After assessing the accuracy of some prominent headlines regarding Covid 19 and the wine industry, wine data guru David Morrison digs into the findings of
Category: Wine Culture
The Challenge of Hybrid Grape Varietals
This article by Jamie Goode on the need for the wine community to embrace hybrid grape varietals raises an important set of issues. Most of
More Wine Populist Nonsense
This argument, this time from W. Blake Gray, gets really tiresome, but there seems to be no end to the joy wine writers get from
A New Classification System for Wine?
In the U.S. we have no wine classification system that is really informative. Our appellation rules ensure the origin of the grapes to a degree
Wine Drinkers are from Venus; Wine Tasters are from Mars
Many discussions about wine that appear in popular writing or in casual conversations fail to distinguish the practice of wine tasting from the activity of
Good News Monday
While much of the news about the coronavirus still looks grim, this post by Rob McMillan of Silicon Valley Bank appeared in my newsfeed last
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 