• 20 percent overproduction: Australia’s wineries must cut production by 20 percent or face serious consequences, say some of the country’s top producers. The president of Constellation Wines Australia says one out of five vines needs to be pulled out of the ground. A recent study found that 90 per cent of Australian producers were losing money.
• Wine writing and wine flavors: Blogger J. Tobias Beard says most of us are completely over the top, what with terms like scorched earth, new saddle leather, and white pepper. As Beard notes: “. …white pepper? Isn’t that an album by Ween?” The Wine Curmudgeon, of course, is in complete agreement: Write in English, please.
• CellarTracker hits 10 million bottles: CellarTracker, which the Wine Curmudgeon uses to keep tabs on his wine closet, catalogued its 10 millionth bottle of wine last month. The site is free, and allows me to make tasting notes, track purchases and consumption, and see what others say about wines I have tried. Developer Eric LeVine says it's the largest wine data base in the world.
Many thanks for mentioning Cellar Tracker more than once. I finally had the impulse this time to click onto the site and I absolutely loved it.
Posted by: JP | November 19, 2008 at 01:33 PM