Robert Joseph suggests that wine is not all about terroir and food-matching.

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Robert Joseph takes a look at how some big companies are reacting to an increasingly polarised wine industry.

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Robert Joseph takes a sceptical look at claims being made for environmental consciousness among the young.

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Robert Joseph offers some advice for producers looking for distribution in a saturated market.

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In Alsace, a wine may only bear the grape variety designation Riesling on the label if it consists of this variety and has also been vinified dry. Is this the right decision? A commentary by Vincent Messmer. 

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Robert Joseph’s suggestion that wine marketers could learn from the effort studios put into promoting movies like Barbie attracted a lot of interest. Now he wonders if there could be lessons too in the numbers of people who chose to watch that film in a double feature with Oppenheimer.

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Robert Joseph takes a fresh look at the potential usefulness of press releases, in an age when their most valuable readers might just be artificially intelligent robots.

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Last week, Robert Joseph suggested that wineries need to do more marketing, but that the prices of too many wines are too low for them to be able to do so. He also promised to provide some thoughts on how to raise prices. Here, in a highly personal piece, he includes a few suggestions based on his own commercial experiences.

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Robert Joseph believes the wine industry could learn from the way successful movies are marketed.

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