This is the premier episode of This Month in Wine, a monthly discussion about what is going on within the wine world from a consumer and insider perspective.
Hosts: Tim Elliott and Jeff Lefevere
Topics
- What’s up with Good Grape?
- Is wine blogging on the decline?
- Wine Trends & Predictions for 2012
- Value Replaces Cheap
- Wine Regulation Reform Continues
- Sweet Wines Continue Growth
- Blends Come Back in Vogue
- Green Packaging Booms
- Chinese Wine Market Continues To Show Influence
- Recovery of Wine Market
- Low Alcohol Wines
- Natural Wines
Events
- Wine Blogging Wednesday 74, Feb. 15th, Value Sparkling Wine
- Dark & Delicious, February 17, 2012, Alameda, CA
- San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition Public Tasting, February 18, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
- For wine events near you check out Local Wine Events
Links discussed on the show
- Good Grape Goes on Hiatus
- Reflections on 8 Years of Wine Blogging
- Top Ten Wine Trends in 2011
- Wine Trends To Watch in 2012
- 5 things about wine to focus on in 2012
- Forecast: Wine, grape prices to rise in 2012
- Doug’s 10 Trends for the Wine Biz in 2012
- Top 5 Wine Trends in 2011
- Bulk-wine inventory hits 12-year low
- China overtakes UK to become fifth largest wine-consuming nation: Vinexpo
- Cool climate wines could grow Aussie volumes
- Wines Worth a Taste, but Not the Vitriol
- Natural Wines “Not For The Masses”
- Natural wine movement, just noise?
- The Natural Wine Debate Gets Ugly
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Outstanding, Gentlemen!!! Get out word far and wide when the new episodes are up!
Thank you, Tom. This Month in Wine will be out the last Sunday of each month with other Winecast shows the other weeks. They will be all over Twitter, Facebook and Google+ when they are released.