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Cheap Wine of the Year 2023 shortlist
New Year’s sparkling wine 2022
Wine of the week: Cote Mas Cremant de Limoux Brut NV
Winebits 780: Three-tier, cheap wine, “overrated” wine
Mini-reviews 164: The woe to availability edition – and just in time for Christmas
Wine of the week: Naia Verdejo 2020
Winebits 779: Sherry-Lehmann, influencers, Los Angeles wine
It's a Wonderful Wine Life 2022
The Wine Curmudgeon’s favorite posts of 2022
Wine history lesson 7: When drinking alcohol was a good thing
Wine of the week: Flaco Tempranillo 2020
Winebits 778: Artificial intelligence, shipping rates, Star Trek
Expensive wine 163: Domus Aurea Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
Study: Wine drinkers want to know what’s in their wine
Non-alcoholic booze – is it here to stay?
Wine of the week: Honoro Vera Verdejo 2020
Winebits 777: Dog toys, restaurants, Winc
The wine list that doesn’t include the names of the wines
The blog’s holiday, 2023 Hall of Fame, and Cheap Wine of the Year schedule
Wine of the week: McManis Petite Sirah 2020
Winebits 776: Ken Forrester, drunk driving, luxury wine
Winecast 73: Randall Grahm and ingredient labels for wine
Mini-reviews 163: Black Friday edition 2022
Wine of the week: The Wolftrap White 2020
We're one step closer to ingredient labels
Ask the WC 36: Restaurant wine, holiday wine, past vintages
Birthday week essay 2022: There’s practical, and then there’s the wine business
Wine of the week: Scaia Rosata 2021
Winebits 775: Happy 15th birthday to the blog
Five more things the Wine Curmudgeon learned in moving the blog from free to paid
Once more -- with emphasis – we’re not all passed out drunk
Contradictions? We don’t need no stinkin’ contradictions!
Wine of the week: Matchbook Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
Winebits 775: Glass prices, Facebook, Los Angeles wine
Expensive wine 162: 10000 Hours Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
Win the Powerball lottery jackpot -- save the wine business
Wine of the week: Les Deux Moulins 2020
Winebits 774: Taylor Swift, climate change, Drizly
Halloween wine tale 2022: Star Trek: The Wine Generation
Mini-reviews 162: Tabali, Torre de Palma, Amayna, Richard Bocking
A hollow leg: How did Winston Churchill drink all that wine?
Wine of the week: Cantina Cellaro Luma 2019
Winebits 773: Cutting prices, alcohol delivery, weed delivery
Wine review: Patricia Green Dollar Bills Only Pinot Noir 2020
Ask the WC 35: Kroger merger, Fred Franzia, AVAs
Update: Wine prices 2022 – have prices started to drop in time for the holidays?
Wine of the week: Adega Marea Alta Do Zoe 2020
Winebits 772: Montana wine, wine pests, Aztec alcohol god
Wine to drink while you're waiting for fall to arrive
TV wine ads: I’m Brosnan, Pierce Brosnan
Why do wine sales numbers so often disagree?
Wine of the week: Protocolo Tinto 2019
Winebits 771: Lipton, Constellation Brands, viral marketing
Expensive wine 161: Garnier et Fils Petit Chablis 2020
Winecast 72: Denise Clarke and the progress -- and challenges -- for Drink Local
Lawsuit may force feds to add nutrition and ingredient labels to wine
Wine of the week: Falesco Vitiano Bianco 2020
Winebits 770: Wine smuggling, Utah, “affordable” wine
Yes, nutritional labels fit on wine bottles
Wine of the week: Mont Gravet Carignan 2020
Winebits 769: Two-buck Chuck, Coke, hybrid grapes
Mini-reviews 161: The “even more wines that make me cranky” edition
Update: Cutting prices boosts sales, profits
Wine of the week: La Chapelle du Bastion Picpoul 2021
Winebits 768: Wine consumption, back labels, Pix.wine
Can USB Wine solve all of wine’s problems?
One more reason why wine scores are useless, 2022 explanation
Wine of the week: d'Arenberg The Stump Jump Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot Petit Verdot 2019
Winebits 767: Sixty Vines, sommelier cheating scandal, UPS strike?
Expensive wine 160: Vietti Arneis 2021
WC health alert: Beware the Pumpkin Spice Latte
Count ‘em: There’s almost one wine drinking “holiday” for every week of the year
Wine of the week: Rickshaw Sauvignon Blanc 2021
Winebits 966: Calorie labeling, lawsuits, wine retail
Update: Wine availability, and why it makes so many people angry
Wine of the week: Mont Gravet Rose 2021
Winebits 765: $10 wine, wine and sports, doppelgangers
Winecast 71: Paul Tincknell and solving all of wine's problems
Mini-reviews 160: Elena Walch, Spanish monastrell, Jaboulet 45, Titus
Is spitting the dirty secret behind wine’s generation gap?
Wine of the week: Two Birds One Stone 2019
Winebits 764: Low-cal wine, inflation, Trader Joe’s
Japan: Nuts to this abstinence business
Wine and food pairings 17: Pan Bagna
Walmart: An example for the wine business
Wine of the week: Ant Moore Sauvignon Blanc 2021
Winebits 763: Robert Parker, glass bottles, wine history
Follow-up: Gallup alcohol survey 2022
Wine of the week: Barossa Valley Estate GSM 2018
Winebits 762: Bootlegging, convenience store wine, Utah
Expensive wine 159: Les 13 Lunes Apremont 2020
Winecast 70: Ray DelMuro of Refresh Glass and recycling wine bottles
Wine of the week: Protocolo Blanco 2020
Winebits 761: The “It’s all about liquor laws” edition
Update: Ingredient labels and nutrition facts for wine
Ask the WC 34: Wine prices, wildfires, supply chain
No, Vogue, boxed wine hasn’t finally become cool
Wine of the week: Badenhorst The Curator Red 2020
Winebits 760: Wine production, wineburgers, Diana Kennedy
Signs you've been writing about wine for a long time, post-pandemic edition
Mini-reviews 159: The "Four wines that are popular, but I'm not sure why" edition
Annie Green Springs and why nothing is ever new in the wine business
Wine of the week: Shannon Ridge Sauvignon Blanc 2021
Winebits 759: Local Wine Events, glass bottles, smoke taint
How did a once enjoyable cheap Spanish red turn into a wine Popsicle?
Winecast 69: Nick Vorpagel and the dilemma of the independent wine retailer
Wine of the week: Essay Red Blend 2020
Winebits 758: Hot weather, alcohol-free wine, AI wine writing
Expensive wine 158: Sektkellerei Szigeti Brut NV
Wine drinkers to supermarkets: We want better, more affordable wine
Wine of the week: Kono Sauvignon Blanc 2021
Winebits 757: The “it’s all about wine prices” edition
Wine of the week: Our Daily Cab 2020
Winebits 756: Chateau Ste. Michelle, Villa Maria, AVAs
Wine to drink while you're waiting for the avocado pits to sprout
Mini-reviews 158: Cleaning out the wine closet
No, wine business, expensive wine is not better just because it’s expensive
Wine of the week: Vinho verde 2022
Winebits 755: Wine investing, lawsuits, Martha Stewart
When's the last time you heard someone say, "Let's go buy wine in a can"?
Wine history lesson 5: Big Wine's forebear -- the infamous California Wine Association
Wine of the week: Santa Julia Reserva Mountain Blend 2019
Winebits 754: "Healthy" wine, wine etiquette, Coke and booze
Expensive wine 157: Ridge Geyserville 2018
Mega Purple: The natural wine ingredient that no one wants to talk about
Wine of the week: Bonny Doon Picpoul 2021
Winebits 753: Wine foil, younger consumers, drive-thru booze
Wine and food pairings 16: Couscous mushroom sort of risotto
If Robert Parker, why not the Wine Curmudgeon?
What’s next for restaurant wine?
Wine of the week: Domaine de Bel-Air Beaujolais-Villages Les Granits Bleus 2020
Winebits 752: Peter Bell, wine marketing, Brooklyn Bridge
Mini-reviews 157: Even more rose reviews 2022
Wine of the week: La Vieille Ferme Rose 2021
Winebits 751: The “more about wine and health” edition, because everybody’s talkin’ at me
The eighth annual do-it-yourself wine review
Winecast 68: Clara Klein and restaurant wine after the pandemic
“You don’t love our wine? That’s not possible. … we had a meeting about it”
Wine of the week: Domaine de Bernier Chardonnay 2020
Winebits 750: Wine consumption, wine humor, California wine
It’s official: Cheap wine is irrelevant, part III
Are machine-written wine reviews closer than ever?
Wine of the week: Masciarelli Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 2018
Winebits 749: Wine marketing, supply chain woes, 500-year-old wine book
Encork: A better way to close an open wine bottle?
“Prohibition wasn’t a failure”
Wine of the week: El Coto Rioja Rosado 2020
Winebits 748: Paper wine bottles, Champagne lawsuit, wine real estate
Expensive wine 156: Chateau des Jacques Moulin-a-Vent 2018
Ask the WC 33: Wine consumption, bad wine, Earth Day
Wine of the week: Domaine Duffour Cotes de Gascogne 2020
Winebits 747: Ann Pollack, Vinho Verde, ancient wine
Mini-reviews 156: The geeking out edition
It’s official: Cheap wine is irrelevant, part II
Wine of the week: Chateau la Freynelle Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
Winebits 746: “Clean wine,” convenience store wine, three-tier system
What do the neo-Prohibitionists want?
Winecast 67: Felicity Carter on what wine drinkers want
Bring on the non-fungible tokens, baby!
Wine of the week: Jolie Folle Sauvignon Blanc 2020
Winebits 745: Baseball, aluminum bottles, green wine
Expensive wine 155: Olivier Leflaive Bourgogne Blanc Les Sétilles 2018
The history of wine advertising and reaching younger consumers
Wine of the week: Louis Jadot Beaujolais-Villages 2020
Winebits 744: Winery lawsuits, Portuguese wine, neo-Prohibitonists
Wine review: Elk Cove Pinot Gris 2020
Why young people don't like wine
Wine of the week: Marques de Riscal Verdejo 2019
Winebits 743: Local wine, best-selling wine, technology
Can an eight-pack of tiny bottles save the wine business from itself?
Mini-reviews 155: Two Sicilian grillos and two sweet wines
Apparently, wine scores aren't the only rating system that stinks
Wine of the week: Falesco Vitiano Rosso 2018
Winebits 742: Grocery Outlet, lawsuit, non-alcoholic alcohol
Expensive wine 154: Frank Family Merlot 2018
The ZIPZ failure and why it matters to wine drinkers
Is the world ready for Churro wine?
Wine of the week: Ken Forrester Chenin Blanc Petit 2019
Winebits 741: Mafia, wine sales, Utah
It’s official: Cheap wine is irrelevant
Ask the WC 32: Wine prices, wine and health, Ukraine
TV wine ads: Black Box targets younger consumers – but still doesn’t get it right
Wine of the week: Carro Tinto 2019
Winebits 740: Virtual wine tastings, Illinois wine, wine and sugar
Wine history lesson 4: Those damned high prices
Is the $95 Tablas Creek box wine the key to easing out glass bottles?
Winecast 66: Tim McNally and the airline-ization of the wine business
Wine of the week: Marques de Caceres Verdejo 2020
Winebits 739: Brad Pitt, supermarket wine, winery lawsuits
Inflation? What inflation? 10 bottles of wine for $114
Mini-reviews 154: Funckenhausen, aligote, white pinot noir, Domaine Laroque
Do wine drinkers really care about the trends that the marketers say we care about?
Wine of the week: Farnese Fantini Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 2018
Winebits 738: Ste. Genevieve, Kirkland wine, Sutter Home
Artificial intelligence and wine recommendations
A few words about “healthy” wine
Wine of the week: Mont Gravet Côtes de Gascogne 2020
Winebits 727: The “Winestream Media is starting to sound too much like the WC” edition
Expensive wine 153: J. Moreau & Fils Chablis 2019
Welcome to the blog, almost year 2
Feds: Big Wine means less choice and higher prices
Wine of the week: Casa Ferreirinha Esteva 2018
Winebits 736: AI ID checks, restaurant wine, “healthy wine”
"Schitt's Creek" puts a thumb in wine advertising's eye
Wine to drink when you're waiting for an ice storm
Wine of the week: The Seeker Sauvignon Blanc 2020
Winebits 735: The three-tier system is always worth a few giggles edition
Ask the WC 31: Pinot noir, minimum pricing, wine apocalypse
Mini-reviews 153: Tannat, Rioja, and two sauvignon blancs
Wine foolishness, 2022 edition
Wine of the week: McManis Pinot Noir 2019
Winebits 734: Cheap wine, movie wine, wine marketing
Wine and food pairings 15: Southwestern-style stew with guacamole and pico de gallo
SVB report follow-up: What? The wine business worry?
Wine of the week: La Fiera Pinot Grigio 2020
Winebits 733: Robot tractors, subscription wine writing, fake bourbon
Expensive wine 152: 10000 Hours Red Blend 2018
Wine of the week: Moulin de Gassac Guilhem Rouge 2020
Winebits 732: Minimum pricing, wine marketing, Champagne pyramid
Welcome to the fight, Wine Spectator
2022 Cheap Wine of the Year: Scaia Rosato 2020
Wine of the week: Domaine Tariquet Classic 2019
Winebits 731: The “new year is a lot like the old year” edition