“Wine Australia CEO Andreas Clark said: “Today’s export figures show that there has been strong and sustainable growth over the past 12 months, delivering the third year of double-digit growth on a year ended September basis. “These figures are the result of a lot of...
“Earlier this month, wine professionals throughout the world were shocked to learn that a leak of confidential information led to invalidated results for a key portion of the Master Sommelier Diploma Examination, regarded by many as the wine industry’s most rigorous...
“When the shouldered wine bottle with a cork in it was introduced in 17th century Iberia it made wine shipping more economical. It did this by changing storage aboard ships from wide bottles standing upright taking up horizontal space to vertical stacks of bottles on...
“We’ve all broken a wine glass now and then—it’s a hazard that comes with the territory when gesturing wildly at dinner, washing dishes, or stacking your stemware in the cupboard. And similarly, it’s not uncommon to have, at one point or another, chipped, cracked, or...
“The LA-based online marketplace for health foods, Thrive Market announced a new addition to their offering last week: clean wines. Priced at under $20 a bottle and promised to be low-sulfite, Thrive Market co-founder Nick Green wants consumers to think about what...
“Today, the Tri-Cities area -- Richland, Kennewick and Pasco -- has reinvented itself as one of the premier wine growing-regions in the United States and a fast-growing travel hub for wine lovers.” 😎😊
Summer (again), in Bordeaux, in October. Time to play. #summer #sailing#october #medoc #portmedoc #bordeaux #france #ocean #ewr
“Mead was born 8,000 years ago, which pre-dates wine and beer by several thousand years, says author Fred Minnick in his book, Mead: The Libations, Legends, and Lore of History’s Oldest Drink (Running Press, 2018). It likely started simply. “Somebody left a pot of...
“As Europe nursed its wounds right after the Second World War’s end in 1945, top Burgundy producer Romanee-Conti made just 600 bottles of dark red nectar before pulling up its vines for replanting. Yesterday (Oct. 13), two of those 600 were sold in separate auction...
Imagine wine regions with beaches this beautiful. Bordeaux! The Médoc. #ocean #wine #ewr #sunset #sunsets #beautiful #bordeaux #medoc#beach #beaches #medocatlantique