Popularity causes a backlash against wine-based tourism

Source: Salem Statesman-Journal

Wineries have become places to sample food, listen to music, socialize with friends and host weddings. Crowds flocking to local wineries during Memorial Day weekend show how well tourism pairs with selling wine. ÂThe setting ...
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Futo Wines, Napa: Current Releases

Source: Vinography

In some ways the stories aren't all that different. A wealthy businessman falls in love with wine at some point, starts visiting Napa, and eventually dreams of owning a vineyard, to make a small amount of wine, just ...
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Les Cailloux du Paradis Cuvée des Etourneaux 2007

Source: The Wine Doctor

Following on from last week's wine fairs in London, the RAW Wine Fair and the Real Wine Fair, surely it's only natural (groan....sorry) that my thoughts and my drinking this weekend should turn to one such wine. And ...
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Comment on What makes a winery important? by John Roberts

Source: Steve Heimoff

I generally agree with your parameters. What is interesting, however, is that all of them require exposure to the larger world. There needs to be a critical mass of people…retailers, distributors, restaurateurs, wine writers, talk ...
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Winemaking Attracts Wealthy Investors, Despite Lack Of Profits

Source: The Huffington Post

If there is one investment that has more to do with the heart than the head, it’s vineyards. It is also one that lends itself to jokes whose punch lines are always about losing money. But that risk has never deterred wealthy people. Nor ...
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Wine: Naked Wines is bringing wine lovers and growers together

Source: The Scotsman

The internet is changing the way we work, think and play. In the wine world, there is a revolution taking place, breaking down traditional barriers in this age-old industry and offering consumers a sense of empowerment and involvement. That ...
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A bounty of 2011 rosé: The Chronicle recommends

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Our annual panel of the pink was a blitz this year: nearly 100 wines from the 2011 vintage, with a full 30 making my final rundown. While rosé can occasionally shine with age - Spain's Lopez de Heredia frequently makes t ...
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After a star moment, rosé wines get serious

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Craig Lee / The Chronicle 2008 The amount of diversity among rosé wines has never been better. Here's dry rosé's trajectory in the past few years: from understudy ("really, drink it any time of year") to brief s ...
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Zoltan Demeter, Tokaj, Hungary: Current Releases

Source: Vinography

It's hard to fathom what it must be like to have the world change beneath your feet overnight. When the Iron Curtain fell in 1989, I was a relatively clueless high schooler for whom the news was elating, but only in a purely theoretical sense. For ...
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