- Value Wines & Hot Spirits for Your List
The 3rd annual 2003 Chicago Value Wine Challenge was conducted by the Beverage Testing Institute, a professional product review and marketing company based in Chicago. all wines were tasted blind in Riedel stemware under controlled conditions by an expert panel of tasters. Wineries, importers, and marketers sent more than 400 ......
- Public relations: some sample
plans.
Just what is public relations, anyway? And why do you, as a vintner or supplier, need it? All consumer wine writers get calls from winery owners or winemakers frequently, offering to send samples, take them on a tour of the winery and, in general, brushing off that threadbare red carpet ......
- Cosentino Creates CE2V Winery.
In March, Larry Soldinger, chairman of Cosentino Signature Enterprises, LLC, announced the creation of CE2V Winery, a new ultra-premium Napa Valley producer of estate wines. The 160-acre property is located in Pope Valley, Napa County, and 23 acres of the existing vineyard acres are being replaced with clones of Cabernet ......
- Trinchero Family Estates.
Trinchero Family Estates (Sutter Home to its friends) has entered into a joint venture with Carbonne Limited, an Australian wine company with extensive vineyard holdings and a new winery just constructed in New South Wales in the Orange district. The Napa winery will create an Australian brand to be named ......
- The back page.
We need a new way to talk about wine. We need wine talk without the old, tired adjectives and, for sure, without numbers. Most wine speak is based on a century or so of wine notes by men (mostly) in the English wine trade. It was a vocabulary they all ......
- What's so bad about sweet wine?
Parker Carlson, owner and winemaker of Carlson Vineyards outside Palisade, Colo., just loves to hear customers in his winery's tasting room walk in and proclaim, "Oh, I only drink dry." Carlson tells them, "OK, then just try this as a favor," and serves them a semi-sweet wine, often a red--then ......
- Precept launches new Aussie wine.
Precept Brands, a Seattle team led by Andrew Brown, who introduced Alice White to the U.S., has launched Outback Chase premium varietals from South Eastern Australia. The wines retail for $6.99 and include Shiraz, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Wobbly White, a blend. The wines are aimed at U.S. consumers ......