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How giving up alcohol made me appreciate wine more
Finding sobriety didn’t end my relationship with alcohol, it fundamentally changed it. It took me a couple of months to engage with wine professionally again, tasting and spitting instead of seeking the end goal of intoxication. Even now, I tend to avoid large tastings and limit the number of wines I explore in one sitting. But the greatest change was of intention with the process: tasting to understand and explore the flavours, stories and nuances of each wine.
I began to discover a new clarity. Those little edges that had once felt softened suddenly had greater definition. Minerality shimmered with more purity, and heady aromatics haunted with newfound intensity. It became less about identifying red or black cherries, and more about appreciating the details that give each wine its own character.
I often talk with our team about the circular notion of “purpose and presence” and how relevant this is when tasting wine – and in sobriety it has never felt more relevant. The purpose of tasting creates presence. And the presence gives purpose back to tasting. The more present you are, the more detail you notice; the more detail you notice, the more present you become.
Wine's origin might affect acceptable price more than taste study shows -- ScienceDaily
Researchers found that revealing the country and region of origin of the wines from Iowa and Wisconsin had a negative effect on how much participants were willing to pay per bottle. Customers indicated they would be willing to pay an average of $2.70 to $4.80 less per bottle than the designated stated retail price for the wines.
For example, if the wine's stated retail price was $24, then the customer would be willing to pay potentially $2.70 to $4.80 less than that price, or $21.30 or $19.20 per bottle.
Hungary's Tokaj wine region revives Jewish heritage | Reuters
Alongside the plaques, however, there is a push to rediscover the wine-making region's Jewish roots. Hundreds of Hasidic Jewish pilgrims flock annually to Mád to visit the Baroque synagogue and the newly restored rabbi's house.
The plaques marked the first time that any Jewish family was given public recognition in Tokaj.
"This is a unique story: as far I know this is the first time that a (Jewish) family is remembered this way with a plaque in the Tokaj region," Mariann Frank, who leads a project to revive the region's Jewish traditions, said.
Wine soup
At his small winery in the foothills west of Madrid, Fabio Bartolomei points out a few things the giants in the industry don’t like to advertise: Their wines are made from grapes sprayed with pesticides and are tweaked with colorants, thickeners, and flavor enhancers. The founder of Vinos Ambiz takes the opposite approach, producing 8,000 to 12,000 bottles a year of tempranillo, albillo, garnacha, and a handful of other varieties with minimal intervention.
28 Cheap California Wines Found to Contain High Levels of Arsenic | LA Weekly
Many popular, low-priced brands of wine sold in California contain illegal and dangerously high levels of poisonous arsenic, according to a class-action lawsuit filed March 19 in California Superior Court. The suit claims dozens of California wineries are violating state law by knowingly producing, marketing and selling arsenic-contaminated wine. Independent testing showed the wine contained up to five times the maximum amount the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) allows for drinking water.Some of the popular wine brands named in the lawsuit include Franzia, Ménage à Trois, Sutter Home, Wine Cube, Charles Shaw, Glen Ellen, Cupcake, Beringer and Vendage. The wines named in the lawsuit are primarily white or blush varietals including moscato, pinot grigio and sauvignon blanc that are priced under $10.
Among the Alconauts « LRB blog
The Kremlin has ordered a million bottles of European wine so far this year, a 26 per cent rise on the same period last year. Could they be putting together a stash before imposing sanctions? It isn’t hard to imagine the Kremlin blocking European booze and lauding the patriotic qualities of Crimean and Krasnodar reds. Most of them are terrible but the other week in Moscow I drank my first pretty good Southern Russian white. It had been created with the help of French experts, who spent years on the job. If the wine wars begin in earnest, the West will have to ban vintners and oenologists from working in Russia.
