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Donald St. Pierre: wine’s gateway to China?

Donald St. Pierre, an American and a prominent importer of wine to China, receives an extensive profile in the current issue of the New Yorker. He arrived in the country in 1985 thanks to a position with American Jeep and in 1996 he started importing wines after forays into other things such as s...

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Dr Vino's wine blog — 17 hours ago

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Beyond Thunderdome: on Gary Vee’s Wine Library TV

When Gary Vaynerchuk asked me on the “thunder show” I was afraid. Not of him because he’s an entrepreneur, wine retailer, dynamo, and internet phenom. No, I was afraid he would make me eat dirt. In the end, that didn’t happen and there was nothing to fear. Not only is Ga...

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Dr Vino's wine blog — Before yesterday

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Wine education: Italy and US compared [pictures]

I recently posted about a pamphlet that our six-year-old son brought home from school equating wine and pot. A friend living in the Veneto, Italy writes in with this comparison: I thought I would share the work that our son brought home from his Montessori pre-school today: filastrocca del vino...

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Dr Vino's wine blog — 3 days ago

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Department of Greenwashing: Ceci La Luna lambrusco

Are some in the wine trade exploiting consumers’ willingness for environmentally friendly products when the practices don’t measure up to more than a pile of manure? Consider an example. In late summer, The Moment blog at nytimes.com wrote a paean to lambrusco, the purple fizzy wine f...

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Dr Vino's wine blog — 4 days ago

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WSJ: wine-rating system is badly flawed

Saturday’s WSJ catches up with Robert Hodgson’s research on the randomness of gold medals in wine competitions. In case you missed our discussion here and many others on them there internets, you can check out the WSJ article for a recap. The story also applies the discussion to wine ...

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Dr Vino's wine blog — 5 days ago

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Advertorial, 7-11, chocolate milk, freer trade – sipped and spit

SIPPED: the hard question; SPIT: advertorial During what looked like an innocuous segment on Thanksgiving wines, Evan Dawson, a local TV news anchor, asks Leslie Sborcco, wine book author and TV host, some tough questions. And they’re not about the turkey. Tune in to about 1:50 when he asks...

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Dr Vino's wine blog — November 13