If you’re a budget-conscious wine consumer like me, you know that wine at restaurants is frequently overpriced.  A great way to save a few bucks when dining out is to bring your own wine—hopefully a wine with an outstanding QPR that you discovered on Cheap Wine Ratings.  But how do you find a restaurant that [...]

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I’ve commented to friends in the past that wine has become a commodity. There are so many options, that wine producers need to do something different to break through the clutter. If you read the copy on wine labels and advertising, it all starts to sound the same. In order to do something different, some [...]

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According to an article published yesterday in the Financial Times, Amazon.com is gearing up to enter the online wine sales market.  Amazon is currently recruiting a Senior Buyer “responsible for the acquisition of massive new product selection, as Specialty Foods is an emerging segment and the Sr. Buyer will work to build out entirely new [...]

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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology hypothesized that marketing factors, such as the price of a product, could have an impact on experiential perceptions such as pleasantness. And they put the idea to the test with wine. In the study, recently published by the National Academy of Sciences, researchers told participants that they would [...]

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2½ bottles of wine a week can save your life That’s the headline from a story published in The Times today.  According to this article, those who drink up to 14 drinks each week have a lower risk of death from heart disease than than both heavy drinkers and non-drinkers.  “A weekly moderate alcohol intake [...]

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I’ve been seeing more and more organic wine in stores lately, but I haven’t been motivated to try much of it.  Why?  Because they tend to be unstable and I’ve never really found a good one—by current US “organic” standards anyway.  The reason is that sulfites cannot be used in the production of wines labeled [...]

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Just a few days ago I was commenting on how it amazes me that with shipping costs and all we are able to get inexpensive wines all the way from Australia.  Well that may not be the case for long, but not because of shipping costs, drought is the culprit. Australia has been suffering its worst drought [...]

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