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We have touched on this before, but some recent encounters brought it to front of mind again, so we thought we would share some what we believe to be hard truths about the business of selling wine.

As we have noted on this page several times before, wine goes through fashions. From broad trends such as the rise of American wines’ share of the pie compared to imported wine, to the drop of Merlot sales due to a movie, to dry French rosés, to many, many others.

We have addressed on these pages previously the sometimes-confusing terms of Organic Wine, Natural Wine, Biodynamic Wine, Sustainable Wine, not to mention the new discipline of ‘Regenerative Viticulture’ (which is its own rabbit hole).

Italy’s best wines have rightly earned their spot in the upper levels of the world’s most collectible wines. Though there is a long list of Italian wines that can compete on the world stage, it is Barolo, Brunello, and Bolgheri that make everyone’s list of Italy’s top wines.

As Wine Geek ages—gracefully, like a fine wine—He has noticed many of his friends are downright old. The good news is old friends have old wines in their cellars. Add to this, most wine lovers we know like to share their wines, so good for us!

We have now been proudly selling Riedel Crystal for 8 years. We sincerely feel that during that time, we have helped enhance scores of beverage programs in countless restaurants—not just with wine glasses, but with cocktail programs as well (if you’ve not looked at their ‘Drink Specific Glassware’ you should).

We mentioned on these pages not long ago that just when one thinks they have a firm grasp on the rules & regs…they change the rules! A new designation for Chianti Classico is the latest curveball.

Geek was standing near the cold box in one of our favorite Michigan wine shops last week when a patron strolled in and asked: ‘do you have any cold Sancerre?’ We replied: ‘not sure, let’s see’. There was indeed a chilled Sancerre there, but it was $55 and apparently above her budget

Geek recently described a wine to a young acquaintance, saying something like: ‘lean, but balanced overall’ and their reply was ‘you wine geeks and your wine speak; tell me in English’. We were sorta surprised: we thought that was English.