Robert Joseph watched an internationally popular business reality television series for the first time in a decade - and found it included surprisingly useful lessons about margins, branding and distribution. Here are four key takeaways.

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The ProWein must once again take the initiative to avoid falling behind. A commentary by Clemens Gerke.

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Robert Joseph often likes to defend (or at least, explain) the apparently indefensible. Here, as thousands of professionals consider the high cost of attending ProWein, he offers a reasonable explanation for those high hotel prices.

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Franciacorta is the latest region to break itself up into subzones. At first glance, this seems too complicated — but Robert Joseph suggests there may be method behind the madness.

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Robert Joseph takes an offbeat look at the changing way that oak is viewed by the wine industry.

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When a host says 'can I get you a drink?', they're rarely offering No-Lo wines or sparkling tea. Robert Joseph suggests that, despite not containing any alcohol, these are ‘drinks' too – and deserve rather more recognition than they're currently given.

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Robert Joseph suggests that, if the wine industry is to combat the threat of Neo-Prohibitionism, it needs to work together  with producers of other forms of alcohol, to create a strategy, acknowledge some of its own failings, and to understand where its foes are coming from.

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On the eve of ProWein, Robert Joseph will be joining a number of illustrious speakers to discuss the way technology is changing the wine industry.

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The Court of Master Sommeliers has dropped the terms ‘New World’ and ‘Old World’. Robert Joseph considers the issue.

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