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 The bane of most winemakers is not knowing what their creation will taste like in your glass. These creative beings spend countless hours babying a wine, only to have the distribution system muck it up somehow. Despite every earnest effort along the way from winery to table, high temperatures (especially in summer) can, and often do, ruin a perfectly good bottle of wine. Read more: eProvenance tracks a wine’s temperature from the winery to the cellar  A few months ago, I wrote a column about how Bordeaux is no longer relevant to general American wine drinking public. Sounds like the NY Times has caught on to this sentiment. An excerpt from Eric Asimov’s column last week: “The hyperbole over 2009 Bordeaux began building even before the harvest last fall. Ripples of praise grew into waves this spring as critics and the trade descended on Bordeaux for the annual ritual of tasting the most recent vintage from barrels. Their ecstatic reviews reverberated through Britain, which takes its claret extremely seriously. They rang out in Hong Kong, the leading edge of what Bordeaux hopes will be a huge Asian market. Read more: NY Times echoes Americans’ lack of Bordeaux wine enthusiasm  I suppose it was bound to happen. That partytrain known as wine sales had to arrive in Generica, stopping at the Sam’s Club station. Like the last guy at a party to realize his fly is open, Sam Walton’s masterminding crew has released its own private wine retail label. I should’ve expected it… I should’ve sensed it in the air. But the moment the press release entered my inbox offering up a sample of this new Spanish red blend, I HAD to try it. Read more: Sam’s Club releases its own wine label: Infinite 2008 Spanish Red  Reports say recycling glass bottles — although it makes us all feel pretty damn good while we’re doing our part — is not a long term solution. Turns out, the process pollutes the atmosphere more than it saves landfill space. So a company in California has embraced the inevitable future I bet none of us expected to see: washing the already used wine bottles and reusing them. Read more: Taking recycling one step further: Reusing wine bottles |
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