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A Thanksgiving Message of Wine and the Usefulness of Celebrity

Wine Spectator and the Generational Divide in Making "Best Of" Wine Lists

What Happens When Consumers Ask for Change to Alcohol Shipping Laws

DEI Comes to "Best Of" Wine Lists...And It Works

Four More Years

Channeling Your Election Action Into Wine Industry Action

The Presidential Election Night Drinking Game

Great Writing, Great Thinking, AI, and Wine

An Ideal and Challenging Bev Industry Position Just Opened Up

Mass Wine Wholesaler Layoffs Signal a Need for Change

The 2024 Willamette Valley Harvest and the Question of Weather

Wine Will Come Back Because We Seek The Genuine in Life

What Defines A "Healthy" Winery?

Becoming an Authority on the Question of Whether Wine is Safe To Consume

Stop: Do Not Write that Guide To Pairing Wine with Halloween Candy

Can the Wine Industry Muster the Will To Push Back on Propaganda?

Federal Court Rules Discriminatory Wine Distribution Law Unconstitutional

Wine Can Help Solve the Loneliness Epidemic

How Wine Companies Can Influence Few and Accumulate Enemies

Wine Writers Taking on World Affairs

Proposing the Most Draconian Assault On Wine in Decades

On Alcohol and Cancer—Be Happy, You're Gonna Be Just Fine

How To Get that Winery Job When Nepotism is Not an Option

Oregon Health Authority Libels Oregon's Beer, Wine, Cider and Spirits Producers

Erica Duecy: The Ramble

This Is How You Chip Away At the Irrelevant Three-Tier System

Podcasts Will Save Wine

THOSE People...!!

The Best Wine Movie Ever Made

You've Got a Big Decision to Make—Time to Open that Bottle and Decide

New World Laissez-Faire Winemaking Is Changing Old World Wine

Wine as a Diplomatic Tool in Ukraine's War with Russia

Federal Campaign Contributions and the Alcohol industry in 2024

The Recent NY Spirits Shipping Bill is Both a Travesty and a Step in the Right Direction

Authoritarian Karens and the Fight-Back by Wine

Yellowstone and Kevin Costner Provide the Answers to Wine's Woes

A Lesson on Nature vs Nurture in Sonoma Valley

Telling the Story of the Damage Inflicted Upon the Alcohol Industry

The State of Predatory Wholesaling in the American Alcohol Industry

"Get your d’Yquem. Get your DRC...I've got your d'Yquem and DRC!"

Recent DtC Report's Enlightening Details

Wine In An Age of Humiliation

It's Time For "Prime Wine"

Would You Give Up Wine For a Handful More Days of Life?

Shall We Ban Minors From Drinking Non-Alcohol Drinks?

In the Wine Biz, We All Have the Same Job

It's the Greatest Short Term Threat to the American Wine Industry

The "Chevron Doctrine" is Overturned. What It Means For Wine Lawsuits

Wine Marketing Strategy: Scold Consumers and Tell Them They're Dumb

The Continuing Evolution of the Wine Media

The Structural and Transitory Changes to the Wine Industry

The Indispensable Curators of Wine News

Alcohol Reform for the 21st Century

How To Dismantle the Anti-Alcohol Narrative

The Wholesalers' $100 Million Investment in the Three-Tier System

Spirits Shipping Coming to New York: Does It Matter the Law is Unconstitutional?

The Arc of the Alcohol Universe is Long, But Bends Toward Free Trade

Southern-Glazers Has A Really Bad Week

"Play More Golf" Is Rarely the Correct Answer to Wine's and Life's Challenges

Wine Interviews and a Fear of Public Speaking

Patriotic Wine for Memorial Day

Source Says Feds Will Declare "No Amount of Alcohol" is Healthy

A Return to Moon Mountain

The Conference Is Aimed At Killing the Wine Industry

The 8 Changes Coming to Wine in the U.S

Moral Panic and Hysterical Alarmism of State Alcohol Regulators

The Best Five Days of My Wine Industry Year

5 Macro Trends and Their Potential Impact on the Wine Marketplace

The Manchurian Candidate Comes to Wine & Spirits

Buy This Book Then Give 100 Copies Away

How Wine Can Save Youth from the Loneliness Epidemic

How I learned to Love the Three-Tier System By Watching a Screen

Cannabis and its Tools Are Coming After Wine

The Necessary Lament

The Origins of the Three-Tier System

The Memo on Natural Wine

Six Costly Ways to Play With The Big Boys In the Wine, Beer and Spirits Space

Embrace the Bad Wine News

Thirty-Five Things I've Learned in 35 Years of Working in Wine

On Wine Sales: It's Just a Matter of Getting the Kids to Listen to Their Elders

Southern Glazers Happily Pays Millions to Maintain Status as Alcohol's Largest Mediocrity

The Ancient Game Is Afoot and It's Wine's Turn

Google's AI Just Made Up a Supreme Court Decision About Wine Shipping

What If...? A Question or Two About Natural Wine

Baseball and the Wine Enthusiast's Bucket List

Tools of the American Alcohol Industry #135

The Oregon Health Authority Lied and Can't Be Trusted on Issues of Alcohol and Taxes

The New Flight to Oregon Wine Country

Wine has a "Fog of Science" Problem

How to Evaluate Proposed Alcohol Laws

Take a Drink of Sancerre if They Pan to Taylor Swift

Update On Fiasco Over Oregon Alcohol Taxes

DtC Wine Shipping—In Decline, Back To Normal Or Something Else?

The Importance of Inebriation

How the State of Oregon Deceived Everyone About Alcohol Taxes and Over Consumption

The Pope, Taylor Swift and Wine's Publicist Walk into a Bar...

The Inappropriate, Inaccurate, and Misleading Use of language to Malign Wine, Beer & Spirits

It Could Be the Best Wine Book of 2024

How Wine Can Survive the 2024 Election

Wine No More: The U.S. Government’s Coming Attack on Wine and How To Fight Back

"The Deeply F*cked Up Three-Tier System"

How The State of Oregon Plans to Kill Off Its Wine Industry

How To Stay Informed on Wine Trends in 2024