• Texas’ top sommelier: June-Ann Rodil of Austin restaurant Uchi was named Texas’ best sommelier at the fifth annual Texas Sommeliers Conference last weekend in suburban Dallas. She beat 20 other young sommeliers in a three-part wine examination that included service, blind tasting, TexSom, as the conference is best known, is one of the most interesting and unique wine events in the country
• Lighter wine bottles: A new wine bottle that looks like an ordinary bottle but weighs almost one-half less, will debut in the British market early next year. The lighter bottle, which has a smaller carbon footprint, has been a goal of the international Waste and Resources Action Programme, dedicated to making wine bottles more environmentally friendly. No word on if and when we’ll see the bottle in the U.S.
• Say goodbye to critter labels: That’s the opinion of Christopher Waters, who writes for the Canadian Sun chain. “Today, most of the so-called ‘critter labels’ are destined for extinction as a new wave of lifestyle labels are introduced,” he says. “Time and money spent on market research and demography surveys could easily equal or, perhaps, outweigh the investment in grape growing and winemaking.” Which means, if he right, that we’ll see fewer kangaroos and more wines with gender- and demographic specific labels.
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Posted by: Hampers | August 27, 2009 at 12:31 AM