From the category archives:

Wine

Tough love: Wine writer Andrew Jefford’s
take on wine writing and Australian wine

November 24, 2009

One of my favorite wine writers, Andrew Jefford, is halfway through a year as the wine-writer-in-residence at the University of Adelaide, while he researches a book about Australian terroir. On November 10, he delivered a speech—“Falling in Love Again: Australian Wine and the International Press” at the National Wine Centre in Adelaide. The speech is [...]

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French wine television channel under consideration

November 17, 2009

France, the world’s largest exporter of wine in terms of value (it’s behind Italy and Spain in volume), and also the world’s biggest consumer of wine, has a slightly schizophrenic relationship with wine. On the one hand, you cannot separate France from wine. The baguette-cheese-wine picnic is the ultimate French cliché. On the other hand, [...]

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TONG: A new kind of wine magazine

November 5, 2009

Launching a magazine in difficult economic times is risky enough. Print publications in general are under pressure from the Internet, making such an exercise even more difficult. Even such venerable titles as Gourmet Magazine (around for 70 years) are closing. So it seems an inauspicious time to launch a new international wine magazine, but that [...]

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