Recognizing trends and reinventing oneself is essential to survive on the market. Bordeaux has been taking these steps successfully. A commentary by Alexandra Wrann.
Robert Joseph gained a reputation for being very critical of natural wine, but he's been keeping a watchful eye on its evolution. And encountered a few surprises along the way.
As Robert Joseph considers how to label a new Georgian blend, he looks back at designs over the last half century, and wonders slightly at the overt sexiness of quite highly priced wines from very different producers on both sides of the Atlantic.
The wine industry focuses a lot of attention on the way wine performs in blind tastings and less on the way it is perceived by the people who actually drink it - and why. Top researchers are conducting studies but Robert Joseph impudently wonders if they are asking the right questions.
Niederösterreich, Austria’s largest wine-growing area, consists of eight independent quality regions designated as DACs, or Districtus Austriae Controllatus. They stretch in close proximity to one another, often taking their names from their own distinctive landscapes.
