This is a guest post from Daniel Primack. I met him for dinner recently, but before we ate we popped into one of his favourite shops, Rivet and Hide. Here…
How not to lose your love for wine
Every now and then I meet someone in the wine trade who has lost their love for wine. [Maybe they never had it, but of all the trades to get…
Thinking aloud about wine marketing
I’m in an airport. It’s a place where you are bombarded by marketing messages. It’s made me think about wine marketing. Spirit producers tend to do a lot more marketing…
Two lovely own-label French wines from Sainsbury’s
Credit where credit is due. I wouldn’t usually find myself recommending you to hot-foot it to your local supermarket to buy wine, but here are two good own label wines…
Marlborough: boom, bust, and boom again
Boom and bust. Then boom again. That has been the recent story of Marlborough. The commercial success of Marlborough Sauvignon led to a massive increase in plantings throughout the late…
My wine predictions for 2014
Predicting the future is a mug’s game, but it’s fun, and I’m a bit of a mug. So here goes – my wine predictions for 2014. The commoditization of wine…
My take on the global wine shortage story
Wine is in the news again. Apparently there is soon going to be a global shortage. More people are drinking wine while vineyard area is decreasing. At the moment, consumption…
Where does the world’s best cheap wine come from?
Where does the world’s best cheap red wine come from? Spain. It’s official. I’m on a plane at the moment, sitting in the back, and expecting bad wine. But the…
Some predictions for the wine world in 2013
A startlingly unoriginal post. I’m afraid. Begin the new year with some predictions. The problem is that I’m rubbish at predicting the future. And most of these lists tend to reflect…