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Mike Veseth is editor of The Wine Economist and author of more than a dozen books including Wine Wars (2011) and Around the World in Eighty Wines (2018). Follow this site and find information on wine, wines, wine books, wine blog, wine markets, global wine, global wines, wine lover, book reviews, wine trade.
The Wine Economist
3d ago
Stereotypes are powerful things because they shape the way we perceive reality even when we know they differ from what we see with our own eyes. That was the message of Saul Steinberg’s famous 1976 New Yorker magazine cover, “The View of the World from 9th Avenue.” It is important to have occasional attitude checks to ..read more
The Wine Economist
2w ago
The Wine Economist will pause for a few days and return in early 2025. Sue and I wish all our reader friends a warm holiday season and a bright new year. Sue is curious about what wines you are serving for the holidays. Are you willing to share your selections — or those you are ..read more
The Wine Economist
3w ago
Wine made from Cabernet Franc is generally paler, lighter, crisper, softer, and more obviously aromatic than that of its progeny, Cabernet Sauvignon. This is how the authors of Wine Grapes, my standard reference, describe Cabernet Franc. Sounds great, doesn’t it? So it is a bit of a surprise that Cabernet Franc’s place in French wine ..read more
The Wine Economist
1M ago
The arc of the Italian wine industry bends towards quality in the 21st century, something that has become increasingly clear to Sue and me as we have visited many of Italy’s important wine regions in recent years. Quality has not always been Italian wine’s guiding star, however. Piero Antinori’s 2014 book The Hills of Chianti ..read more
The Wine Economist
1M ago
The International Organization of Wine & Vine (OIV) is celebrating its 100th year in 2024. I like to think of the OIV as the United Nations of the wine world although its purpose is scientific and technical, not political. Membership includes most of the world’s most important wine-producing nations with the noteworthy exception of the ..read more
The Wine Economist
1M ago
Reviews of two books that provide very different lessons about wine today. Enrico Bernardo, Wine & Travel Italy (Assouline, 2024). And now for something completely different. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Pascaline Lepeltier’s new book, One Thousand Vines. It is a big, beautiful book that is really about thinking (and maybe sometimes ..read more
The Wine Economist
1M ago
“LVMH Bets on Booze-Free Bubbles at $100-Plus a Bottle” was the Wall Street Journal headline. The story, which you may have read when it came out last month, is that luxury goods conglomerate LVMH was buying a 30 percent stake in a (luxury) non-alcoholic wine start-up called French Bloom. The new NA wine boasts both ..read more
The Wine Economist
2M ago
Pascaline Lepeltier, One Thousand Vines: A New Way to Understand Wine (Mitchel Beazley, 2024). Beautifully illustrated by Loan Nguyen Thanh Lan. First published in France in 2022 as Mille Vignes (Hachette Livre). There are different ways to taste wine depending upon your purpose. There is tasting simply to enjoy the wine, which is different from ..read more
The Wine Economist
2M ago
There is a lot of work to do to restore wine to the place (in the market, in society) that many of us believe it deserves. Here in America, for example, we have recently concluded the successful launch of Come Over October, a program that seeks to replace the image of wine as dangerous alcohol ..read more
The Wine Economist
2M ago
A cynic, according to Oscar Wilde, knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. For some reason, this characterization is often associated with “dismal science” economists like me. Today’s Wine Economist column hopes to make an exception to Wilde’s rule by focusing on wine’s value problem and how understanding it can help explain ..read more