2007 Dominus Pre Arrival Deal

Last week Wired for Wine delivered a sweet deal on 1990 Chateau Latour.  Here, they are following on with another quality wine, 2007 Dominus, and at a really attractive retail price of $117.97 and free shipping on a minimum of two bottles.  If it looks interesting to you, move quickly since they sell only one [...]

Wine Makers and Mortgage Makers Reverse Greedy Paths

I recoiled and pushed away the crystal stemware wondering if some savory syrup was masquerading as wine, and that maybe its destiny was to spread like jam on slices of peanut butter slathered Wonder Bread.  This sensory collision with high alcohol and unrestrained ripeness was triggered a few years back cracking open a 2005 Mollydooker The Boxer screw top, a wine Robert Parker awarded 95 points to [...]

Take Poll and Weigh In On Future High-End Wine Economy

Take a second, look to the right of your screen,  and share your own thoughts on what it takes for you to spend $50+ on high-end wines at retail.  With the preliminary findings report from Silicon Valley Bank’s Wine Division (see recent post Wine Sales Stink and the World is Not Flat) underscoring the massive swing in growth rates that has [...]

Wine Sales Stink and The World is Not Flat

In Silicon Valley Bank’s recently released Preliminary Findings Report (you won’t get a recap of all the details here, save a few,  so click on the link and download the PDF if you are so inclined) which precedes their more exhaustive Spring 2010-2011 Annual State of the Wine Industry Report, the Bank’s opening salvo declared; The [...]

Mendoza Monday: Focus on Wines of the Uco Valley

John and family recently returned to the US following a year-long Life-Zag in and around Mendoza (with a separate story Side-Zag to Barcelona).  Carrying back a souvenir passion for great Argentine wines and epic grilling sessions, I ended up in a subterranean space in his barely decorated new home in Needham, MA this past Monday to taste through a wide range of wines [...]

Wine Economics: A Consumer and Critic Weigh In

I have been in a digital desert for the last week, dealing with computer problems compounded by a stretch of travel without a laptop.  Please excuse the brief WineZag siesta and take a quick few steps back with me to follow up on a  previous WineZag post on runaway Bordeaux prices getting in the way of reasonable [...]

Wine Discounts: Navigating the Email Jungle

I paused early this morning, scanning the middle third of the countless daily emails from preferred wine retailers that stared at me in unread boldface headlines hawking discounts worthy of  going-out-of-business sales.  Bin Ends Wine shop, a shrewd on and off-line wine monger with a uniquely well defined quality and value formula, was offering the 2001 Mauro Vendimia Seleccionada for $40 in three-pack buys.  I [...]

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