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How I Fell Back In Love With Food-And-Wine Pairing (And Why The “Drink Whatever You Want” Mantra Might Be Wrong)
I fell back in love with food-and-wine pairing when I helped a friend (the irrepressible Tony “The Wine Chef” Lawrence) with an outdoor wine / cooking demo sponsored by the Pennsylvania regional chapter of the American Wine Society about two weeks ago (around the same…
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Wake Up, Wine People: Boomers Won’t Be Buying Your Wine Forever
Although the conclusion implied in the title of today’s post probably seems obvious to many (i.e., a company/brand has to eventually court younger customers because older customers will not be able to buy their products forever), it’s worth providing some background (and a pertinent example),…
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Is It Time For Wine To Get The Like Button?
We wine geeks review wines in all manner of differing ways. There’s nearly as much variety in those review systems as there are in wine styles. Points. Stars. In my case, grades and badges. And we’re social about it, too – CellarTracker.com is pretty much…
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The PLCB’s Version Of “Innovation” (or “God Help Me, I’m A Wine Lover Living In PA!”)
The recent news of perpetually-hip grocery company Wegman’s pulling out of the troubled PA Liquor Control Board’s wine kiosk program has caused a bit of a stir in the wine world, if we take “stir” to mean “mostly sardonic snickering, followed by a glassy-eyed stare…
