Let me start with “before” and “after” shots from the Prosecco production area of northern Italy, to provide a little context for the commercial transition between silk worms (”before”) and Prosecco (...
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France is the most visited country in the world. Here’s why
You might think a large country like the United States is the most visited in the world, but you’d be wrong — France takes that honor. About 90 million international visitors traveled there in 2...
Ukraine Is A Small But Mighty Market For Wine
A long history and a diversity of grapes drives the country’s winemaking The Chateau Chizay winery near Berehove in Zakarpattia Oblast Chateau Chizay Tough times for Ukrainians includes the wine indus...
Raise A Glass To Ukraine’s Wine History
The eastern European country has a long, respected history of producing wine Early Crimean winemakers Lev Golitsyn Mikhail Vorontsov. Collage: LBortolot The whole world is focused on Ukraine this week...
Ponzi scheme behind patriotic vodka, once featured on ‘Fox & Friends,’ scammed investors out of $900,000 to pay IRS and Amex bills, prosecutors say
A Connecticut businessman has pleaded guilty to operating an unpatriotic Ponzi scheme that pocketed $900,000 from investors looking to buy a pro-veteran vodka company. Brian Hughes, 57, of Madison, Co...
Constellation Brands Is Declining Towards Its ‘Reversion To The Mean’
(Photo by Richard Levine) Corbis via Getty Images Constellation Brands (STZ) set its 52-week high of $258.00 on January 6 on a positive reaction to its latest earnings report. After the high was set t...
What a Monster, Constellation Merger Might Mean and Why Coca-Cola Could Be Key
Text size Monster Beverage display, Indianapolis, IN, November, 2020. Jonathan Weiss/Dreamstime.com Monster Beverage stock climbed early Tuesday as investors weighed up a possible merger between the e...
How Wine And Memories Intertwine
A wine writer and her mentor share a bottle of wine without drinking it Wine is a taste but it’s also a memory Illustration: Julia Lea My annual birthday tribute to someone who taught me more ab...
What We’ve Learned, Part Two
Let me begin with a quick recap. A few weeks ago, the organizers of ProWein in Düsseldorf, Germany, one of the wine industry’s largest and most-attended trade fairs, announced that they’ve rescheduled...
Rhône Varieties, One By One
This is not how you’re supposed to enjoy Rhône style wines. One grape variety at a time, that is, which is what I’m suggesting today as a way to “play” with wine and maybe boost your experience and ex...
Wine Soaked Power Struggles Permeate Latino Family Drama Series ‘Promised Land’
John Ortiz stars in ABC’s “Promised Land.” (ABC/Eric McCandless) Christina Ochoa sheepishly admits, “I don’t drink, which I was very scared to tell Matt and Maggie when they ca...
Value Gets Its Moment. Consider These Stocks and ETFs.
Buy the dip, wrote J.P. Morgan’s strategists early this past week. As calls to courage go, it wasn’t exactly Churchill during the Blitz. The dip in this case was a 2% decline, year to date, in the S&a...
Chateau Angelus Drops Out Of Bordeaux’s Saint-Emilion Wine Classification Process
Château Angélus, one of four top ranked wines in the Saint-Émilion region of Bordeaux in southwest France, last week announced it had decided to drop out of the 2022 wine châteaux classification proce...
Constellation Wine Revenues Are Down But Coca-Cola Agreement For New Fresca Cocktails Could Prove Profitable
Kim Crawford Wine from Constellation Brands Constellation Brands A new agreement with Coca-Cola KO to create alcoholic Fresca cocktails could be part of the solution to help pull Constellation’s Wine ...