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8 hours 52 min agoFebruary 6, 2012
17:00
AVA Marketing: All Quality, All Destination, All The Time
What makes American Viticultural Areas, like similarly demarcated wine growing areas in Europe and other parts of the New World, important is that they are among the few items that can legally be placed on the front of a wine...
Categories: Wine & Beverage News, Wine Blogs in English
February 3, 2012
19:48
The Literary Future of Wine (Coming Soon)
Every now and again I like to take account of what wine books will be coming our way in the next few months. It's a way of glimpsing what I'll be thinking about in the near term where wine is...
Categories: Wine & Beverage News, Wine Blogs in English
February 2, 2012
00:05
Wine Is Good For Sex...Now They Tell Me!!
In 1991 "60 Minutes" reported on the "French Paradox", a study that showed that the French, who eat a diet higher in saturated fats, nonetheless had fewer instances of coronary heart disease. The high intake of wine was identified as...
Categories: Wine & Beverage News, Wine Blogs in English
January 31, 2012
20:02
Contemplating Wine and the Big Picture
As a wine publicist, I almost always am dealing in minutia, not Big Picture thinking. It's the nature of the job. What's the best way to deliver this message? How to define this niche? What's the import of this particular...
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02:26
Wine Magazines and the Next Big Thing
An article Sunday in the Boston Herald on the demise of Quarterly Review of Wine after 35 years of publishing its thickish, glossy, well-edited magazine brought to light a couple of issues that fascinate me. First, in the article publisher...
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January 26, 2012
21:27
Witness the Best "Good News" Day for Wine in Months
Among the things I do every morning after the coffee is brewed is sit down and look through the various emails I receive the deliver aggregated wine news. Today, I opened the Wine Business Monthly Daily News Links email and...
Categories: Wine & Beverage News, Wine Blogs in English
January 25, 2012
21:01
Wine Social Media and the End of Average
Today in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman writes about the era of "average" being over: "Being average just won’t earn you what it used to. It can’t when so many more employers have so much more access to so...
Categories: Wine & Beverage News, Wine Blogs in English
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