The New Yorker has a fantastic report on the so-called Rodenstock wines particularly the 1787 Lafite that purports to have belonged to Thomas Jefferson. It’s 10 pages long but a great read.
Yesterday I commented that it was great to see winegrowers having the courage to try untried and different grape varieties. What I feel I should have added to that was that it is also great to see vineyards having the courage to persisting with varieties that may have lost their lustre in the publics mind [...]
Next month on the 1st of September, the Vuelta Espana begins. For those scratching there heads wondering what the Vuelta Espana is? It’s the Spanish equivalent tour de France. You are probably now wondering what this has to do with wine if you weren’t already. The answer is “not really a lot”, except for duration [...]
Another cellar door is open in the Matakana area, this time Omaha Bay Vineyard. I saw a post by Sue from at Wine of the Week and thought I would stop in and have a look as I am currently spending so much time in the area. Check their website for directions and opening times. [...]
I just noticed that I’ve hit 200 posts. Fantastic! Thank you for all the great feed back and comments.
Australia has managed to push past the $3 billion mark for the 12 months tho the end of July. A report in The Australian about this carries this rather as staggering statement. The domestic surplus, created by a rash of vine-planting in the late 1990s, was enough to pour a glass for every man, woman [...]
Starting your own vineyard is an expensive, difficult and time consuming. I urge all my clients that are interested doing this to fully research their potential market before they commit themselves. Don’t worry about your site or the variety you want to plant but who is your target market and why they are going to [...]
This is a…different marketing approach to labelling. What interested me here was the market potential of such labelling. Obviously you won’t be competing with Chateau Mouton Rothschild but how much money is there in the offensive novelty category? Anecdotal evidence suggests a fare bit, one retailer telling me that this particular wine was out selling [...]
Why? Environmental reasons apparently. Why not bulk ship to the to the UK and bottle there? The reason probably has a lot more to do with a perceived difference for the consumer. It’s far easier for the consumer to identify the supposedly “environmentally friendly†wine when it is packaged in a novel manor. Link
Reported yesterday in the Telegraph the Siam winery producing grapes and making wine in Thailand. They are using some very novel methods to combat the heat and humidity.