In honor of Alice Fiering’s recent call to dump the whole of California’s wine production down the nearest sewer pipe, I thought it might be fitting to look back in time to a period where France didn’t have a defender as vocal and virtuous as Alice. A time when the headlines screamed disarray for the [...]
January 9, 2008
From a comment on Tom Wark’s most recent post ($50,000,000). The last thing this world needs is a presumptuous prick like you telling everyone else that a system thats worked great for 70 years is corrupt. You think you’ve got this figured out don’t you. If there weren’t any wholesalers you and your faggy California [...]
October 4, 2007
I’m going to interrupt my pinot recipe series here. My apologies in advance for slipping back into wine marketing, but it’s what I’ve been dealing with all week and I thought I’d share. Wine Packaging is Sad I’ll get this out of the way right up front – direct to consumer wine packaging is pretty [...]
November 9, 2006
Provocative post title sure, but we all know they exist. Here’s a case in point: in the comments of a recent post Megan had this to say: We were just in the Russian River for our honeymoon and much enjoyed the experience….200 bottles of wine and 12 clubs later we are home. Just a word [...]
October 24, 2006
Those poor French. First we had the Judgment of Paris. After the Judgment of Paris we had the Re-Judgment of Paris. Then Francois Mauss declared that the dual-locale element of the Re-Judgment made the results unreliable and biased. Mauss set out to create a tasting that would even the playing field, selecting a vintage, 1995, [...]
May 9, 2008
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