her wine blog, Good Wine Under $20. And I wasn't the only one who discovered Deborah's well written, witty, and well-focused wine blog that gives the budget conscious among us a place to look for reasonably priced wine. She has won two American Wine Blog Awards for Best Wine Review Blog and Best Single Subject Blog. I liked her for the passion…