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Tyranny of the 100 Point Wine Scale
Wine rating systems are like the weather — everyone complains about them but no one does anything. Paul Gregutt thinks he knows why. Wine by the Numbers There are many ways to rate or rank different...
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Attack of the Super-Cuvées
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the different strategies winemakers use to sell their products and I find myself coming back again and again to a particularly good column by Andrew Jefford in...
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The Bottle Shock Effect
First Sideways, then Bridget Jones. Now Bottle Shock. How will the new film about the 1976 Paris tastings affect the wine market? The Sideways Effect Sideways (a 2004 film by Alexander Payne) is...
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Decanter’s Wine Power List
Decanter, the self-proclaimed “World’s Best Wine Magazine,” takes its rankings very seriously. Wine rankings, of course, and, in the July 2009 issue, Power rankings. Who are the most powerful people...
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Wine Festivals Uncorked
Jancis Robinson and Wine Economist Mike Veseth at the IPNC. Wine Festivals draw celebrity wine critics, who taste, talk, sign books, pose for photos and lend credibility to the event. Wine festivals...
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Gourmet, Rachael Ray, Chardonnay Connection
I was trying to explain to my students the lasting importance of Robert Mondavi and I suddenly realized that Julia Child was the key. Mondavi tried to do for wine in America what Julia tried to do for...
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Open That Bottle Night 2010
Cam watches Ken nurse the cork out of a bottle of 1960 Taylor Vintage Port. The last Saturday of February is a holiday for wine lovers: Open That Bottle Night (OTBN). It’s the evening when wine...
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Questionable Taste [in Wine]
A review of Reading Between the Wines by Terry Theise (University of California Press, 2010). It’s pretty easy to tell that Terry Theise isn’t an economist. The unofficial motto of economics is...
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Good to Great: Rethinking Chilean Sauvignon Blanc
“Good wine, great value” — that’s been Chile’s wine reputation for many years. And while this isn’t a bad thing by any means, it is a bit of a self-limiting category. “Great wines” might be a more...
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Decanter’s Power List 2013: Globalization and China’s Continuing Rise
He’s still #1 The July issue of Decanter (the self-proclaimed “world’s best wine magazine”) is out and with it comes the Decanter Power List 2013 – a list of the 50 most powerful people in wine this...
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