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Brexit will give UK wine a hangover
Tumult (anarchy?) is the current state of the main political parties in Britain after the Brexit referendum. Will the vote to exit the EU leave the British wine trade in any better shape than the...
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Veni, vidi, Vietti – Vietti winery sold to Americans
Vietti, the Barolo winery founded in 1893 and known for its single-vineyard wines, has been sold to the American Kyle J. Krause. According to Wine Spectator, the sale includes the winery in Barolo’s...
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Charles Banks, owner of wineries, indicted on fraud
Charles Banks, a former owner of Screaming Eagle whose current wine and hospitality holdings have been pegged at $200 million, was indicted in federal court today on two counts of fraud. Banks, 48, is...
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Sour Grapes, a wine fraud documentary coming to Netflix
Sour Grapes, a new documentary about wine fraud, is being released on Netflix next month. The movie centers on the case of convicted wine counterfeiter Rudy Kurniawan. In fact, the film’s two...
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Daniel Johnnes, Burgundy specialist, joins Grand Cru
Daniel Johnnes may be the closest thing the American wine world has to Burgundy royalty. Yesterday he announced that he has joined Grand Cru Selections, an importer and wholesaler based in New York...
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Coravin uncorks $22 million in funding
Coravin, the company formerly known as Wine Mosquito, has raised another $22 million in private equity funding. That brings the total equity sold to $40 million (plus another $3 million in debt). The...
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Sour Grapes – wine fraud movie now on Netflix
Sour Grapes recently went live on Netflix. Has Netflix recommended it to you yet? If not, you’re clearly not watching the right shows! After speaking with one of the directors and seeing the trailer,...
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Clos Rougeard sold to billionaire
“Winery X, in family for generations, sold to billionaire” is a headline that would normally barely raise an eyebrow. But the winery in today’s news is Clos Rougeard from the Loire. Located in Saumur,...
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Wine on the wing: Emirates wine program
Apparently there’s a real rivalry among airlines for first class wine service–although you’d never guess it in the back of the bus where the wine selections are generally bad enough to drive a wine to...
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Wine import tax: Make American Wine Great Again?
Economic policy has about as much clarity as a tank of Puligny after batonnage right now. There’s some reasonable certainty about various reforms (ahem, tax cuts) but one area that is shrouded in...
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Wine class at Schoolhouse
How about some wine classes to shake off the winter blues (wait, what winter? It’s 70 degrees!)? I’ve been doing a series of wine classes at Schoolhouse at Cannondale, a new American restaurant in...
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Vote Emmanuel Macron! A blind tasting
The French presidential election is heating up. Polls show Emmanuel Macron defeating Marine Le Pen in the decisive second round on May 7 by 62-38 (yes, polls have been deceiving ahead of recent...
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Behold the drip-free wine bottle!
Wine drip stains on white tablecloths have a new nemesis and his name is Daniel Perlman. The biophysicist at Brandeis University discovered that all it took to eliminate the bane of (red) wine pourers...
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Warriors toast NBA title with actual champagne!
The Golden State Warriors won their second NBA title in three seasons last night. As a hoops fan, the most impressive stat for me was 147 assists on 216 made baskets–teamwork! But as a wine geek, we...
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Hail strikes Burgundy and Beaujolais — again
Climate change is a bitch. Severe weather events have roiled wine growing areas with depressing regularity in recent years. Burgundy seems to be on the forefront of this plagued by floods, hail...
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Fires savage Napa and Sonoma
On Sunday night, a fire got out of control somewhere north of the Bay. Seasonally dry conditions had left the area like a tinderbox. So when whipping winds of up to 70 mph hit the initial flames, they...
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Helping the wildfire recovery
The wine country fires caused a lot of damage, that we know. But as the fires come under control and some residents return to their greatly altered lives after mandatory evacuations, we are starting...
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Reboule du Rhone
About five years ago, Dustin Wilson became the wine director at Eleven Madison Park and Thomas Pastuszak became the wine director at NoMad. At a similar point in their careers at restaurants in the...
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China targets US wine in tariff showdown
American wine has just gotten a dubious distinction: it features on a list of 128 items that may be subject to new Chinese tariffs. (spelling tip: tariffs ends in “FFS”!) Saber rattling in trade...
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Trump – Macron state dinner wines
Last night’s state dinner in honor of French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte was the first of Donald Trump’s term. Would the current occupant of the White House shatter wine protocols...
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