During at least five years aging in barrel sous voile (under a veil of yeast), evaporation is said to reduce a liter of wine by 38 percent. Evaporation in cask is never that consistent, but it has not been a bad marketing tool. I did not think I would have much else to write about...
The latest release from2008saw a price jump of approximately 25 percent, with fevered global demand driven by a 100-point score from The Wine Advocate's Lisa Perotti-Brown MW. Across all vintages, Grange has an average price of $566 on Wine-Searcher. ...
For over 50 years, the Sokol Blosser family has been putting passion into bottles at their winery in Oregon. Family owned since 1971, their story began when Susan Sokol and Bill Blosser first planted vines in the now-famous Dundee Hills of Oregon’s Willamette Valley. As second-generation ...
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I love wines I can feel good about. Piperfield Wines is the result of a 30-year friendship between two former waitresses whose love of wine and “balance” inspired their 5k and 1k wines. Five percent of all profits from wine sales go to local small charities. If you’d like to submit...
(most of it is box wine, I think) accounts for just under 10 percent of US supermarket wine sales, according to the Nielsen data (compared to 65% for standard bottles with the remainder in 1.5 liter and other formats). Sales are rising in this category, with 3 liter packages up 8.7%...
Fewer than one percent of the country’s wineries are Black-owned, but these entrepreneurs are hoping to change the statistic. ByBrooke Lewis Letter From| September 4, 2023 Don’t Napa My 290 Whether your tastes lean toward cabernet or peach-infused moscato, the Texas wine country has someth...
NA wine sales have grown by more than 25 percent over the last year, albeit from a relatively small base. On an anecdotal level, we have watched as the NA part of the wine wall at our local upscale supermarket has grown from one lonely bottom shelf to two shelves and now three. Given...
A report in Meininger’s Wine Business Monthly suggests that about 35 percent of wine bottles– over 2.5 billion units — had non-cork closures in 2007, including about 90 percent of New Zealand’s wine production. Screwcaps have long been associated with inexpensive wine, but this too is ...
where it comprises 95 percent of the blend. Varietal Merlot rose to popularity in the 1990s but too many insipid, watery, over-priced Merlots have taken the bloom off the rose. Outside of Bordeaux, it is at its very best in Washington state, where it ripens beautifully and creates plump,...