How do wineries prepare for a visiting critic? Correspondence has surfaced from a regional association to the wineries entitled “Urgent: winery participation in Jay Miller’s visit.” The total sum sought from wineries was €29,000 ($40,000). Tickets to all events cost $2,600 per attendee. MORE >>

Donald Trump has purchased Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard in Virginia for the terroir , saying, “I’m really interested in good real estate.&#. Er, wait. He added that he’s not so interested in wine. He continues: “This place had a $28 million mortgage on it, and I bought it for $6.2 million. It’s a Trump deal!”. American wine MORE >>

For one, if critics purchased the wines they reviewed at retail stores instead of tasting at the winery, that would provide a strong incentive to tighten controls in the wine supply chain. What do you think–how much wine outside the winery is cooked, if even a little? These muggy days in the high 90s have New Yorkers sweltering. MORE >>

Contacted via email, Lori Tieszen, executive director of Wines of Chile USA, says that Jose Manuel Ortega reports “devastation&# in Maule and that his winery sustained some damage; Julio Bouchon of J. Bouchon, “is safe but his beautiful old winery is leveled,&# Tieszen writes. Millions of liters on the floor.&# MORE >>

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