• Top selling restaurant wines: Restaurant News has released its 2007 list of the best-selling wines in U.S. restaurants, and there aren’t a lot of surprises. The top five are Kendall-Jackson Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay, Beringer Vineyards White Zinfandel, Cavit Pinot Grigio, Sutter Home White Zinfandel, and Inglenook Chablis. I’m going to write more about this, but what’s worth noting now is that there are only two red wines in the top 20: Yellow Tail shiraz at No. 9 and Blackstone merlot at 20.
• Australians take their wine seriously: An Aussie grape grower plotted to blow up a rival winery when they reduced their payments to grape growers. The grower, Steven Bergamin, hired a private nvestigator and an undercover policeman to do the job, using a remote-controlled device so he could watch from a distance. He was given a suspended sentence.
• Wine Curmudgeon at GrapeFest: Those of you in the Dallas area can see me at 11:15 a.m. on Friday, when I talk about how to taste wine. It’s titled “Wine tasting 101: Or "How to Spit and Swish Without Making a Mess." GrapeFest, of course, is one of the largest regional wine events in the country, and its People’s Choice tasting is unique – wine drinkers are allowed to make up their own minds, without any help from people like me.
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