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The Decline and Divide Among French and American Wine Culture
In France, still I think the undisputed center of the wine world, per capita consumption continues to drop. A new report out of France shows that the the average French adult now consumes not more than...
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The Top Wine Stories Coming in 2013
What issues will the wine trade and the more active wine consumers be talking about, be concerned with and be reading about in 2013? Predicting what is to come is not really that difficult if you read...
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Historic Wine Reform Effort Closer to Success
There is a good chance that the Pennsylvania House of Representatives will vote today on a proposal to privatize that state’s alcohol sales and distribution system. If the measure passes the house, it...
View ArticleThe Impact of Proposed Lower Blood Alcohol Content Levels on Wine Lovers
Yesterday the National Transportation Safety Board recommended lowering the legal blood alcohol level for drivers from .08 to .05, which would put the U.S. (or any states that adopted the new, lower...
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Wild Yeast Fermentation: “There’s No Such Thing”
Some fairly stunning information concerning the idea of “Wild” or “Indigenous” yeast is coming to light that has implications for wine marketing and wine making. How shall I put this? Let’s try this:...
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Stop What You Are Doing and Pray To the Wine Gods—NOW!
There’s very nifty golf course here in Napa called Chardonnay Golf Club. As you might imagine, there are LOTS of grapevines strewn about the property and it’s really a beautiful sight and beautiful set...
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The Contours of My Belly Button
Do I and others who publish their own site about wine know far too much about the contours of our navel? Have we explored its ins and outs ad infinitum? This is the gentle charge that was made in a...
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How Good Is This Wine News?
Not too long ago on this blog I wrote a spoof of so-called “natural wine” entitled, “Natural Wine Cures Cancer.” Clearly a spoof. Then, yesterday, I read this headline: Red Wine & Aspirin Could...
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Honoring and Remembering Hanzell Vineyard’s Bob Sessions
In tribute to the recently passed Hanzell Vineyard’s Emeritus Winemaker Bob Sessions and his family, FERMENTATION: The Daily Wine Blog will be static until Monday, May 19. No new posts will be placed...
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Does the Three Tier System of Alcohol Sales Kill People?
Today we are told by the Center for Disease Control that excessive alcohol use accounts for one in 10 deaths among working-age adults ages 20-64 years in the United States. If this is true, I know what...
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In Defense of Excess(ive) Wine Writing
While it is true that the vast majority of wine that is sold and drunk in the U.S. is sub-$10 basic stuff of little note or interest, that’s no reason for a writer (or publisher) to focus on these...
View ArticleFrantic Parent Syndrome Highlighted in Wine TV Ads
It’s not often that voters here the words “wine” in those wonderful campaign ads that control the airwaves during election season. However, voters in Tennessee are getting a glass full in the run up...
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A Great Story About a Great Wine Man
I used to joke with a former colleague at a wine PR firm that the first one of us to get their visage depicted in a line drawing in the Wall Street Journal wins—triggering an automatic dinner at the...
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