Comments on: Brangelina, Texas, tariffs, Davos – sipped and spit

By: The Wine Mule

The Wine Mule — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:15:54 +0000

In my limited experience, Champagne is the preferred beverage of reconciliation. Although a 1997 Faively Mercurey “Les Framboisieres” is pretty good, too.

By: Dr. Vino

Dr. Vino — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:08:25 +0000

Joe – The number one selling wine in Australia is Oyster Bay Sauvignon Blanc (from New Zealand). Also, once commenter on twitter pointed out that imports account for 11 percent of Australian wine consumption, adding, “Imports just a sign of a maturing and more confident market ‘palate’. A good thing, no?”

Thanks for the Brangelina update, Sarah!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:09:17 +0000

We can all relax, it seems Brangelina had an “affectionate night out” last night. PHEW! Now what’s more interesting, the wine they had during their feud or their make up wine??

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20340572,00.html

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:39:54 +0000

interesting Australia is importing more wine (or the U.S., for that matter). With such a glut, one might think local marketeers would try to encourage more domestic consumption (especially in Australia). Seems that we’re in a ebb of lighter-styled wines, lower alcohol; more food-friendly. Wonder where the imports are coming from (Europe?)

By: The Wine Mule

The Wine Mule — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:25:16 +0000

In the link on California wine sales (gotta love a newspaper that calls itself The Bee), notice that the big guys like Constellation, Gallo, and Trinchero (no mention of Bronco, why’s that?) did all right in ’09. Which just goes to show that if you get the price right, you can still move an ocean of wine off the shelf, even if it really isn’t very good.

Once you get off the bottom tier, there are still far too many California producers who are either unable or unwilling to be price-competitive. No matter what the marketing ninnies who yammer about “branding” say, “Napa Valley” on a label is not enough to move a bottle of cabernet priced at $29.99, especially when there’s a Chilean cab with an equal or better Spectator score across the way at $21.99.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:33:26 +0000

I bet I’ll be the only one here commenting on the Brangelina gossip, but thanks for sharing the news! To be serious, of course I’d love to know which 5 bottles of wine they drank at their “stormy” dinner, but also I’m thinking, where on earth can I get both edifying news from on wine scene, AND the latest celebrity gossip! I’m not being facetious here, I really was totally entertained by the Brangelina bit here.
Every now and then a girl needs some juicy, mindless celebrity gossip on a Saturday night. : )

By: David Strange

David Strange — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:22:10 +0000

I find it more surprising that wine imports are increasing in Australia than the same happening in the US. In my experience Australians often tend to be more convinced that their home-made products are best and be less interested in ‘alien’ commodities. This may be another sweeping generalisation (all generalisations are odious, naturally) but it strikes me that US buyers are less parochial and will source their goods from anywhere if the price is right.

As an aside, the most parochial people as far as liking their own wines go are clearly the big wine producing countries in Europe: France, Italy, Spain and Germany. When dining in them it is a vanishingly rare treat to see a wine from outside their country on a restaurant list.

Cheers,
David.

By: Weston

Weston — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:30:27 +0000

BC and Ontario are the worse with the taxes and yes they should lower then hate seeing on a US website such and such wine for 50$ when it costs 110 aprox in BC