Daily Wine News: Wise Investments
Not such a “dumb investment” after all (Wikimedia)
In Wine Searcher, W. Blake Gray looks at how Cakebread – an Oakland garage owner’s “dumb investment” – turned into one of America’s favorite wines.
“2013 was not the easiest of vintages in Alsace,” says Panos Kakaviatos in Harpers. But “it is really hard to go wrong with Zind Humbrecht in 2013.”
An unusual proposal from the Tax & Trade Bureau (TTB) would allow wines to be labeled with the grapes’ AVA of origin, if “fully finished” in an adjacent state. Who would benefit? Jane Firstenfeld investigates in Wines & Vines.
In Palate Press, Roger Morries shares his thoughts about “Provence’s failure thus far to distinguish itself as a premium wine region.”
“Can a new Cava classification win over consumers?” asks Amy Wislocki in Decanter.
In Travel + Leisure, Bruce Schoenfeld visits the “pristine” winemaking villages outside Vienna.
On the blog for First Vine, Tom Natan visits Castilla-La Mancha and finds that the region has much more to offer than stories about Don Quixote. “At least for the moment there’s an international spotlight on CLM, and the question now is whether the region’s wine can sustain the attention.”
VinePair made animated relief maps of the famous wine regions in France, Italy, Germany, and Spain.
In the Drinks Business, a wine investment firm tracked the varied fortunes of 2005 Bordeaux and, with Robert Parker set to revisit the vintage, considers the impact of any upward re-evaluation.
Mike Dunne attends a blind tasting of American Rieslings in the Sacramento Bee.
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