Just who are you readers of FERMENTATION?-You are overwhelmingly male-Spread across the age spectrum-Make pretty good money-Are very well educated-Probably married-There’s a 50/50 chance you work in or around the wine industry-Are heavy wine drinkers-Are likely to spend on average more than $15 on a bottle of wine-Don’t really like your strawberry ice cream-Prefer imported autos-Are likely a dog, rather than a cat, person-Prefer substantive reading over gossip Not that surprising, but interesting. We received a total of 157 responses…
I’m not sure what to make of this:"Greenpeace today revealed that France’s iconic sparkling wine, Champagne, is threatened by radioactive contamination leaking from a nuclear waste dumpsite in the region. Low levels of radioactivity have already been found in underground water less than 10 km from the famous Champagne vineyards….The Champagne producers are facing two nuclear timebombs – one already leaking at Soulaine, and one planned at Bure. The wine producers in the Rhone region stood up to the nuclear…
If you are a wine blog reader you’ve probably noticed that most of what’s being written in the wine blog world is mostly produced by wine lover, rather than wine insiders, let alone wine insiders of any heft. We have few blogs that are written by wine writing pros and some winemaker blogs. So it’s nice to see an insider with great heft contributing to a blog. The heftyman is Corbin Houchins. Corbin is one of America’s leading wine lawyers….
What is "a taste" of wine? This is the issue that the Director of the Alcohol Beverage Control office of the State of California is clearing up. In a memo from the Directors office to it’s division and branch offices, the Director has made clear that "Since the Legislature has determined that a 1 ounce serving is sufficient and reasonable to acquaint a consumer with the qualities and characteristics of wine in an on-sale environment, it is reasonable to conclude…
In the course of reconciling it’s wine shipping laws with last year’s equality-imposing Supreme Court decision, the state of Vermont has done something very interesting. A new law (S58) signed this month says both in-state and out-of-state wineries may now sell and ship wine directly to retail shops and restaurants, effectively cutting the middle man wholesaler out of the loop. This, in and of itself, is a pretty dramatic step given the stranglehold wholesalers seem to have over the legislative…
