Featured Blog Postings for Saturday, November 21st
Each day our editors monitor 50 wine industry blogs and select the most relevant, recent postings.
A summary of each posting with a link to the blog is listed below.
Compli: Beverage Industry Compliance Examining Fee Hikes in Maryland, Illinois and ConnecticutOctober 28thIn recent months several states have increased their rates for alcoholic beverage permits, liquor taxes, and brand registrations.
Dr. Vino's wine blog Rocks for shocks: geologists don'tOctober 28thMany geologists object to two things: misusing “minerality” and being misquoted. Site reader and distributor Damien Casten
sent in an AP story
(with no byline) yesterday entitled “Geologists debunk soil impact on wine at Ore. talk.”
Palate Press Wines in the Halloween SpiritOctober 28thHow does wine connect to Halloween? Well, the annual crop of cutesy Hallo-wine labels is one way. But I think wine lovers should take this opportunity to confront a common demon: French wine.
PG BLOG riesling indeed does ruleOctober 28thNicolas Quillé, winemaker and general manager for Pacific Rim, the (almost) all riesling project headquartered in the Columbia valley, posted up some new stats from Nielsen on his Facebook page.
Steve Heimoff Tasting the 2006 St. Helena CabsOctober 28thI’ve spent years trying to “figure out” St. Helena. After last year’s tasting, I remarked, in my blog, that the St. Helena producers always seem to have a little of that Rodney Dangerfield “I don’t get no respect” feeling, Oakville and Rutherford being better known.
Grape Radio The Napa Road ShowOctober 28thoin us as we visit with Mary Rocca and Eric Grigsby of Rocca Family Winery, as well as their winemaker, Paul Colantuoni. We’ll also visit with John Komes and Sean Garvey to see what’s happening at Flora Springs, and then talk to Todd Graff from Frank Family Winery.
Wine & Spirits Daily TTB Still Requires Brunello Certification Despite Italy's ClaimsOctober 28thDespite reports to the contrary, TTB’s director of public and media affairs Art Resnick confirmed to WSD that they have not in fact put an end to their current certification process with the Italian government regarding Brunello di Montalcino wines.
1 Wine Dude Take The Power Back: Have Your Say on Hot Wine Topics!October 28thSometimes I wonder if the Internet should have a theme song. I’d nominate Rage Against The Machine’s Take The Power Back, given the possibilities of democratization that the connected economy presents to us nearly every day.
bevlog Rejection: RefreshingOctober 28thQuite a few readers have said, “yeah, unusual approvals are great, but what about rejections?” Here we have the first post of many, from time to time, showing common or revealing label rejections.
Artisan Family of Wines Good Reads WednesdayOctober 28thEvery Wednesday I post my recommendations of the best of last week’s postings concerning wine, whether blogs or news.I list them in the order I read them, so you shouldn’t infer anything about the order in which I list these posts.
Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog The Wine Of My DreamsOctober 28thI cannot recall ever remembering specific wines that appeared in my dreams. In fact, I can't ever recall wine playing a role in my dreams—though this may be a function of me simply not remembering my dreams usually since wine has been a fairly important part of my life.
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