Wine writers from the Dayton Daily News, MSNBC, The New York Times, the Akron Beacon… …and now, USA Today, the American newspaper with the largest circulation (not counting the National Enquirer), will be producing a wine blog. USA Today’s food and wine writer Jerry Shriver announced today that he will be writing a wine blog beginning May 12. According to Jerry, he will produce daily entries that focus on reviewing wines that cost $15 or less and are generally available…
Yes, as this photo and This Press Release tell us, September is California Wine month. However, this photo offers us the opportunity to hold the first.. FERMENTATION CAPTION CONTEST The best caption to go along with this photo, submitted in the comments section, receives a year long subscription to the award winning Pinot Report Newsletter. The Caption Contest runs until next Tuesday at 11:59pm. Yours truly will be the judge. What could Governor Arnold be thinking???? Hat tip to Jason…
It appears the feds have approved new rules that will allow a winery to now only need 85% of a wine to come from a particular vintage in order for it to put that vintage date on its bottle. The rule had been 95% from a single vintage with up to 5% coming from other vintages. However, it appear the new 85-15 rule does not apply to wines with an American Viticultural Area designation on the label. This means that…
Millions of people have taken to the streets today, left their place of work, and raised their voices in support of the notion that all immigrants are and have been a fundamental building block of the greatness and identity of the United States. I wanted to write about the impact of immigrants, documented and undocumented, to the California wine industry. Instead, I think I’ll point my reader to a post that I wrote for Wine Sediments that deals with this…
It should be clear to anyone who has paid close attention to the wine media over the past decade that the amount of good, entertaining and useful information available to consumers and the trade has exploded in quantity. Interestingly, it is on the Internet, not the print media, where the vast majority of that exploding information is coming from. This makes the evolution of the wine media different in no way from the rest of the media. There is a…
