Wine Wars: The Curse of the Blue Nun, the Miracle of Two Buck Chuck, and the Revenge of the Terroirists

Old World or New? Well, both—a harder sell. Focus on regions or grapes (or both)? That requires a substantial sustained education program.

in pricing, “what you get for X RMB in a Portuguese wine is better than what you get for X RMB in a French wine.”

Riesling is thought to be a wine that most particularly captures the essence of the time and place.

If the particular qualities of a kind of wine are not very obvious, you may run into several “lemons”—wines that don’t suit your taste (no matter how good they might be in their own way)—on your way to a wine you really like.

watch Mondovino,

seen as a “value” fine wine and avoid the cheap and anonymous bulk wine trap.

traditional glass bottle and natural cork is the break bulk cargo of today’s wine world—traditional, accepted, inefficient, and doomed.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Parker is often cited as the most influential wine critic

need education before they are comfortable embracing wine.