Like most working professionals in the U.S.A., we worry quite a bit about outsourcing and the effect of the global economy on our jobs. To this end, we were really interested in a recent bit of research on the effect of the global market on wine consumers.
It turns out that the Top100 wines, as […]

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The economy might slowing, but it doesn’t seem to be slowing down wine consumption in the USA. The United States is now the second largest wine market in the world, recently surpassing Italy but still behind France. My liver not withstanding, we still lag in per capita consumption.
All this care of a recent […]

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I have been hiding under a rock for some time, so I somehow missed the controversy about Illinois banning wine shipments from out-of-state retailers. Fortunately, I happened upon At First Glass, a great wine blog, that blogged about the issue.
I’m sorry to hear that Illinois has joined the nightmare that I have found myself […]

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The 2008 Philadelphia Wine Festival is today. The beneficiary this year is the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), one of the best children’s hospitals in the country.
Lots of good wineries present - and an extra-special liquor store set up by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, one of the most over-bearing and ridiculous monopolies in […]

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Following up on our previous entry about the on-going “Champagne” controversy, we spotted another news items in the NY Times.
A biscuit maker in Champagne, Switzerland is being forced to cease using the brand name (”de Champagne”) his family has been marketing since the 1930s. In exchange for landing rights for SwissAir - a […]

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