ve got no money or no space in the cellar or whatever, I’m just going to miss it.”. remember I told someone who was doing a trend alert for TIME magazine and we were on the phone, and I was riffing, and said “Champagne is the last place in the wine world where you can watch the proletariat taking back the means of production.” Great. MORE >>

Canadian wines can contain 70% imported wine and still say “cellared in Canada&# on the label. In a reversal of a recent trend, they report that imported wines dropped 1.8 %, while domestics rose 1.9%. SPIT: big oaky monsters. Wine importer Kermit Lynch: “I think we have two kinds of wine markets today. The response was enormous. MORE >>

forwarded it to Levi Dalton , a trend-setting sommelier and has been shining an orange light in the wine world for at least a couple of years now. usually serve orange wines at cellar temp (55 degrees F) and let the bottle warm up on the table from there. Orange wines are sweeping the nation! Well, something like that. Try it out! MORE >>

John Gilman, author of the newsletter The View from the Cellar , joins us again for a Q&A. For the short answer is that some of these trends are really very good for the overall quality of the wines, while with others, either the jury is still out or the early returns are not especially positive in my opinion. think not. MORE >>

am certainly not the person you should look to for the latest news in Champagne, but it seems to me as though there is a trend towards single-vineyard wines, particularly among young producers. After lots of tasting in the cellar we were back in the comfortable and warm reception room, tasting through the current lineup of wines. MORE >>