Daily Wine News: Unexpected Outcomes

Robert Dahl

A bitter, multimillion-dollar dispute between Napa Valley vintner Robert Dahl and investor Emad Tawfilis ended in a murder-suicide on Monday, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.

Mike Veseth, the wine economist, explains how the U.S. and Canada accidentally destroyed wine. (Whoops!)

Ray Isle offers “An Insider’s Guide to Outsmarting Burgundy Collectors” in Food & Wine. “Sometimes, when I think about Burgundy and my love for this wonderful and frustrating wine, I’m tempted to do one of those pro and con charts”

In Wine Spectator, Matt Kramer says that expectation and experience can limit the enjoyment of a “wine of pleasure.”

“Argentina needs to look beyond Malbec in order to avoid commoditizing its flagship grape,” Alberto Arizu, former president of Wines of Argentina and chief executive of Bodega Luigi Bosca, told Harpers.

Dustin Wilson, who stars in the documentary Somm, shares some of his favorite new wineries in Maxim.

In Grape Collective, Christopher Barnes chats with Victor Coulon of Domaine de Beaurenard in Châteauneuf-du-Pape.

Jonathan Lipsmeyer has an “exquisite dance” with head sommelier Aurélien Masse at Frenchie in Paris during a blind tasting dinner.

The Drinks Business interviews Tim Hanni MW.

SOURCE: Terroirist: A Daily Wine Blog – Read entire story here.