• Alabama OKs "stronger wine:" You can't sell wine in Alabama with a woman riding a bicycle on the label, but you can sell wine with as much as 24 percent alcohol. No, I don't understand it, either. I just hope that the lawmakers who pushed for the bill make sure the higher alcohol wine they want to buy has had its label approved.
• Perspective on direct shipping bill: The great Paul Franson offers a reasoned, sensible look at the outcry over the infamous HR 5034, which has so many people in the wine world in an uproar -- even though they have no idea what is going on. Writes Franson: "But is passage of the bill even possible? Rep. Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena, Calif.) says, 'The bill isn’t going anywhere. Speaker Pelosi is on board (the opposition).' Thompson is co-chair of the Wine Caucus in Congress. Pelosi, like Thompson, owns a vineyard in wine country, and surely is aware of the bill’s potential consequences."
• Dan Berger on rose: "Winery personnel who work the wine tasting rooms and public-event tastings almost all say the same thing: 'When I say to people, "We have a dry rosé," people usually say, "No thanks, I don’t drink sweet wine." What part of 'dry' are they missing?” Dan's recommendation? Waterbrook from Washington state, about $13.
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