Daily Wine News: What’s the Big Deal?
J Vineyards & Winery, just purchased by E. & J. Gallo (Flickr: yajico)
“So you want to be a wine writer. Why?” asks Mike Dunne, in a summary of his experience at the Symposium for Professional Wine Writers in the Sacramento Bee.
“E. & J. Gallo, the world’s largest wine company, has purchased J Vineyards & Winery, a prominent Sonoma county producer of sparkling wine, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir,” reports Wine Spectator.
Tom Wark thinks “Robert Parker is wrong,” and that he’s not “part of the problem.”
What’s the big deal about Kosher wine? Adam Lechmere wants to know in Wine Searcher.
Alfonso Cevola looks at “why this might be our last Vinitaly in Verona.”
“If the industry is to lure the under-35 crowd away from beer and spirits to wine, it has to find ways to speak to them in their own language,” says Steve Heimoff.
“Holy moly. WTF, Wine Country? Something is seriously wrong.” Alder Yarrow comments on the current events in California wine country.
Frances Dinkelspiel visits Boisset’s new tool museum at Buena Vista in the Berkleyside Nosh.
Jancis Robinson congratulates the five new Masters of Wine.
Mike Veseth, the wine economist, offers exchange rate lessons from “Australia’s Wine Boom and Bust.”
Monty Waldin offers a lesson on “pet nat” wines in Grape Collective.
Lily-Elaine Hawk Wakawaka gets to know Lexington wines from Gist Ranch Vineyard.
(c) Terroirist: A Daily Wine Blog – Read entire story here.
