The business school students sniffed, swirled and spit the three glasses of Sauternes in front of them. They had come from places like Columbia, Northwestern, Stanford, and Harvard to sit under the tableaux and tapestries at the French Consulate on Fifth Avenue, try wines and answer questions, competing to win the big prize: making it [...]

A parody from the BBC show “Mitchell and Webb.” Merger! Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/GuSC/~3/EVIK8BlNlHU/

A parody from the BBC show “Mitchell and Webb.” Merger! Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/GuSC/~3/EVIK8BlNlHU/

Would you drink wine if it weren’t for the alcohol? Researchers at UCLA are threatening to put this difficult question to wine enthusiasts as they move a “sobriety pill” to clinical trials. Of course, we already have a device for sobering up: the credit card statement. But the researchers are working with extracts of the [...]

Tweet Email Tweet Email One of the wine trends from 2011 is the rise of Champagne with American consumers up over 20% from  2010. Another trend was Moscato coming out of nowhere to become nearly an overnight success. This could be in part due to the charms of the lightly sparkling frizzante made from this [...]

2012 Winemaker Challenge International Wine Competition Winners The results are in from the third annual 2012 Winemaker Challenge International Wine Competition which included more than 800 entries from 12 countries. Nineteen wines earned Best of Class honors in 17 wine categories. Here are all of the super-award-winning wines this year, including Best of Show, and [...]

There was a good story in the Wall Street Journal recently about the rise of Muscat, the sweet white wine made all over the world but closely associated with Italy where it is called Moscato. Last year this grape took off growing nearly 80% in sales from the year before. Nobody in the wine business [...]

2012 Winemaker Challenge International Wine Competition Winners The results are in from the third annual 2012 Winemaker Challenge International Wine Competition which included more than 800 entries from 12 countries. Nineteen wines earned Best of Class honors in 17 wine categories. Here are all of the super-award-winning wines this year, including Best of Show, and [...]

It’s time for the Big Game. Or, actually, the last three Big Games of the NFL season. And no drink says “football” like wine! Actually, although Sunday’s NY-SF game could be framed as something of a sommelier showdown between two of the highest wine-consuming cities, I’m fine to cede the discussion of the day to [...]

2012 Winemaker Challenge International Wine Competition Winners The results are in from the third annual 2012 Winemaker Challenge International Wine Competition which included more than 800 entries from 12 countries. Nineteen wines earned Best of Class honors in 17 wine categories. Here are all of the super-award-winning wines this year, including Best of Show, and [...]