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The World Has Too Much Wine and I Can Prove It
August 25th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
Actress Teri Hatcher pours wine into her bath to keep her skin soft. Here’s a video of some guy bathing in Bonardo and demonstrating the pitfalls of bathroom acoustics. The Ritz-Carlton in Santiago, Chile, will set you up with a Carmenere bath. And the entrepreneurial Japanese have turned wine baths into a theme park attraction.
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After Spending Six Months and About a Billion Dollars on Branding Consultants, This
July 21st, 2010 by Tom Johnson
Fosters Group Ltd. has announced the new name of its wine division, which is being spun off as a separate corporate entity: Treasury Wine Group. I think it really captures the poetry of the wine business, don’t you?
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“They Balance Themselves”
June 22nd, 2010 by Tom Johnson
Reign of Terroir interviews Parducci’s Tim Thornhill, who is the MacGuyver of sustainable grape farming. Think about the two main processes in this world with respect to water. The giant water filters are the Everglades of the world. The oxygenators are all the streams and rocky creeks. That’s where the trout live because that is [...]
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Biodynamic Wine Tasting: What If They’re Right?
May 20th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
Fred over at NorCalWine notes the shaky science behind the idea that biodynamic principles apply not just to growing wine but to tasting it as well. That is, the belief that there are certain days in the lunar cycle when wine tastes better. Proponents of biodynamic tasting cite their own experience as evidence, and that is [...]
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What’s More Intense Than a Capitol Hill Stare-Down Over Shipping Regulations?
April 20th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
A wild-west shootout over winery accounting practices. Ooooo, my nerd nerves are a-tingling! (I have to put some extra text down here to fill the space next to the picture. If I don’t, Word Press goes nuts and inserts about 25 inches of white before the next post, which makes it seem, to casual visitors, [...]
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In Which I Propose That We, as a Community of Wine Bloggers, Forgo a Joke That Just About All of Us Have Made at One Time or Another
March 29th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
Spit or swallow? It’s the go-to double entendre of winebloggers here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. The commentors get into it here. I think we should ban spit/swallow humor voluntarily, before the government steps in. I know it’s going to be hard to come up with another joke, but [...]
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Little Old Winemaker: Gallo From the Air
March 26th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
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Ten Wine-Related Facebook Groups You Just Know Someone is Going to Start
March 25th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
Jancis Robinson gets me all frizzante inside I’d chug the spit bucket before I’d drink Chardonnay I bet malolactic fermentation can get 1 million fans before any other wine-making process (In your face, carbonic maceration!) People with iPhones who are stuck in traffic on Highway 29 and don’t have the sense to cut over to [...]
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Sweet
March 17th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
A whole blog about Sauternes.
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When Conventional Wisdom Goes Wrong
March 15th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
U.S. wine exports were down 9.5% in value last year, according to The Wine Institute, but almost 15% by volume. Does that mean that more expensive wines did better than less expensive wines? Is this not the opposite of what everyone believes is happening in the world wine market? Last year, the U.S. exported 418 [...]
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