There are not too many states that have more arcane liquor laws than Pennsylvania where you can buy beer at the beer store (but only by the case) and liquor and wine at the state-owned liquor store.  It is a system that was originally designed to make buying alcohol inconvenient, and it certainly excels at […]

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Cork’d, one of our “competitors” (like we are really competing, huh!) got hacked today. Kudos for them handling it so well.

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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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