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Commented Jan 8, 2013 on Imbibe Mag's wine person of the year? Me. at The Feiring Line
Imbibe Mag's wine person of the year? Me.
I hope you don't mind this sharing. But I was really stunned and honored when Imbibe magazine chose me as their wine person of the year. And so a little love doesn't come by that often, I had to post. There's more on their FB page and website, but this is a profile, I'll definitely cherish. Than...
I would argue that a lack of definition for what is "natural" in the wine world is helpful for this movement: It allows the promotion of the "idea" without having to adhere to anything in particular.
On the other hand, it means that anybody can righteously call their wine "natural" and have every legitimate reason to call it "natural" without any fear that their labeling of their wine natural being called into question.
Commented May 7, 2012 on IFOAM: European (non) Organic Wine at The Feiring Line
IFOAM: European (non) Organic Wine
The much awaited report from IFOAM is out. Hold on, industrial organic is coming your way. (Certainly not mine.) Seems to me it means the same thing as made from (industrially farmed) organic grapes. Most of the outraged press has focused on the allowance of sulfur while forgetting to look...
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Out of state wine retailers would happily pay for permits as well as remit state taxes. They do in other states already and the direct shipment of wine from out of state retailers has done nothing to put local retailers out of business.
Commented Oct 27, 2011 on Internet wine purchases pose a clear and present danger to Texas consumers at Austin Contrarian
Internet wine purchases pose a clear and present danger to Texas consumers
Example #29 that Texas, despite its reputation as a hotbed of free-market conservatism, is no such thing. Or at least its Legislature is not. Nor -- perhaps less surpisingly -- is its state bureaucracy: Texas is putting a cork in wine shipments from a significant number of out-of-state retaile...
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