First boxed wine, then screwcaps, now this. Baltimore Sun reports that Maryland wineries and restaurants are thinking plastic bottles might be the way to go instead of big, clunky, impossible to efficiently ship glass. Quoth the article: “The wine doesn’t know what package it is in,” said W. R. Tish, a wine educator who writes [...]
Creative Commons licensed image from Flickr user bubble dumpster Even more baffling than the wine industries’ supposed struggle with using social media is their apparent struggle with marketing to the Millennial generation. All sorts of studies and blogs are dedicated to this goal: helping wineries market to people in their twenties. I must be missing [...]
Ate at Woodberry Kitchen in Clipper Mill the other night. I wasn’t so impressed with Woodberry Kitchen the first time I went there, but on this night it was fantastic. They really knocked it out of the park on every level. Pretzel-sausage-cheese-thing: awesome. Wood fired chicken: superb. Braised short ribs: heavenly. Service: outstanding. Sixty dollar [...]
Creative Commons licensed image from Flickr user kiki99 Dr. Vino led a charge last week in posting an email exchange pointing out that an employee of The Wine Advocate, the uber-publication run by uber-critic Robert Parker, may have gotten a little hook-up on a recent tasting trip. In a recent thread, Jay Miller was shown [...]
On almost every American wine map, there are four states: California, Oregon, Washington, and New York. There is constant rumbling that Virginia is poised to breakthrough and make it five states on the map, but the rumbling has yet to to produce anything. To see how one would vault into the elite club, it’s best [...]
Creative Commons licensed image from Flickr user goopymart I posted this on OWC but it fell on deaf ears. Maybe I didn’t mention Twitter enough. Anyway, I know of some smarty-pants people that read this blog so I thought I’d throw out a 100-point-toss-up… We have cellar management, community tasting notes, price comparisons, scores, professional [...]
Pinot Law went into a great in-depth post about where underage kids get their alcohol. I ramble on and blowhard about things from time to time, but it’s nice to see people actually doing the legwork and producing actual numbers. Regarding the data, Pinot Law asserts: Although the chart identifies the numerous ways in which [...]
Grades are getting better. Are our nation’s school kids getting smarter? Maybe. Are grades getting higher? No doubt. Kids are coming out of high school with a 4.3 GPA, a meaningless number when paired up with the GPA of a kid coming out of a school with unweighted classes. The number means nothing out of [...]
Gazette.net reports that the 2006 Blank Ankle Crumbling Rock, a Governor’s Cup winner, is selling like hotcakes. “We have probably sold 150 cases. It’s been going like crazy,” O’Herron said recently. Clearly my snarky jabs at the wine prices at Black Ankle aren’t working. Forty dollars a bottle and the wine is flying out the [...]
Amid the news of bank seizures, declining real-estate, and congressional ordered bailouts, fine wine prices are on an absolute tear. Everyone is buying. Asians are buying. Russians are buying. All these new buyers are competing with the old buyers, because while prices are rising the old buyers are still buying. Buy buy buy. Prices of [...]
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