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EHOW ARTICLE ON HOW TO TASTE WINE...

From the sidelines(dodging the trolls) Was there something about tasting wine in this thread and what happened to the Oregon thread?

A winery is a business, not a public trust; if someone like Erath is tired of calling up his bank to get money to replace equipment and can find a fix and fit with a conglomerate, it is good for the current owners. The question for consumer is, is the present winemaking team making the move intact and are they going to be able to produce wine "their way".

Take Fetzer, always a very good QPR operation---sold to Brown & Forman and now placed on national chain's wine list. If I'm forced to dine @ Applebee's and want some wine, I know with Fetzer I'll have a pleasant quaff. On the otherhand I think it was Pepsi that ruined Monterey---"repositioning" that winery every few years. Their Classic Red was consistently better then Mondavi-Woodbridge which was introduced about the same time. The Pepsi generation didn't understand how to sell wine turning Sterling into a tourist mecca from being a premium winery.

Regarding the possible sale of Erath---"It is what it is."

Reply to
Joe "Beppe"Rosenberg
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Joe, my best guess is the wine consumption in the USA is about to increase in supernormal growth. When that occurs large corporations will continue to acquire industry capability by acquisition. Therefore many more of the artisan type wines will sell out to large corps. Wine will come down in price to drive the remaining independents to sell out as they cannot compete.

When less independents exist, price will go back up, thus substantiating the investment and quality will become what it does depending upon who the corporate mission is. Price, quality etc.

Its just another industry doing the same that banking did, insurance did, retail drug, retail grocery, hospitals....corporate. No more free toasters to open a bank account.

Reply to
Richard Neidich

One must refrain from 'tasting' what is meant to be drunk.

'nuff said.

Reply to
UC

Salut/Hi Martin Field,

le/on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:02:15 +1000, tu disais/you said:-

Well either you or Lord St Bourke could be right (sorry about the delay in replying). Because I didn't regularly watch JG on TV, I can't say I can guarantee that she said it first. However, Jancis R, for all her well merited reputation as a wine writer (I've always been in awe of her research) doesn't really impress me as a creator of really colourful phrases. From that point of view, Oz' language is far more evocative.

However of the three of them, there's little doubt that JG loved the rapport and communication during her stint on TV as a food & wine presenter, and frequently used the most imaged language (frequently to the point of caricature) about wines.

I wonder if it is possible to find out. Interesting project!

Reply to
Ian Hoare

Hi Ian - this from Amazon review Cheers! Martin

Amazon.co.uk Review For amateur wine enthusiasts, Jancis Robinson's 1995 BBC series Wine, covering the length and breadth of the viticulture industry, was a landmark event. Robinson's mission was to strip away the mystique and pretentiousness surrounding wine production and consumption. This created a marvellously accessible piece of reportage which placed all the good things about wine drinking in the context of a radically changing world where small producers are an endangered species. "Wine is the liquid expression of a person and a place", she says, leaving you in no doubt about her own passion for her subject. But Robinson, an excellent television presenter in this age of mediocre all-purpose talking heads, balances her own expert knowledge with dry humour (Sauvignon Blanc is gently derided for its "reek of cat's pee on a gooseberry bush"), cynicism and strong opinions. She tells of the political intrigues, superstitions and climactic conditions which shape the nature of the world's most popular alcoholic beverage in all its forms. Character by character, region by region, grape by grape, she unravels a tale which has more than its share of dark and sinister moments. Endlessly fascinating...Piers Ford

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Martin Field

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