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What in the World is Charles Smith Up to Now? A Visit to Jet City Winery
Charles Smith’s Jet City Winery is located across the street from historic Boeing Field in Seattle’s gritty but hip Georgetown neighborhood. The building started life as a Dr. Pepper bottling plant....
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What’s Ahead for Wine Tourism in Mendoza? Lessons from a Rock Opera
The United Nations World Tourism Organization’s global wine tourism conference in Mendoza, Argentina was full of contrasts as you might expect in a high desert region that is punctuated by isolated...
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The Changing Face of Wine in America: The Cooper’s Hawk Phenomenon
As I noted last week, wine is everywhere in America, or nearly so, and while it is common knowledge that the U.S. is the world’s largest wine market and that wine is produced in all 50 states, the...
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Precept Wine and the Willie Sutton Recipe for Market Growth
At the conclusion of the State of the Industry session at the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium each January Nielsen’s Danny Brager announces his Bronze, Silver, and Gold medal wineries. The medals...
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Two Cheers for Canned Wine
Canned wine has been around for a while, but has gained traction in just the last couple of years. Some observers are suspicious that it is just a fad — a flash in the pan — that won’t last for long....
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Bastille Day Reflections: Libertè, Ègalitè, Rosè
Today is July 14, France’s national day — Bastille Day — and it is a good moment to consider Rosè and the democratization of French wine and wine in general. One thing that I like about Rosè is that is...
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Has U.S. Wine Industry Consolidation Gone Too Far?
Is the U.S. wine industry becoming too concentrated, with just a few big firms dominating the marketplace? That, more or less, was one of the questions we were asked at the press conference that...
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A Wine Emissary from Planet Bonny Doon
Sue and I had an unexpected visitor recently. He said he was an emissary from another world, a place called Bonny Doon Vineyard. He came in peace, bearing two very interesting Bonny Doon wines. Was I...
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Will Success Spoil Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc?
Will success spoil Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc? That is the question that haunts the 50+ winery members of Appellation Marlborough Wine (AMW). Sauvignon Blanc, as everyone knows, is New Zealand’s...
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Fiasco Flashbacks? Rediscovering Chianti Classico
It is called a fiasco. Fiasco? Yes, I know what you are thinking, but you’re wrong. I’m not talking about what happening in Congress with the debt ceiling. And I am not talking about the bonehead moves...
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