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Book Review: Wine’s Global History
Kathleen Burk, Wine: A Global History (Basic Books, 2026). Kathleen Burk has written a big book (almost 600 pages) on an even bigger topic, the global history of wine. It is an impressive achievement that will please casual readers and reward detailed study. It is sure to become…
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Wine Book Reviews: Maps, Menus, and Much, Much More
Brief reviews of two very different new wine books. The World Atlas of Wine (9th edition) by Hugh Johnson, Jancis Robinson, and Julia Harding. Mitchell Beazley. The 9th edition of The World Atlas of Wine is released today and it is an event worth celebrating. Much has changed in…
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Wine Economist Mike Veseth to Keynote 2027 Unified Wine & Grape Symposium
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 14, 2026 — As the wine industry navigates changing consumer demand, shifting global markets and continued economic pressures, Mike Veseth will take the stage as keynote speaker at the 2027 Unified Wine & Grape Symposium, offering his full outlook after…
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What’s Up with Wine? The Sky’s the Limit. Nota Bene September 2026
Nota Bene is a periodic Wine Economist column that briefly highlights stories that might otherwise escape attention. This month we focus on good news stories about wine and wine markets. This isn’t an attempt to paper over the industry’s troubles and challenges. It is important…
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Drinking Alone (and its Discontents)
Robert Putnam’s 2000 best-selling book Bowling Alone painted a dark picture of modern society. Putnam saw Americans as less and less connected to social institutions and to each other. The stark image of the lone bowler is difficult to forget. A quarter century later, the image…
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Costco and Global Wine Revisited
Sue and I recently visited our local Costco warehouse store and paused to peruse the wine aisle. We were frankly amazed at the selection we found there. It isn’t just that the prices were very good (that’s not news at Costco, where customers pay an annual membership fee). The…
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Wine in the Season of the Spritz
Doesn’t it seem like this has been the summer of the spritz? It’s a trend that has been gathering steam for a while and this year it feels like everywhere we look we see spritz, spritz, spritz. Time for a Hydration Break? And it really shouldn’t come as a surprise because the…
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Wine Book Review: Impossible Place Meets Improbable People
Forged in Fire: An Impossible Place meets Improbable People by Michael F. Spratt. Available from Amazon.com. and Mary Egan Publishing. Michael and Ann Spratt planted their first vines on Waiheke Island in 2000, and so the unlikely story of Destiny Bay Wine began. They didn’t…
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It’s Not Easy Being Pink
Sue and I have been sampling some interesting Rosé wines from France and this got us to thinking about the challenges and opportunities for pink wines in today’s market. Here is our report. (Click here to read an earlier survey of the Rosé market.) Anatomy of the Pink Wine…
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Wine vs Coffee: Thinking Like Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan was famous for many things, most of all because of his long tenure as chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Economists like me remember Greenspan for his deep knowledge and understanding of economic data down to the micro-level. He…