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Wine at the touch of your fingers

September 15, 2009

If you love perusing a heavy leather cover wine list in a restaurant, this is not for you! Exit the wine list painfully typed by the sommelier or restaurant owner and rarely updated! I usually get slightly annoyed when I order a bottle of wine of the 2003 vintage and hear the waiter tell me: [...]

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2009 European Wine Bloggers Conference, Lisbon, Portugal

September 7, 2009

The 2009 EWBC will take place from Oct. 30 to Nov 1st, 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal. As the date gets closer, I’m getting more and more excited about the event. The program is well thought out and covers issues important to wine bloggers, such as “Monetising the Social Wine Brand (retailers, social networks, wineries, affiliate [...]

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Julia Child loved wine too!

September 2, 2009

I just finished reading My life in France by Julia Child and I really enjoyed it. It’s funny, full of humor, very humble and inspiring for any aspiring author. For people of my generation, Julia Child was part of the American wine and food scene. She was an icon but I must confess that I [...]

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Santa Barbara Winery: surfing on the wine wave

August 19, 2009

Santa Barbara Winery was established in 1962 by French Canadian Pierre Lafond. It was the first winery opened in santa Barbara since the Prohibition. It was a bold move when wine was still not very trendy in the US and more specifically in California. The winery developed nicely over the decades: acres were acquired, mono [...]

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Innovative blends, creative wines

August 14, 2009

As a French wine professional, I’m always amazed by the creativity of American wine producers. While in France, you identify the wine regions by the type of grapes (Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in Burgundy and Champagne, Cabernet and Merlot in Bordeaux, Mourvèdre, Grenache or Malbec in the South West…), California is paradise for a lot [...]

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New name, new bottle, new label, new wine?

August 11, 2009

Second wines of classified growths have sometimes a hard time to have a life of their own and to be recognized by the consumers as high-quality wines. That’s why the story of the second wine of the famed Château Haut-Brion is so intriguing. For many years, the second wine of Château Haut-Brion was named after [...]

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The Burghound’s book on Vosne-Romanée

August 6, 2009

Allen Meadows, the famous Burghound, specialist of Burgundy wines, will soon publish a long-needed book on the The Pearl of the Côte. The Great Wines of Vosne-Romanée. As Allen explained in a recent interview on the newwineconsumer.com podcast, the idea of the book came to him when he was tasting 74 (yes, 74!) vintages of [...]

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Vinexpo – Day 4 : New Technologies for the wine business

June 24, 2009

Today is devoted to new technologies with the conference of the Bordeaux School of Business (BEM) in the morning and the Great Wine Capitals in the afternoon. The focus of the morning was on Prof. Gregory Bressoles’ new study on wine e-commerce. My readers know about Gregory’s first study conducted in 2007 and presented at [...]

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Vinexpo – Day 3: organic wines

June 23, 2009

Today was my “organic” day. Organic wines are a growing category in many countries and attract the attention of the wine consumers. I was a little confused about the differences between organic and biodynamic wines. Very basically a wine is considered organically grown when not using any pesticides, chemicals, fungicides or herbicides. Some countries have [...]

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Vinexpo – Day 2 : Malbec Summit and Tutti Quanti

June 22, 2009

Vinexpo is this year again bubbling with activity and people: 2,400 exhibitors representing 48 countries, some new to Vinexpo (Poland, Sweden, Belarus and Egypt). In the halls you meet a lot of Eastern European professionals as well as people from India, Maghreb or Middle East. A fascinating medley of languages and styles. But a girl [...]

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