Wine Forgery Goes Beyond the Bottle
What if I told you that forgery in the wine world was endemic; that it occurred before our very eyes, almost daily; that it regularly took i...Read More
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Showing posts with label Opinion. Show all posts
Saving Your Wine Cellar from the Plebs
Isn't it astonishing to see the lengths rich people go to to keep their wine away from the masses? I remember reports of a tasting semi...Read More
Sherry is Dying, Pass the Port
Extinction is such a final word that it seems strange to use in terms of an entire category of wine, but along with gorillas, the Sumatran e...Read More
The LaLa World of One-Percenter Wine
Through an indeterminate series of emails, which included the editor pointing out that nothing was guaranteed to come of it, I boarded a pri...Read More
Champagne 2019: A Response
At Wine-Searcher we value our readers' opinions and we are happy to give them the chance to offer a different perspective on the news. ...Read More
Brexit Fears Grow for UK Wine Trade
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty," observed Winston Chu...Read More
Amazon is Not Bigger Than the Law
At Wine-Searcher, we support the delivery of wine and spirits. Of course we do: helping people find wine to order online is what we do. When...Read More
Canned Wine: The Great White Hype
It's the next big thing, the wine disruptor and the favorite beverage of the famously hard-to-please Millennial market, but is canned wi...Read More
Fighting Back Against Wine's Eco Vandals
Usually we are powerless. But in the wake of one of the largest environmental fines ever levied on a US winery, I have a suggestion for figh...Read More
New Zealand Wine Reaches the Top Table
I vividly remember the buzz surrounding Farr Vintners' original Kumeu River vs Burgundy tasting in 2015. I didn't know Steven Browe...Read More
Defending Dogma in Natural Wine
Of all the people to induce a choir of furies in my head, I never thought it would be James Molesworth. The jazz-loving Wine Spectator crit...Read More
Crushing Some Myths of Wine Tasting
Many years ago, when I visited London with, sadly, much greater regularity than I do now, we used to stay with a friend of my partner's....Read More
The Tricky Task of Defining "Winey"
[unable to retrieve full-text content] It's a phrase anyone who reads wine reviews will recognize, but what exactly is "wine-iness...Read More
Making the Case for Copper Sulfate
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Wine retailer Ian Simpson says copper sulfate is not the villain it is being made out to be.Read More
Robert Parker: Farewell to the Emperor
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Wine's most influential writer of the past 40 years has retired. W. Blake Gray pays tribute to ...Read More
Bordeaux and Burgundy Head for Dinosaur Status
"Claret is wine; it is the wine." "Let there be no doubt about it: Burgundy at its best overtops Claret at its best." ...Read More
Looming Trade War Bodes Ill for Wine
To defend the US company that makes two airplanes that recently crashed and killed everyone on board, the US government proposes to make Fre...Read More
Brexit's High Costs for UK Wine Trade
I think my father-in-law – a man of wit, poetry and uncommon clarity of thinking – said it best: "We're fooked James. It's an a...Read More
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