Wine Blogging Wednesday takes a turn for the unusual. This time, instead of just getting a bunch of wine recommendations, you can also win a book! [basic juice ] The Bordeaux glut , under the microscope [Time ] COPIA , a Napa attraction dedicated to food and wine, strugles to ...

... wait, points! He rates it a 91. [Wines & Vines ] With 14.8 million visitors in 2003, tasting rooms...

... signed up to write the script for a movie based on the 1976 Paris Tasting and last year's book...

Think pink: The NYT discusses trendy rosé and the $30 Domaines Ott. Lettie Teague is quoted saying, "'An expensive rosé is oxymoronic,' she said. 'Domaines Ott is good but not so significantly better than wines that are $10 cheaper or half the price.' She suggested that Domaines Ott is 'a ...

Wineau RIP : R.W. "Johnny" Apple's obit in the NYT . Wine glut : merlot hangs on the vine [Sonoma Press Democrat ] Wine glug : Americans drank 2.1 percent more wine last year polishing off 273.7 million 9-liter cases according to Adams Beverage. Imported wines overall grew 5.6% while ...

Catch Jancis Robinson on her last NYC stop tonight at Astor Wine for a free tasting and signing of the new Oxford Companion to Wine . 6-8 PM. In the most punchy writing ever seen on Decanter, a review calls "A Good Year " starring Russell Crowe "an absolute dog." Russell Crowe's character, an investment banker turned vintner in Provence, intones such lines as "I want a bottle that tastes...

The National Highway Safety Administration launches a new marketing campaign against drunken driving . Will it crimp wine sales the way a similar campaign has in France? [NYT ] Speaking of Washington (were we?), blogger Winesmith has contacted all the candidates for DC mayor nd posts their wine preferences. The ...

The NYT Sunday Business runs a long article today on numerical wine ratings, aka The Number . Consider it essential reading. I'll be adding it to the syllabus of my critics class at NYU this fall since it provides a good overview of the contours of the debate. The struggle ...

Will the good conditions of 2006 spell relief for Bordeaux vineyard owners? Ironically, no. The Observer quotes Mathieu Barbier, a Bordeaux-based winegrower as saying: "Whatever we seem to do we get it in the neck. All the climatic conditions have been perfect and the grapes are magnificent... but the harvest ...

Foster's , the Australian brewing co that swallowed Southcorp wine for A$3.2 billion last year, announced quarterly results. Beer bolstered sagging wine and management can't think of anything better to do with their cash than buy back A$200 mln worth of its own shares. Now there are rumors that the ...