Posts Tagged ‘wine tasting’

Jun 29, 2006

How To Taste 1200 Wines in 2 Days

I got my invitation in the mail today for August’s Family Winemakers of California Tasting. Based  on the preliminary list of wineries that have committed to pouring at the event, it appears there will be upwards of 400 California wineries at Fort Mason in San Francisco on August 20 and 21. Most of them will be relatively small wineries too. The question for anyone going to this event is how to attack it. After all, we are talking about a…

Jun 21, 2006

Moving “Other States” Wines Into the Mainstream

While California wines dominate cosumption of domestic wines, other states across the country have seen their wine industries reallly take off. A combination of high quality bottlings and the attraction of a local wine country seem to have spurred this "other state" explosion in wine production. The question is, how to get more people to try wines from "Other States". I like what Ohio did recently. They recently staged the Ohio Wine Challenge. Taking a page out of Robert Mondavi’s…

Jun 16, 2006

Those Who Help the Cause

Just a reminder to those reading FERMENTATION that there is a cadre of folk who help the FERMENTATION Cause. Check them out. Visit their websites and businesses. They include: K&L WINE MERCHANTSA fantastic wine retailer located in the San Francisco Bay Area and on the Internet. They recently got serious props from the Wall Street Journal for just about everything they do in the store and on the Net. INERTIA BEVERAGE GROUPThe industry experts on how to sell wine on…

Jun 9, 2006

“This Wine Is Rubbish”…well, not really!

From the "Be Careful What You Say" File: Decanter reports that a maker of Portuguese wine Vida Nova was provoked by his host on a British TV show to denounce his own wine as "That’s rubbish. I wouldn’t pay for that, it’s tainted, it’s insipid. It tastes like vinaigrette. I’d never buy that." Ouch. Of course it was a blind tasting. The winemaker, Cliff Richard, should have known better. But what’s more interesting is how this episode in self emulation…

May 30, 2006

A Witness to the Tasting

I suspect we’ll be seeing more of this in the wine writing world in the weeks to come. Scott Tracy is the sommelier at La Toque in Napa Valley and very well known for his expertise. He also maintains a blog and has written about his experience at the recent re-enactment of the Paris Tasting. It turns out that Scott poured and worked the tasting. Scott’s a pretty astute guy and mentions something that I never thought of when writing…