Throughout New York, the 59 wine retailers are organizing in-store tastings and educational sessions on the wines of Sud de France. Yet well over a dozen journalists did just that on May 4th to celebrate the start of the Sude de France Festival. Next on the list was Casimir, another quaint wine bar, and Fada. ABOUT SUD DE FRANCE. MORE >>

“We want to introduce the girls and their friends to good wines and their complexity, and educate them to develop an interest in the making of the wines rather than them seeing wine as something that you knock back in the summer holidays without thinking.&# SIPPED: number crunching. WS editor Tom Matthews responds to the research. MORE >>

It was a fantastic education. spent fourteen years in financial services in a variety of marketing and business development roles in both the traditional asset management and alternative asset industries. We will be much more active in educational events that bring consumers closer to wine. His unedited replies follow below. MORE >>

BW : No, not just the industrial ones, genetically modified yeasts. PW : I want to find a way to communicate more effectively, to create educational opportunities. want to create more opportunities like this to showcase the kind of wines we believe in and to help educate people. BW : It's a generational change. BW : Yes. MORE >>

Between 2001 and 2006, the number of sports fans who regularly tailgate has risen by 12% annually, making tailgating a multi-billion dollar industry. The majority of tailgaters are college educated. While recuperating from another ulcer problem, I've been doing very little on the blog and less on the wine tasting. And the West Coast? MORE >>