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Correspondences: vines and anthropology – part 1 11 November 2021 18:48 |
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Correspondences: vines and anthropology – part 1
Katia Nussbaum of San Polino in Montalcino, author of last year’s coronadiary and this stimulating discussion of biodynamics, was particularly struck by the winning article submitted by our 2021 writing competition winner Chris Howard, a researcher and anthropologist currently based in New Zealand. The result is a fascinating correspondence that we are publishing in four parts this week. The illustration is by Katia’s brother Jono Nussbaum.
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John
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Katia Nussbaum of San Polino in Montalcino, author of last year’s coronadiary and this stimulating discussion of biodynamics, was particularly struck by the winning article submitted by our 2021 writing competition winner Chris Howard, a researcher and anthropologist currently based in New Zealand. The result is a fascinating correspondence that we are publishing in four parts this week. The illustration is by Katia’s brother Jono Nussbaum.
[www.jancisrobinson.com]
John
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Re: Correspondences: vines and anthropology – part 1 11 November 2021 18:51 |
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Correspondences: vines and anthropology – part 2
Katia writes This is all overwhelmingly exciting and I need to read it all calmly … con calma. Thank you so much for all your thoughts. You see, unlike you, I do not work in an academic environment so I easily wonder if I am odd in the way I see things, but no – I am obviously in the best of company! And yes, also I agree that wine and vines are the ultimate meeting ground for nature and culture, where in practice, not just in theory, the boundaries actually do, on the ground, blur and overlap and become nonsensical.
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John
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Katia writes This is all overwhelmingly exciting and I need to read it all calmly … con calma. Thank you so much for all your thoughts. You see, unlike you, I do not work in an academic environment so I easily wonder if I am odd in the way I see things, but no – I am obviously in the best of company! And yes, also I agree that wine and vines are the ultimate meeting ground for nature and culture, where in practice, not just in theory, the boundaries actually do, on the ground, blur and overlap and become nonsensical.
[www.jancisrobinson.com]
John
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Re: Correspondences: vines and anthropology – part 1 11 November 2021 19:00 |
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Correspondences: vines and anthropology – part 3
Chris writes Glad to hear the harvest is going well so far. Sorry for my delayed response – been a bit touch and go lately. I’m very impressed, flattered and feeling slightly guilty that amidst all the work to do in this critical, culminating moment you engaged with my chapter on that level. I thought you might look at it once your ferments were finished and your wine put to rest for the winter. Clearly, your mind is as busy as your hands!
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John
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Chris writes Glad to hear the harvest is going well so far. Sorry for my delayed response – been a bit touch and go lately. I’m very impressed, flattered and feeling slightly guilty that amidst all the work to do in this critical, culminating moment you engaged with my chapter on that level. I thought you might look at it once your ferments were finished and your wine put to rest for the winter. Clearly, your mind is as busy as your hands!
[www.jancisrobinson.com]
John
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French winegrowers call for an international reform of the Olympic average for crop insurance policies 12 November 2021 13:52 |
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French winegrowers call for an international reform of the Olympic average for crop insurance policies
After a devastating series of frost, hail, mildew and drought events, the 2021 vintage has not only seen French wine production fall, but also the Olympic averages of insurance companies, in other words the average production over the last five years minus the two extreme harvests, the best and the worst. With small yields that can finally be insured (with an excess clause), “who could imagine that business managers would be stupid enough to take out an insurance policy just for the principle of being insured when it does not allow them to tackle the reality of adverse weather events”, claims Jean-Marie Fabre, chairman of the French independent winegrowers’ organisation.
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After a devastating series of frost, hail, mildew and drought events, the 2021 vintage has not only seen French wine production fall, but also the Olympic averages of insurance companies, in other words the average production over the last five years minus the two extreme harvests, the best and the worst. With small yields that can finally be insured (with an excess clause), “who could imagine that business managers would be stupid enough to take out an insurance policy just for the principle of being insured when it does not allow them to tackle the reality of adverse weather events”, claims Jean-Marie Fabre, chairman of the French independent winegrowers’ organisation.
[www.vitisphere.com]
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Music and wine – some reflections 22 November 2021 14:58 |
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Music and wine – some reflections
18 November 2021 We're republishing this article to coincide with today's account of an amazing tasting of rare grape varieties, organised by its author.
25 May 2016 Robert Slotover is a classical-music agent with an abiding love of wine, particularly that made from obscure grape varieties. Here he muses on connections between his two great interests.
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John
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18 November 2021 We're republishing this article to coincide with today's account of an amazing tasting of rare grape varieties, organised by its author.
25 May 2016 Robert Slotover is a classical-music agent with an abiding love of wine, particularly that made from obscure grape varieties. Here he muses on connections between his two great interests.
[www.jancisrobinson.com]
John
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World Wine Production In 2021: Almost Record Low, France Drops To Third Place 22 November 2021 15:14 |
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World Wine Production In 2021: Almost Record Low, France Drops To Third Place
2021 was a terrible year for wine production in several of the big wine-producing countries. Global wine production hit an almost record low of around 250 million hectolitres. All three big countries, Italy, France and Spain, saw substantial declines. France dropped from second place to third place in the ranking.
[www.forbes.com]
John
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2021 was a terrible year for wine production in several of the big wine-producing countries. Global wine production hit an almost record low of around 250 million hectolitres. All three big countries, Italy, France and Spain, saw substantial declines. France dropped from second place to third place in the ranking.
[www.forbes.com]
John
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Missing Wines 03 December 2021 15:11 |
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Missing Wines
Winemakers often are creative people who are happiest when they can experiment to see if they can improve on tradition.
Such activities, as noble and as fascinating as they are, often lead to projects that are simply not commercial. This is where wine marketing people come into play. They are typically ultra-conservative types, so-called bean counters who keep wine companies afloat by making sure that crucial funds are spent wisely.
[eks.creators.com]
John
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Winemakers often are creative people who are happiest when they can experiment to see if they can improve on tradition.
Such activities, as noble and as fascinating as they are, often lead to projects that are simply not commercial. This is where wine marketing people come into play. They are typically ultra-conservative types, so-called bean counters who keep wine companies afloat by making sure that crucial funds are spent wisely.
[eks.creators.com]
John
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Wine Takes a Holiday 03 December 2021 15:45 |
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Wine Takes a Holiday
We are smack dab in the middle of Hannukah, that time when latkes make their annual appearance on Jewish tables when debates emerge as to the proper preparation for this dish and when no wine in particular is served at the Hannukah table. And why is that? Why has no one type of wine emerged as the de rigueur pour for the Hannukah table? For that matter why has no single wine become the go-to pour for Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Fathers Day, Mothers Day, the Super Bowl, Fourth of July or any other designated holiday in the U.S? The answer is we (the wine trade) just aren’t trying hard enough.
[fermentationwineblog.com]
John
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We are smack dab in the middle of Hannukah, that time when latkes make their annual appearance on Jewish tables when debates emerge as to the proper preparation for this dish and when no wine in particular is served at the Hannukah table. And why is that? Why has no one type of wine emerged as the de rigueur pour for the Hannukah table? For that matter why has no single wine become the go-to pour for Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Fathers Day, Mothers Day, the Super Bowl, Fourth of July or any other designated holiday in the U.S? The answer is we (the wine trade) just aren’t trying hard enough.
[fermentationwineblog.com]
John
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I Say Variety, You Say Varietal, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Wine 12 December 2021 14:44 |
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I Say Variety, You Say Varietal, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Wine
It’s become common to say varietal in place of variety. What happened?
[www.pix.wine]
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It’s become common to say varietal in place of variety. What happened?
[www.pix.wine]
John
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Apocalypse, booze and Christmas: An ancient ABC 12 December 2021 14:49 |
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Apocalypse, booze and Christmas: An ancient ABC
For consumers of festive beverages, the news is bad: this holiday season, Guinness may not be on tap and glass for bottling wine is scarce. Climate disasters, like British Columbia’s floods, have further weakened already troubled supply chains.
[theconversation.com]
John
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For consumers of festive beverages, the news is bad: this holiday season, Guinness may not be on tap and glass for bottling wine is scarce. Climate disasters, like British Columbia’s floods, have further weakened already troubled supply chains.
[theconversation.com]
John
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Wine: New and old vs emerging and established 12 December 2021 14:46 |
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Wine: New and old vs emerging and established
For decades, the primary division in the world of wine was between the "Old World" of European wines and the "New World" of North America, Australia ND New Zealand, South Africa, and elsewhere. There is a need to update this for the modern age where emerging nations are creating products to compete in the global market with the old vanguard.
[phys.org]
John
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For decades, the primary division in the world of wine was between the "Old World" of European wines and the "New World" of North America, Australia ND New Zealand, South Africa, and elsewhere. There is a need to update this for the modern age where emerging nations are creating products to compete in the global market with the old vanguard.
[phys.org]
John
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Visionary tractor concept is as entrancing as the wine it helps create 12 December 2021 14:59 |
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Visionary tractor concept is as entrancing as the wine it helps create
Farm machinery specialist New Holland Agriculture has teamed with the automotive design mavericks at Pininfarina to present a concept that's sexier than a tractor should be. Designed to improve upon the way premium specialty grapes are tended to, the pod-like Straddle Tractor Concept navigates multiple rows through steep, narrow hillside vineyards to do its part in bringing the most luscious, aromatic reds and whites to dinner tables and cocktail hours the world over.
[newatlas.com]
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Farm machinery specialist New Holland Agriculture has teamed with the automotive design mavericks at Pininfarina to present a concept that's sexier than a tractor should be. Designed to improve upon the way premium specialty grapes are tended to, the pod-like Straddle Tractor Concept navigates multiple rows through steep, narrow hillside vineyards to do its part in bringing the most luscious, aromatic reds and whites to dinner tables and cocktail hours the world over.
[newatlas.com]
John
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The new entrants in the 2021 Power 100 17 December 2021 14:12 |
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The new entrants in the 2021 Power 100
The new entrants in the 2021 Power 100 came from Burgundy, Piedmont, the Mosel, Champagne and California.
Among them, Sylvain Cathiard ranked the highest, in 21st place.
Emmanuel Rouget made the biggest jump of 205 places.
[www.liv-ex.com]
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The new entrants in the 2021 Power 100 came from Burgundy, Piedmont, the Mosel, Champagne and California.
Among them, Sylvain Cathiard ranked the highest, in 21st place.
Emmanuel Rouget made the biggest jump of 205 places.
[www.liv-ex.com]
John
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WINE INTELLIGENCE’S INDUSTRY PREDICTIONS FOR 2022 17 December 2021 14:14 |
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WINE INTELLIGENCE’S INDUSTRY PREDICTIONS FOR 2022
The festive season comes with many traditions, one of which is the Wine Intelligence annual predictions for the wine industry in the coming year. Our predictions in December 2020 could be judged as reasonably insightful without being fully clairvoyant, and this year’s crop will bear some similar themes to those of 12 months ago.
[www.wineintelligence.com]
John
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The festive season comes with many traditions, one of which is the Wine Intelligence annual predictions for the wine industry in the coming year. Our predictions in December 2020 could be judged as reasonably insightful without being fully clairvoyant, and this year’s crop will bear some similar themes to those of 12 months ago.
[www.wineintelligence.com]
John
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Wine Was a Better Investment This Year Than Gold... or Even the Dow Jones 20 December 2021 14:05 |
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Wine Was a Better Investment This Year Than Gold... or Even the Dow Jones
After a record-breaking 2020, the growth in the fine wine market was even stronger in 2021.
[www.foodandwine.com]
John
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After a record-breaking 2020, the growth in the fine wine market was even stronger in 2021.
[www.foodandwine.com]
John
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Get to Know Sweet Red Wines 22 December 2021 14:27 |
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Get to Know Sweet Red Wines
There’s more to red wine than just big, bold, and dry
[www.pix.wine]
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There’s more to red wine than just big, bold, and dry
[www.pix.wine]
John
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Mom stunned over 5-year-old son’s first written sentence — ‘I like wine’ 28 December 2021 14:17 |
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Mom stunned over 5-year-old son’s first written sentence — ‘I like wine’
Mom Kirsty Jordan-Smith was in stitches when her five-year-old son’s teacher took her to one side to reveal his first written sentence — “I like wine”.
[nypost.com]
John
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Mom Kirsty Jordan-Smith was in stitches when her five-year-old son’s teacher took her to one side to reveal his first written sentence — “I like wine”.
[nypost.com]
John
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THE JAMESSUCKLING.COM ‘SURPRISE WINES’ OF 2021 03 January 2022 19:01 |
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THE JAMESSUCKLING.COM ‘SURPRISE WINES’ OF 2021
Out of the more than 25,000 wines the JamesSuckling.com Tasting Team rated during 2021, there were several stunners, many standouts, much excellence and more than a few misses. You can read all about our highest-rated bottles from the year in Our Top 100 Wines of 2021 report, and also choose your own favorites from each country by catching up on our Top 100 reports from France, Spain, Argentina, the USA, Italy, Australia and more.
[www.jamessuckling.com]
John
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Out of the more than 25,000 wines the JamesSuckling.com Tasting Team rated during 2021, there were several stunners, many standouts, much excellence and more than a few misses. You can read all about our highest-rated bottles from the year in Our Top 100 Wines of 2021 report, and also choose your own favorites from each country by catching up on our Top 100 reports from France, Spain, Argentina, the USA, Italy, Australia and more.
[www.jamessuckling.com]
John
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The Worst Things In Wine in 2021 03 January 2022 19:05 |
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The Worst Things In Wine in 2021
I look back at 2021 and see a year of progress in the wine industry. Granted, this isn’t a difficult position to take if we are comparing this year to 2020. Still, 2021 looks like a year of recovery, and there were positive moves in the regulatory and legal spheres.
That said, I wouldn’t want to be accused of being a pollyanna. There are things going on in wine in 2021 that were not so great.
These are the worst things in wine in 2021.
[fermentationwineblog.com]
John
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I look back at 2021 and see a year of progress in the wine industry. Granted, this isn’t a difficult position to take if we are comparing this year to 2020. Still, 2021 looks like a year of recovery, and there were positive moves in the regulatory and legal spheres.
That said, I wouldn’t want to be accused of being a pollyanna. There are things going on in wine in 2021 that were not so great.
These are the worst things in wine in 2021.
[fermentationwineblog.com]
John
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Full Belly Files: Diving Into Underwater Wine 03 January 2022 19:23 |
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Full Belly Files: Diving Into Underwater Wine
From Shipwrecked Wine to Seaside Dives
[www.independent.com]
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From Shipwrecked Wine to Seaside Dives
[www.independent.com]
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Developments in Poisoned Riesling case 03 January 2022 19:30 |
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Developments in Poisoned Riesling case
It's a brand new year but with all the celebrations it's easy to miss what happened in the last few weeks of 2021, here's a quick recap.
[www.wine-searcher.com]
John
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It's a brand new year but with all the celebrations it's easy to miss what happened in the last few weeks of 2021, here's a quick recap.
[www.wine-searcher.com]
John
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Need wine advice? Put down the app and ask your local shop. 10 January 2022 15:17 |
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Need wine advice? Put down the app and ask your local shop.
Who do you trust for wine advice? A friend or relative with whom you’ve shared a few bottles? The Internet? An app that claims to know the perfect wine for you based on whether you take milk in your coffee?
[www.washingtonpost.com]
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Who do you trust for wine advice? A friend or relative with whom you’ve shared a few bottles? The Internet? An app that claims to know the perfect wine for you based on whether you take milk in your coffee?
[www.washingtonpost.com]
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WHY WE STILL NEED APPELLATIONS 11 January 2022 19:10 |
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WHY WE STILL NEED APPELLATIONS
James Lawrence in Wine Searcher makes several important points in his argument that appellations have outlived their usefulness. I think there is an important perspective missing from his post, but first it’s worth reviewing why we have appellations.
[foodandwineaesthetics.com]
John
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James Lawrence in Wine Searcher makes several important points in his argument that appellations have outlived their usefulness. I think there is an important perspective missing from his post, but first it’s worth reviewing why we have appellations.
[foodandwineaesthetics.com]
John
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Are There Any Good Non-Alcoholic Wines? 11 January 2022 19:14 |
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Are There Any Good Non-Alcoholic Wines?
The options are expanding for health-conscious consumers looking to cut back on alcohol and calories. But a tasting suggests these alternative beverages aren't quite ready for prime time
[www.winespectator.com]
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The options are expanding for health-conscious consumers looking to cut back on alcohol and calories. But a tasting suggests these alternative beverages aren't quite ready for prime time
[www.winespectator.com]
John
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Sip Me Baby One More Time 11 January 2022 19:19 |
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Sip Me Baby One More Time
Pop icon Britney Spears has her first wine in a decade, and more news.
[www.wine-searcher.com]
John
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Pop icon Britney Spears has her first wine in a decade, and more news.
[www.wine-searcher.com]
John
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3/4 people find the ‘rules of wine’ intimidating, study says 13 January 2022 18:54 |
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3/4 people find the ‘rules of wine’ intimidating, study says
3/4 of people find wine etiquette intimidating, while 67% of respondents believe that there are right and wrong ways to drink wine, a new study has found.
[www.thedrinksbusiness.com]
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3/4 of people find wine etiquette intimidating, while 67% of respondents believe that there are right and wrong ways to drink wine, a new study has found.
[www.thedrinksbusiness.com]
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'Don't drink your own wine' 13 January 2022 18:58 |
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'Don't drink your own wine'
When I crossed the Rubicon from wine drinker to vigneron in 1999, a wonderful thing happened. I was still living close to London at that time and I found that the cornucopia of wine tastings offered in the capital, maybe the most wide-ranging in the world, were suddenly open to me. I was in the business!
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When I crossed the Rubicon from wine drinker to vigneron in 1999, a wonderful thing happened. I was still living close to London at that time and I found that the cornucopia of wine tastings offered in the capital, maybe the most wide-ranging in the world, were suddenly open to me. I was in the business!
[www.jancisrobinson.com]
John
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Wine for a lifetime 13 January 2022 19:01 |
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Wine for a lifetime
How much would you pay to get four bottles of wine each month for the rest of your life?
[www.therealreview.com]
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How much would you pay to get four bottles of wine each month for the rest of your life?
[www.therealreview.com]
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Pick and Mix 13 January 2022 19:03 |
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Pick and Mix
A couple of things have struck me recently. One was Richard Geoffroy, ex-chef de cave of Dom Pérignon, saying casually that he blends everything, even his breakfast orange juice. The other was a passage in Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life (Bodley Head, 2020) about male orchid bees. They ‘collect scents from the world and amass them into a cocktail which they use to court females. They are perfume makers. Mating takes seconds, but gathering and blending their scents takes their whole adult lives.’
[timatkin.com]
John
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A couple of things have struck me recently. One was Richard Geoffroy, ex-chef de cave of Dom Pérignon, saying casually that he blends everything, even his breakfast orange juice. The other was a passage in Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life (Bodley Head, 2020) about male orchid bees. They ‘collect scents from the world and amass them into a cocktail which they use to court females. They are perfume makers. Mating takes seconds, but gathering and blending their scents takes their whole adult lives.’
[timatkin.com]
John
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What Will Be the Next Darling of the Wine World? Here Are Four Varieties to Watch 20 January 2022 19:53 |
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What Will Be the Next Darling of the Wine World? Here Are Four Varieties to Watch
Wine is similar to fashion. Some styles seem to have their moment in the sun, when everyone wants them. And then, inexplicably, they are out of favor. But there’s also the rotation of interest that comes from necessity: Something gets discovered, it’s a great value, more people hear about it, the demand goes up, limited supply forces prices to rise, and suddenly it disappears from circulation. As a result, those at the coal face of the wine world are always looking for the next discovery: wines that excite, but are affordable enough for all to enjoy. And now that cru Beaujolais is more popular than ever — and more expensive as a result — what will be the next darling of the wine world?
[vinepair.com]
John
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Wine is similar to fashion. Some styles seem to have their moment in the sun, when everyone wants them. And then, inexplicably, they are out of favor. But there’s also the rotation of interest that comes from necessity: Something gets discovered, it’s a great value, more people hear about it, the demand goes up, limited supply forces prices to rise, and suddenly it disappears from circulation. As a result, those at the coal face of the wine world are always looking for the next discovery: wines that excite, but are affordable enough for all to enjoy. And now that cru Beaujolais is more popular than ever — and more expensive as a result — what will be the next darling of the wine world?
[vinepair.com]
John
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