Jeff Lefevere and I return to review the top wine stories of the past month including tongue-twisting wine names, a disturbing wine manifesto, trends in wine marketing, the stellar 2009 Bordeaux vintage and much more.
Hosts: Tim Elliott and Jeff Lefevere
Topics
- If the wine is hard to pronounce, is it worth more?
- Has wine lost it’s romance?
- The Slow Wine movement
- 2009 Bordeaux: vintage of the century?
- Will drinking too much wine give you cancer?
- Million Dollar Day for WinesTilSoldOut.com
- Wine’s 2011 Report Card
- Moet Hennessy aims for super-premium red wine from China
- Are Americans’ Tastes Changing?
- Wine discounting trends
- Randall Grahm and The State of the Modest Winery
- Follow-up on QR codes from last month
Events
- 2012 New York Wine Expo: March 2-4, New York City
- 2012 World of Pinot Noir Tasting: March 2-3, Shell Beach, CA
- Paso Robles Wine Country’s 2012 Zinfandel Festival, March 17, 2012
- Wine Blogging Wednesday 75, Single Vineyard, March 21st
- Rhone Rangers, San Francisco, March 24-25
- For events near you check out Local Wine Events
Links discussed on the show
- Consumers pay more for tongue-twisting wines
- If the wine is hard to pronounce, is it worth more?
- Wine’s Decline
- Wine: Is The Romance Gone?
- Slow wine: eco-gastronomy creeps to the fermented grape
- Suckling Hails ’09 Bordeaux “Best Ever”
- Consumers urged to count units
- Two glasses of wine a day ‘triples mouth cancer risk’
- WOW: The ‘Woot of Wine’ Just Had A Million-Dollar Day
- The state of the wine market, 2012
- Wine’s 2011 Report Card
- Consumer Wine Trends: Overall Consumption Up
- Moet Hennessy aims for super-premium red wine from China
- The Low Alcohol Craze Goes Overboard
- The debate about high alcohol sometimes verges on insanity
- Are Americans’ Tastes Changing?
- BERGER: A preference toward lower-alcohol wines?
- Wine Discounting Likely to Continue
- Doon to Earth (Redux)
- Wine & The Connected Consumer
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