Category: Wine News
Glass Wine Bottles Strike Back. In the Wrong Direction.
It’s not every day I get the opportunity to display my inner cynic. But I’m still cackling at the little
Scottish Wine: Crimes and Misdemeanors
Not ordinarily known for their wine or wine drinking habits, the Scots have recently been making news in the world
Get Paid to Travel the World, Tasting Wine
File this under things I always meant to do but have never gotten around to…. Every year an organization called
Marketing and Branding Do Not a Winery Make
For anyone who hasn’t been paying much attention or who doesn’t really care, the wine industry going through a rough
Yet Another Wine Column Casualty in the Newspaper Business
Wall Street Journal wine columnists John Brecher and Dorothy Gaiter have quietly announced their departure. Their Christmas Day column, the
How to AVOID Selling Wine in Pennsylvania
So if you had a bunch of grocery stores, and those grocery stores sold wine, but you didn’t really want
Did You Hear That Sound? Wine Retailers Sigh in Relief
Wine retailers all across the country, and especially online today breathed a big sigh of relief. Probably more than a
Wine Blogs are Now* Regulated by the FTC
This morning the Federal Trade Commission announced a new set of rules specifically targeting blogs like this one. In short,
Wine Geek Out: What They Know About Oxygen and Wine
. We still don’t know a lot of things about wine. It’s a complex animal, where a lot of variables
Winemaking as Feminism in Thailand
that pops up on my radar. The latest news from Thailand’s wine industry involves the story of Nikki Lohitnavy, who
Wine Signs of the Times
I’m not sure why, but there has been a spate of interesting developments in the wine world in the past
The Canary in the California Wine Cellar?
These days are filled with unexpected and disastrous business news to be sure. I’d imagine not many people were very
The Chinese Roots of California Wine
Every time I visit Meadowood in Napa Valley, I find myself spending time in front of a reproduction of an
A Game Changing New Marketplace for Wine
Did you feel that just now? It was the wine world shifting under your feet. As of this morning, the
All That Grand Cru Wine is not Worthless After All
In the real olden days, grape farmers had to deal with plagues of locusts, rampaging armies, and all manner of
All He Wanted Was a Bottle of Wine After Work
I’ve been working really hard lately. Not here on Vinography, but at the day job that pays the bills. So
The Future of Wine: Urban Vineyards?
In an age of backlash against big-business agriculture and of increasing value placed on local, sustainable living, the phenomenon known
Winemaking as Therapy: Japan’s Autistic Winery
When I first started drinking wine, I had all sorts of romantic notions about what winemaking involved. I though of
Somali Pirates Take Ransom in Wine
Apparently the stepped-up patrols of U.S. warships off the coast of Somalia and increased vigilance on the part of ships’
