Writing abit about France the last days, with my post about young people in France drinking less wine, one of the reasons was that wine was “to complicated”. Now thats about to change!
Decanter.com wrote a article about “French government unveils sweeping changes to wine sector“. Basically it’s about France gonna go away from theire AoC [...]
Filed under: France, Winetalk on June 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »
Found this article in a Norvegian paper, Dagens Næringsliv. It was about an study released last week by American academic Dr Liz Thatch, showing that french students and young people are turning away from wine. On the other side of the pond, the american youngsters are becoming more and more wine aware.
Dr. Thatch have done [...]
Filed under: France, USA, Winetalk, Young People on May 29th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Okey, this is not really new stories, but I find it very fascinating anyway.
WineSide.net -
offers trial-size (4, 6 or cl) winetubes of sweet wines, some classic wines and a few spirit, including Chateau Neuf du Pape, Chablis, Sauternes and XO Armagnac. They offer the tubes individually or in a boxset can be chosen. This sets [...]
Filed under: Twisted Oak Winery, Winelibrary, Winetalk on May 20th, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m a newbie when it come’s to wine, and I havent been drinking more then 50-100 wines since I became wine “aware”. And therefore it frustrates me when “wineknowers” writes about wines in this way; “it’s a typical Barolo wine” or “just like you would expect from a Bordeaux wine”.
If you are a wineknower, [...]
Filed under: Gary Vayerchuk, Winelibrary, Winetalk on May 8th, 2008 | No Comments »
