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Five New Year's Wishes for Wine

The Three Reforms

Jeff Siegel: The Ramble

Gen X, Cannabis, Millennials and the Future of Wine

Research and Discovery Yield Ancient Insight Into History of Wine

The Court Rules Against Teaching Wine History

The Top 5 Wine News Stories of 2023

Bringing the 2024 Wine Industry Into Focus

The Message of Repeal Day: We Can Do Better

A Leap Down the Rabbit Hole of Utah's Deeply Crazy (and kinda Fascist) Wine Laws

The Impact of Weight-Loss Drugs on Wine Consumption

The Fringe vs The Mainstream of Wine

Wine and the Clash of Civilizations

"I’ll be fun…right?”

A Review of 11 Lawsuits Challenging Discriminatory State Alcohol laws

The Project to DeColonize and Diversify Wine's Lexicon

The Unforgiven Wine

Dear Bruce...Here's Your Answer

How To Combat The Effort to Kill Off The American Wine Industry

My Brute Force Strategy for Addressing Legal Issues in the Alcohol World

A Corner of the Wine Industry Stands Up

There's A New Method of Stealing Wine

Could I Be Any Prouder of the Wine Industry?

Israel, Gaza, Wine and the West

Jumping the Shark—The Wine Version

Wine and the Pleasure Calculation

Indications Younger Consumers Have Increased interest in Wine and Other Alcohol

The Mondavi Defense

Virginia Alcohol Laws Continue to Spit in the Face of the Supreme Court

Wine = Cigarettes

For Beer, Wine and Spirits, It's 1781 All Over Again

Can a Candidate For President Get Away with Praising a $20,000 Bottle of Wine?

Making Sure the Real Wine Gatekeepers Are In The Crosshairs

The Presidential Campaign Is Underway...Can I Get Another?

The Greying of American Wine is Upon Us

How Alcohol Regulators Become Tools of Wholesalers

Is The U.S. Government Prepared to Put Small Wineries, Brewers and Distillers Out of Business?

Tipping on Wine and Sandwiches

What's Behind The Recent Spate of Alcohol Self-Distribution Lawsuits?

It's Beer Over the Finish Line First, Follow Closely by Spirits, with Wine Taking Up the Rear

Greed-Governed Philistines Dismiss the Needs of the Human Spirit Fulfilled With Wine

A $400 million Contraction in Wine Sales is Coming

Substituting Thoughtfulness for Defensiveness

Good Intentions Can't Trump Fairness

The Three-Tier System is Small...and Misunderstood

The Kleptocratic State of Texas and Alcohol Law

Expectations Great and Small

Culture and its Impact on Wine: CREDENTIALISM

The Five Stages of Wine Geekdom

The Coming Road Trip

How the Willamette Valley Changed My Perspective—Entirely

Reading on Drinking on the Fourth of July

The Immigrant Grape and the American Stew

The Cringe Reflex and Alcohol Politics

Still Ignoring the Supreme Court Four Years Later

Taking the Stand in Defense of Wine Shipping

Joe Fattorini: The Ramble

Greed and Wine: A History

When Alcohol Regulators and the Industry Meet Inertia Calls the Shots

The American Wine Media Has Failed Their Audience

It May Be Too Late To Make New York Safe For Wine Consumers

Dear Subscriber: Here Are Your Wines

The Conservative Case For Wine

The Progressive Case for Wine

The Data Is Clear that a Three-Tier System is Anti-Competitive

The Fundamental Issues With States Controlling the Sale of Wine and Spirits

The Devaluation of Human Creativity Will Impact Wine Too

Celebrating the Union that Saved a Man From Mediocrity

The Revolution Will Not Be Sipped

Come Mr. Tax Man, Tax Me Pinot Noir

The Argument

Wisconsin Is Right—Fourteen Should be the New Alcohol Server Age

A Chip in Alcohol's Three-Tier System is Chiseled Away

The Only Hope For Small and Medium Three-Tier Wine Brands is Technology

Alcohol Industry Survey Gets the Answers it Wants

California Wineries Should Work To End The State's Discriminatory Wine Law

How Does the Wine Industry Find Diversity For Its Workforce?

Wine Wholesalers' Leader Insults State Regulators in Pursuit of Cannabis Marketplace

The Power of Being Right

Clowning Around With A Classic Beer Brand

The Wine Lexicon Project: A Worthy Pursuit?

The Publicist's Job Is Often to Make the Incomprehensible Understandable

Oregon Could Be Catalyst for Modernizing Beer, Wine and Spirits Regulations

Three-Tier System—the Book—Is Released

Corruption is Baked Into the Alcohol Industry

An Instrumental Man Exits the Wine Industry

You Will Love the Wine, Or Else!

Newsletters, Three-Tiers, The Summit, Native Grapes and Oregon

"What's California Gonna Do About It?"

Divorce—Three-tier System Style

Ending the Three-Tier System: A New Resource

Motivating Consumers to Take the Leap from Cheap to Premium Wine

A Good Death Has Come To Pass

Fermenting Change — The Book

Book Release: Fermenting Change

Surprise Testimony Shows Nevada Wholesale Beer Industry on Verge of Collapse

AMAZON IS COMING FOR ALCOHOL!!!!!!

Court Decides "Gruyere" Is Not "Champagne"

On The Progress of Black Americans in Wine

The Questions That Swirl Around Driving Drunk

Kentucky Takes a Good (But Halfway) Step To Reform Wine Distribution in the State

The Kids Are Alright

On Well Aged Wine and a Taste of the Future

If the Policy Doesn't Put More Money In Wine Wholesalers' Pockets, It's Bad Policy

Oregon: Land of Corruption and Drunkenness?

Love, Wine and the Stream of Time

The Most Intriguing Wine Books of 2023

Social Media and Wine: A Destructive Relationship?

Jim Bernau: The Ramble

The Damage Done by Chasing Virtue

Indigenous American Grapes: Proof of Concept

What We Can Learn From A Celebrity's Foray Into Wine

Top 10 Reasons Wine Is Better Than Beer & Spirits

Wine's Decline: Marketing Idiots or Something Else?

Intelligent, Yet Artificial, Wine Review From Old Friends

Natural Wine: A Tempest in a Really Tiny Teapot

Wine 2023: Batten Down the Hatches or Just Find Your Slicker?

NO!

Can We Trust The Wine Media?

A Plea to Wine Critics and Reviewers