Welcome to the first edition of the Weekly Wine Web Wrap-up (W4..?), where Dude shares some of his favorite wine news bites from the past week (Dude spends too much a goodly amount of time trolling the ‘net for interesting wine tidbits)! Giant Wine Glasses Invade Britain In this article from the International Herald Tribune,…
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In The News: US Wine Consumption on the Rise – *Again*
There’s a great little article by Janice Jones in today’s Sierra Sun about the rising tide of wine consumption in the U.S. According to the article, the U.S. has surpassed Italy and is now on the heels of France to claim the title of the world’s largest consumers of wine by volume (at 2.77 gallons…
In The News: Can Europe Be Saved?
You may not guess it from the sky-high prices of the top Bordeaux chateaus (some fetching in excess of $1000 USD per bottle – and presumably on allocation to those who can afford their own islands), but the European wine market has been in trouble for a few years. With labels that many international consumers…
In the News: NJ Fights for Wine Shipping Rights (Give Us Free! – Part III)
Found a great article on Newsday.com today detailing how the current archaic U.S. state wine shipping laws are negatively impacting the budding wine production business in New Jersey. And if you think NJ is not state with fine wine potential, then you’ve probably not yet tasted the premium reds from Tomasello Winery, which was one…