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The Wonderful World Of Wine (WWW)
By: Mark C Lenzi
CSW, CSS, CWAS, FWS, IWS*
11-12-2018
Liquor Industry Week In Review
The Wonderful World Of Wine (WWW)
This Weeks Highlights:
New Products
GUIDE TO HOSTING THANKSGIVING
The Realist’s Guide to Keto Wines
14 things you didn’t know about the history of beer
AND MORE!
QUIZ: DO YOU DRINK LIKE A DEMOCRAT OR A REPUBLICAN?
Find out which political party your drinking preferences most closely align with, according to polling data.
Why don’t all beer bottles have screw caps?
The main reason breweries don’t use twist-offs is because they’re not as reliable a seal.
https://thetakeout.com/why-don-t-all-beer-bottles-have-screw-caps-1830000744
Italy’s wine industry is being tested by the effects of climate change in its vineyards
In a region celebrated for the prosecco and pinot grigio it ships around the world, Italy’s particularly sensitive white wine grapes have become a telltale of even gradual temperature increases — a climate slipping from ideal to nearly ideal.
Why Is Chardonnay Still America’s Best-selling Wine?
It’s the Mayonnaise of Wines: The Blockbuster Beverage You Won’t Admit You Love
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/why-is-chardonnay-still-americas-best-selling-wine.html
If it’s not organic, it’s not natural wine
Adding sulphur (Sulphur dioxide, SO2) to wine is standard practice in winemaking. Its main function is to inhibit or kill unwanted yeasts and bacteria, and to protect wine from oxidation.
https://citymag.indaily.com.au/habits/plate-and-cup/not-organic-not-natural-wine/
Carménère, the unexpected gift from Chile
This distinctive grape emerged on the scene almost by stealth
How the subscription economy will impact wine
So how does the wine industry fit into the subscription economy?
https://www.meininger.de/en/wine-business-international/how-subscription-economy-will-impact-wine
How to source wine from my birth year
How would I go about sourcing wine from my birth year,
https://community.thewinesociety.com/t/how-to-source-wine-from-my-birth-year/4017
New York Wineries Sued over Website Accessibility for Visually Impaired
Lawsuits accuse wineries like Long Island’s Wölffer Estate of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act
https://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/New-York-Wineries-Sued-over-Website-Accessibility
The Winery that Cried Wolf on Cork
A Napa producer started a lawsuit over corks but then went strangely quiet.
https://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2018/10/the-winery-that-cried-wolf-on-cork
California brandy is better than ever.
Will consumers notice?
Why millennials prefer cannabis to booze:
‘Zero enjoyment out of drinking’ (and pot’s cheaper, too)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/millennials-appear-to-like-cannabis-more-than-booze-2018-09-26
Budweiser and Bud Light’s downward spirals continues as millennials ditch beer
Budweiser and Bud Light’s battle to win over Americans continues.
https://www.businessinsider.com/budweiser-bud-lights-downward-spiral-continues-2018-10
Pepper your wine with rotundone: yes, but until when?
This oxygenated sesquiterpene still relatively little studied across the world, is responsible for pepper aroma in grapes and wine
https://www.ciencia-e-vinho.com/2018/10/28/pepper-your-wine-with-rotundone-yes-but-until-when/
Got a thing for spirits? What about geography?
Put your combined skills to the test by guessing the origins of each of these renowned spirits brands.
The Inevitable Rise of Cult Napa Wines
WHAT IS A “CULT” WINE?
11 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CIGAR CITY BREWING
Cigar City Brewing launched in Tampa, Fla., in 2009 and swiftly became a cult favorite
14 things you didn’t know about the history of beer
You probably don’t think about it every time you crack open a cold one, but beer is one of the oldest bedrocks of human civilization, brewed all over the world for longer than recorded history.
The Trouble with Cellaring Wine
Drinking a well-aged vintage is a great joy. But when you cellar away the perfect wine, does the right moment to open it ever really come?
https://www.winemag.com/2018/10/29/trouble-with-cellaring-wine/
How to Find Cheap White Wine That Doesn’t Suck
Shopping at a smaller store means that the cheaper options are more curated—if a store has limited space, they want to make sure they offer quality options at a variety of prices.
https://skillet.lifehacker.com/how-to-find-cheap-white-wine-that-doesnt-suck-1830029232
13 Gifts Any Wine Lover Will Appreciate
We all have at least one friend or family member with a serious love of wine.
https://www.housebeautiful.com/shopping/g24415972/wine-lover-gifts/
TOP 100 CELLAR SELECTIONS OF 2018
Each year, of the roughly 23,000 wines reviewed, only a portion (close to 4%) are designated Cellar Selections
https://www.winemag.com/toplists/top-100-cellar-selections-2018/
Wineries Seek Exclusive Appellations
Certain wineries are taking the plunge to create their own appellations exclusive only to them
https://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2018/10/wineries-seek-exclusive-appellations
There’s a Wine Theme Park in France
This 80 million euro conglomerate attracts travelers from all over the world who want to sample 800 varieties of wine from 70 different countries
Napa Vineyard Worker Killed By Grape-Harvesting Machine
A Napa vineyard worker was killed in an accident involving a grape harvesting machine
‘UNCRUSHABLE’ IS A MOVIE THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN MADE
apturing the most intimate moments of despair and heroism during the 2017 wildfires, celebrity chef Tyler Florence’s ‘Uncrushable’ looks unflinchingly at a cross-section of Sonoma and Napa disaster survivors bonded by loss.
https://www.sonomamag.com/biteclub/uncrushable-is-a-movie-that-should-never-have-been-made/
Wineries to Watch 2018
Here are some of the new producers we discovered in our tastings in 2018, as well as a few established growers who surprised us with their latest releases. Watch for these 14 names in the year ahead.
https://www.wineandspiritsmagazine.com/news/entry/wineries-to-watch-2018
Making Big Data Work for Wine
The vast majority of wine consumers have low or minimal engagement, but that engagement grows as they become more enthusiastic about wine.
https://www.wineindustryadvisor.com/2018/10/30/making-big-data-work-for-wine
Uncovering Blind Spots to Differentiate Your Brand
How can business owners use balanced passion and confidence to capitalize on opportunities and address the needs their brand requires for success?
https://www.wineindustryadvisor.com/2018/10/30/uncovering-blind-spots-differentiate-brand
Erasing Montepulciano confusion
If you want to argue that the world of fine wine is never confusing, you should probably avert your eyes from Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and Montepulciano d’Abruzzo.
http://wineloverspage.com/2018/10/montepulciano-confusion/
BREWERS ASSOCIATION MAY CHANGE ITS DEFINITION OF CRAFT BEER
American trade group the Brewers Association has informed its members of proposed changes to its official definition of ‘craft beer’ as it considers dropping one of its three current requirements.
Prosecco Pie Exists, Thanksgiving Is Saved
Have you ever found yourself eating dessert and thinking, “This is delicious, but it lacks sparkling wine?” Well, you are in luck.
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/prosecco-pie-exists
The Beer Renaissance Gets A Documentary
A new documentary from director Douglas Triola, Brewmaster, attempts to capture this moment in American beer culture.
Do women and men have measurably different relationships with wine?
The answer: yes, but not as much as you might think
https://www.wineintelligence.com/equal-sometimes-different/
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEER CHEESE, INCLUDING HOW TO MAKE IT
Basically, beer cheese can be whatever you want it to be, is almost guaranteed to be delicious, and it only takes 10 to 15 minutes to make
https://vinepair.com/articles/beer-cheese-best-recipe/
100% ALUMINIUM RESEALABLE DRINKS CAN DEVELOPED
A Texas-based tech firm has launched a resealable drinks can called SipNShut in response to consumer demand, which it hopes will disrupt the canned drinks market.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2018/11/resealable-drinks-can-developed/
The Realist’s Guide to Keto Wines
What makes a great keto wine?
A Wine And Food Lover’s Guide To Galicia, Spain
The northwest corner of Spain inundates the senses with splendor.
Imagine no more wine headaches
Can gadgets help?
Francis Ford Coppola Launches Cannabis Product
The Grower’s Series by Francis Ford Coppola is a cannabis lifestyle brand
https://www.winebusiness.com/news/?go=getArticle&dataid=205390
Scientific research reveals why wine ratings and recommendations fail so often
Everyone has a different sense of smell. Taste is mostly determined by smell.
http://wineindustryinsight.com/?p=95497
Inventor Develops an Alcohol Bottle and Bong
“I drink and smoke and thought it would be a good idea to combine the two together,” said an inventor from Round Rock, Texas
What the people who do wine lists still don’t understand about restaurant wine pricing
Not enough people who put together wine lists understand that pricing is more important than anything else.
Who is spending the most on alcohol? Biggest drinkers appear to be in western US
People in the United States are drinking more, and some are spending a bigger share of their income on alcohol.
Start-up to launch ‘world’s first’ cannabis-infused gin
Australian start-up The Cannabis Company is set to release what it claims is the world’s first gin distilled using cannabis oils.
https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2018/11/start-up-to-launch-worlds-first-cannabis-infused-gin/
BOOMING CHINESE WINE MARKET SPAWNS BULK SPECIALISTS
China’s bullish demand for wine has spawned a growing industry of bulk wine business that specialise in creating commercial wines specially tailored for the Chinese market.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2018/11/booming-chinese-wine-market-spawns-bulk-specialists/
Wine Fest Drone Show Ends in Wine Fest Drones Crashing Out of Sky
Huge LED formations of fanciful wine bottles and Champagne flutes lighting up the sky in a drone show over Victoria Harbor at last week’s Hong Kong Wine and Dine Festival. But the show, and 46 drones, came to an abrupt end when said drones unexpectedly made a plummet-out-of-the-sky formation into the water. Authorities are now investigating what went wrong.
https://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/Wine-Fest-Drone-Show-Crash-Hong-Kong-Unfiltered
Farmer’s wine guide — the basics and beyond
Where does one start on their journey to becoming a wine pro?
https://www.agdaily.com/crops/farmers-wine-guide-basics-beyond/
GUIDE TO HOSTING THANKSGIVING
We’re here to help guide you from cocktail hour to dessert, including innovative side dishes, wine pairing tips and tasty options for your main course.
https://www.winemag.com/thanksgiving-hosting-guide/
How Moldova is fast putting itself on the world wine map
Moldova has more vines per capita than anywhere else in the world – over 7% of arable land and 4% of total land – with wine accounting for anything up to one quarter of foreign currency earnings; historically, Russia has accounted for some 95% of wine exports.
http://www.the-buyer.net/insight/moldova-world-wine-map/
62% of Americans spend $8 to $15 for a bottle of wine (Only 6% for $21+)
What do wine drinkers want?
Wine drinkers want mostly simple things. Why is that too much to ask?
https://www.winecurmudgeon.com/what-do-wine-drinkers-want/
Prosecco Ponderings — Paying More For Less
Now wait…wasn’t there a Prosecco shortage?
https://spitbucket.net/2018/11/01/prosecco-ponderings-paying-more-for-less/
Wine Appreciation: connoisseurship or snobbery?
We don’t have to venture far these days to realize that all is not well in the world of wine criticism.
http://www.worldoffinewine.com/news/wine-appreciation-connoisseurship-or-snobbery-6830173
Keys to success selling wine in the US -What’s IN and what’s OUT?
Wine knowledge is important but it’s nowhere near enough. Put down the wine glass, pick up a calculator. This is a BUSINESS!
NEW VIEW ON ROMAN TEXT REWRITES WINE-MAKING HISTORY
How exactly did agricultural innovations spread in the ancient world?
https://www.futurity.org/ancient-romans-food-wine-technology-1902032/
Napa County formulating new rules for winery rule-breakers
A winery might be entitled to make a maximum of 20,000 gallons annually of wine and be caught making 30,000 gallons. It would then have to stick with 20,000 gallons for a year before the county would consider a higher number.
What Makes a Wine Expensive?
There’s more to what makes a wine expensive than just the materials that made the wine. Sure, a $100 wine is much more expensive to make than a $10 wine. But is there such a big gap between a $100 wine and a $100,000 wine? What makes the world’s most expensive wines so expensive?
https://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2018/11/what-makes-a-wine-expensive
Jerry Bell Jr. on Making Films About Winemakers of Color
Filmmaker Jerry Bell Jr. discusses learning about wine and the inspiration behind his film “Red, White & Black: An Oregon Wine Story.”
https://www.winemag.com/2018/11/02/jerry-bell-jr-making-films-about-black-winemakers/
Why isn’t wine bottled in recycled glass?
While some wine bottles are indeed made from recycled glass, it’s true that many are not, and the production of a new glass bottle is responsible for a large part of a bottle of wine’s carbon footprint. The good news is that glass is recyclable, and in the Netherlands, more than 90 percent of glass containers end up being recycled. That’s far more than here in the U.S., where various agencies report that only about a quarter to a third of our glass containers are recycled. America needs to do a better job of going Dutch!
One of the reasons that wine bottles in particular are sometimes not recycled is because they’re often dyed green or brown, and they need to be sorted by color, if not by the consumer then by the recycling facility. Additionally, glass is heavy, and that makes transporting it to sometimes-far-away recycling facilities expensive if not cost-prohibitive.
After being collected, glass bottles are crushed and ground into what’s called “cullet,” and this ground glass is sold back to glass manufacturers to be melted into new products, including new bottles. “New” glass can contain as much as 70 percent cullet.
For more insight, I spoke to Sarah Bar, project manager at Gallo Glass Company (founded in 1958 by vintners Ernest and Julio Gallo). Gallo Glass is the largest consumer of recycled glass in California, purchasing more than 30 percent of all the glass recycled in the state, and Bar says that on average, the bottles for E.&J. Gallo’s wines are made from about 50 percent recycled glass. “Any time I can talk about recycling, I’m a happy camper,” she said.
She explained that glass manufacturers actually prefer to use recycled glass. Cullet not only requires less energy to melt, but melting it also generates fewer emissions. “Once you melt that recycled bottle for the first time, we no longer release the emissions from raw materials,” Bar explained. “So the more we use recycled bottles, the better the impact on the environment.”
—Dr. Vinny
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