Bear with me, I am falling in love again. I have been peripatetically traversing the Ribeira Sacra and Bierzo regions by tasting every Mencia wine I manage to unearth and then blabbering away about the new discoveries here at WineZag. A byproduct of utter submission to my new Mencia tick, I recently met up with Joe Austekewicz, wine director at Yankee Spirits, who just returned from a foray through these very regions alongside Eric Solomon . […]
Take Poll and Weigh In On Future High-End Wine Economy
Take a second, look to the right of your screen, and share your own thoughts on what it takes for you to spend $50+ on high-end wines at retail. With the preliminary findings report from Silicon Valley Bank’s Wine Division (see recent post Wine Sales Stink and the World is Not Flat) underscoring the massive swing in growth rates that has […]
Wine Sales Stink and The World is Not Flat
In Silicon Valley Bank’s recently released Preliminary Findings Report (you won’t get a recap of all the details here, save a few, so click on the link and download the PDF if you are so inclined) which precedes their more exhaustive Spring 2010-2011 Annual State of the Wine Industry Report, the Bank’s opening salvo declared; The […]
Mendoza Monday: Focus on Wines of the Uco Valley
John and family recently returned to the US following a year-long Life-Zag in and around Mendoza (with a separate story Side-Zag to Barcelona). Carrying back a souvenir passion for great Argentine wines and epic grilling sessions, I ended up in a subterranean space in his barely decorated new home in Needham, MA this past Monday to taste through a wide range of wines […]
A Case for Avoiding the Wine Rating Mousetrap
Leave it up to an expert on randomness and a statistician turned winemaker to make an astonishing case that wine ratings are inconsistent and unreliable. The debate on ratings value has been legitimately extended by a couple of primary and secondary research studies presented by Robert Hodgson in the Journal of Wine Economics. Hodgson’s work and conversations with a few high profile wine critics […]
Boston Wine Festival 2010
The 2010 Boston Wine Festival will return again to the Boston Harbor Hotel beginning January 8. Chef Daniel Bruce has an uncanny ability for wine/food pairing and so many of the specific events recently announced are great opportunities to get over to Meritage and experience Chef Bruce at his finest moments. There are lots of […]
Bordeaux Matchmaking
via bordeauxmatchmaking.com Here is an interesting event coming to Boston this Friday night, November 20. A couple of French ladies matching your interests with suitable and affordable french Bordeaux and like minded new friends. A multi city tour with soirees Boredelaise style in Boston, Chicago, NY, and Miami. Certainly an unusual one-of-a-kind format. Check out […]
15 Wines in Simple Format Unlock Path To Wine Apprecation
Hosting less experienced wine drinkers to easily replicated and structured tasting formats appeals to my ritual instincts for making wine more accessible to more people. On the one hand, it’s a refreshing personal break from the usual “club” and a way to strip away the bravado and bias brought to tasting tables by hardened wine aficionados. On the other hand, it is a chance for me […]
Bang for the Buck: Magically Transforming Moulin-a-Vent
I purchased a reasonable amount of mixed 2003 Cru Beaujolais by Georges Duboeuf on release since the vintage appeared to be of historic quality and the best wines could be had in the usual $15-$20 value range. They were enjoyably rich and round with the great depth of fruit that was a signpost to the vintage’s outstanding conditions. These wines were consumed […]
One-Word Buying Strategy and a Must-Have Wine
I look forward to hearing from Matt Kramer in his regular Wine Spectator column. He delivers “regular guy” sensibility with intellectual strength wrapped in an entertaining style. His cut-to-the-chase humility combines with child-like amusement when discovering sources of fairly priced, quality wine that are messengers for their place of origin. I mean wines that unleash vineyard identity, maybe […]
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