The big thing with professional content generation: how to make it pay. Since the advent of the internet, and the rise of the Google/Facebook duopoly, advertising money has been sucked…
The wine filter bubble
We’ve just had an election in the UK. It was quite an important one, and the result surprised many of us. The Conservative Party, who’ve been in power for a…
Wine should never be cheap
I recently made a post on Twitter: What I have learned from my travels: wine should never be cheap Although it has picked up more than 130 likes, it also…
Appellations don’t need tasting panels
There’s an issue in the wine world that I think needs discussion, and it’s tasting panels in appellations. Throughout the wine world, appellation laws exist. There are various reasons for…
Working for free
Lots of chat at the moment, both in the wine world and also the wider world, about working for free. We live in the intern culture. We get offered gigs…
Why wine is a bit like cricket, and both are fabulous
For the last two weeks I have been judging wine at the Oval. It’s one of the most famous cricket grounds in the world, and was home to the first…
Are wine recommendations important?
Every now and then I get a request from a student of wine to answer some questions for a dissertation of some kind. I try my best to answer, but…
Mining the seam
The world is changing fast. Nothing is forever: we know that. But the pace of change seems to increase every decade. Sometimes it seems that change is so rapid that…
Beware the wine consumer champions
There is a new breed of consumer champion loose in the world of wine. They are a band of vocal marketers, commentators and ‘thought leaders’ who are upset and outraged…