By Gus Clemens
You may not be able to judge a book by its cover, but you can tell a bit about wine by its bottle. Continue reading “Bottle Shapes”
Category: Recent Columns
Bottle Punt
By Gus Clemens
We all know punt is what a football team does when it fears it cannot make first down on fourth down, but what’s the deal with that dimple in bottom of a bottle (officially called a “punt” or a “kick up”)? Continue reading “Bottle Punt”
Bottle Colors
By Gus Clemens
Ninety-nine bottles of wine on the wall, ninety-nine bottles of wine. Take one down, pass it around, ninety-eight bottles of wine on the wall.
If there are that many bottles, chances are very good they are different shapes and colors. Why? Continue reading “Bottle Colors”
Avoiding Wine Embarrassment
By Gus Clemens
Those of us who prefer wine imagine we are superior to people who enjoy spirits or beer.
It does not reflect well on us, but it has been true since Greeks spread wine culture seven millennia ago. The disposition to be obnoxious about our chosen libation is part of our cultural DNA. Continue reading “Avoiding Wine Embarrassment”
Labor Day 2014
Labor Day falls this year on the first day of September. It can’t get any earlier, which means it won’t be fall for three weeks and we will experience the longest, most summery Labor Day possible. Continue reading “Labor Day 2014”
Bottle Age
Pantheonic wine authorities-Robert Parker, Wine Spectator, Jancis Robinson, Stephen Tanzer, et al – sometimes pontificate a wine “will deliver greatest pleasure after 10-to-20 years in bottle.” Continue reading “Bottle Age”
Wine Numbers
Whatever you may think of them, wine scores helped make U.S. the world’s top wine consuming country. Continue reading “Wine Numbers”
Internet Extortion
We already know, thanks to human nature, the internet can be wonderful, the greatest communications tool since Gutenberg played around with type. It also can be a savagely cruel and ruthlessly greedy place. Continue reading “Internet Extortion”
Investment wine
Odds are really good you do not have a significant part of your net worth or nest egg squirreled away in investor-grade wine gracefully aging in a bonded, certified cellar. But if you did, how would you have done? Continue reading “Investment wine”
Summer time
Summertime and the living is easy. It also is really hot. What is a wine drinker to do? Continue reading “Summer time”