Last week I posted on the central difficulty the wine industry faces—too many wineries with too few customers. The preferred solution is more customers but
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The Wine Industry’s Problem in a Nutshell
One sentence from this Wine Searcher article by W. Blake Gray about the state of the wine industry clearly articulates the problem: “Current market volume
Bottle, Box, Can: Does Wine Packaging Change Meaning?
Wine has always been associated with ceremony. That is part of the problem. The wine bottle is theatrical site. You cut the capsule, pull the
In Wine, Beauty is in Variation. We Need a Discourse that Captures It
It has long been my view that variation is the lifeblood of wine. Without variation, wine would have no intellectual pull, no mystery, no reason
Making Wine Cool Again?
Wine used to be cool. Now it isn’t. But it was probably never as cool as we thought. Wine has always been a little expensive,
Wine and the Race to the Bottom
One thing we all have to careful about, if we care about what’s true, is that we avoid endorsing a point of view only because
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 