Over the past year or two I’ve noticed something troubling about supermarket wine shelves—Italian wines have virtually disappeared. You might find a bottom shelf Chianti,
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Can Good Wine Become a Populist Beverage?
The conversation W. Blake Gray had with Bonny Doon’s head winemaker Randall Grahm was depressing: “Nobody knows anything about what sells wine,” Grahm says. “I
Are Wine Marketers Contributing to Climate Change?
Master of Wine and all-around intellectual John Atkinson has a thoughtful and forceful challenge to the wine industry’s contribution to climate change. His premises are
The Meaning of Wine Scores
Wine statistics guru David Morrison wades into the issue of wine scores. Despite their alleged usefulness as a marketing tool, he finds them fundamentally misleading
For Serious Wine Lovers Happy Talk about Tariffs is Thin Gruel
The news about the Trump “administration’s” 100% tariff hikes on EU wine is grim indeed and the impact on importers and retailers has been widely
Why Supermarket Wine is Boring
Three reasons stand out: 1. Most people want to purchase wines for under $10. The cost of production for a $10 bottle of wine is
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 