In the world of trends you've got leading indicators and trailing indicators. The former tells where the trend is headed while the latter suggests where the trend has headed. Higher education is a trailing indicator. A demonstration of this can...

Mariquita's original posting on this topic still remains the standard in my mind:  a 50/50 mixture of hydrogen peroxide and blue dawn dishwasher detergent will remove red wine stains miraculously and permanently.  (I am sad to report the number of times that we've relied on this tip in our household ...

Attention wine lovers: If a wine smells bad and tastes bad, it isn't necessarily bad!!! We recently opened and tasted a bottle of one of our favorite California Cabernets, Altamura Vineyards and Winery 1995 vintage, and declared it bad. After lamenting the loss, we started to pour the bottle down ...

As I have written in past posts, the wine lake continues to grow as supply of wine exceeds demand.  Unfortunately, the "old world" -- France and Spain primarily -- is being hit the hardest as Australian wines continue to bump French product off the shelves.  The following excerpt ran on ...

As I mentioned in a previous post, Champagne is facing numerous challenges, from limited supply and increasing costs to competing products and limited reviews. Some of these issues and potential remedies follow in this post. Limited Supply The maximum number of bottles that can be produced in Champagne, given the ...

I think casting an askance eye at Biodynamic farming in the wine industry might be a case of ....that's been done. For all the talk of Biodynamicism of late, there has been a decent chorus of folk who question it's...

It's easy to sit in our cozy wine country enclave, watch the news of potential terror attacks emanating out of Great Britain and think, well, we are safe in our little world. However, today's events could significantly impact the wine...

From the looks of the various studies that have emerged over the past couple of decades you might conclude that drinking wine is the cure for all ills. Now I'm thinking that drinking might also be the cure for stagnant...

The post right below this one spurred on Fred Koeppel of KoeppelOnWine to make this comment: Tom, I know that you don't review wines on Fermentation, but you owe it to your readers and fans AND to the winery that...

I fully admit that Iberian wines are not always the most friendly wine labels to decipher; which explains our logic in writing an entire series on how to not only interpret Spanish wine label but also the Portuguese wine label, and finally Port wine labels! But when you’re roaming your ...