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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Vanity, thy name is Wine Spectator
Wine Spectator believes that we are so intensely interested in its “Top 100 Wines of 2007” that it has launched a Top Ten Countdown all this week. That’s right — the magazine “revealed” its picks for wines number 10 and 9 on Monday; 8 and 7 will be “revealed” today; 6 and 5 on Wednesday; 4, 3 and 2 on Thursday (THREE selections! Be still my beating heart!); and … the number 1 Wine of the Year on Friday.
Gosh, I’ll have to wear my Depends that day. The excitement and anticipation may be too much.
Oh, but that’s not all. The Spectator also offers us videos of its editors explaining why each wine in the top 10 were chosen.
Does this strike anyone else as just a teensy bit presumptuous on the Spectator’s part?
Perhaps those in the wine industry who have a dog in this hunt are sitting around on pins and needles awaiting this Grand Proclamation.
For the rest of us, I somehow suspect this doesn’t quite rise to the level of whether black smoke or white smoke belches from the tower at the Vatican.
But I also suspect the Spectator doesn’t realize that.
Cheers!
Mark Fisher
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$1 billion deal rocks the wine industry
Okay, I’m rounding up, but not much. The $885 million sale of Fortune Brands’ U.S. wine business to Constellation Brands involves some brands you just might have heard of — Clos du Bois, Geyser Peak, Wild Horse, Buena Vista Carneros and Gary Farrell, among others.
Constellation — which owns wine brands such as Almaden, Inglenook, Robert Mondavi Woodbridge, Monkey Bay, Ravenswood, RH Phillips, Toasted Head, Hogue, and many, many more — bills itself as the “largest maker of wine by volume in the world.”
Guess it just got a little bigger.
Any thoughts on whether this is a good thing or a bad thing? What impact might it have on us consumers?
Cheers!
Mark Fisher
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