The other day I was with a small group of wine drinkers at a winery. The winemaker, in explaining his wines, gestured around his vineyards and said he wanted to make wines that “taste like this place.” The following content is accessible for members only, please sign...
For the first time in the US, sales of white wine have overtaken red. The “switch” happened in 2024. Today, 49% of wine sales are white wine; 45% are red. So what’s driving the decline in red wine? The following content is accessible for members only, please sign...
I asked my followers on Instagram recently to name the best palate cleanser. (Someone once told me celery is absolutely terrific. But celery???). The answers came in: from crackers and bread to apples and raw almonds. I promised to share my own favorite. So here it...
When you hear statements such as the World Health Organization’s declaration that “no amount of alcohol is safe,” do you think: but that’s not me. I’m a wine drinker.The following content is accessible for members only, please sign...
So much has been written lately about the declining number of people who drink wine.The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
Approachable. I’ve heard a thousand wines described that way. So, what exactly is anThe following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
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I’ve read scores of studies on declining wine consumption among younger US consumers.The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
A. Homemade iced tea during the period known as the Roaring 20s
B. The first bottled lemonade
C. Coca-Cola
D. New Orleans “Milk” Punch
C.
In the 1880s, Atlanta, GA, chemist John Stith Pemberton created a popular and stimulating wine tonic infused with kola nuts and coca leaves. But when the city of Atlanta (his biggest market) voted to ban alcohol, Pemberton removed the wine, and kept the caffeine and cocaine, according to reporting in The New York Times. By 1929, these two ingredients were also removed. As Prohibition swept the country, Coca-Cola began being marketed as the ultimate “temperance drink.”
Approximate revenue (in billions of US$) that E&J Gallo earned in 2025, according to Forbes. The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.