Ah Goh Mumble Grump Harumph Feh, Then
The BBC reports on wine fraud, in the process showing A) one of the best mustaches ever and B) a face that could only belong to a citizen of Great Britain. To be honest, the report isn’t that great,...
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The L.A. Times posits that $15 is the new $25: To an overwhelming degree, retail customers are spending less for a bottle of wine than they did two years ago. In 2009, we wrote in these pages that, in...
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Celebrity Wine Update: Really Desperate Housewives
As reported previously, Real Housewives of New York demi-celebrity Ramona Singer is delving into the wine business, belching forth a Pinot Grigio aimed at precisely the demographic most likely to 1)...
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Dumping (On) Rosé
Every now and then I make a belittling crack about rosé. When I do that, someone defends the stuff, either because they are personally insulted or because they believe my disdain for pink wine brands...
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Wine Media From a Parallel Universe
I don’t know which is the worse idea: creating a wine magazine that is only available on a single technology platform (the iPad) or making the launch issue read like a Jancis Robinson fanzine. By the...
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Party All Night Long, Middle-Aged Rocker-Style
AC/DC is releasing its own wine. Sourced from wine regions in the Barossa and Coonawarra, varieties include Back in Black Shiraz, Highway to Hell Cabernet Sauvignon and You Shook Me All Night Long...
View ArticleWill Someone Please Discover Paso Robles?
USA Today today features an article Paso Robles: It’s the Unidiscovered Wine Country. Before that article was even published, Travel Writer’s Magazine disputed the premise with a headline: PASO ROBLES...
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These Aren’t the First Women Who Don’t Want to Associate With Me
Wine in Heels is a women-only wine club in Aspen, Colorado. It is women-only because men are so horrible and women can have lots of fun without them — or maybe its because there’s a buffet and the...
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