I've said it before and I'll say it again -- I am a wine drinker, not a female wine drinker. I drink the same bottles men drink. I don't want to drink wine developed in a marketing brief to capture women buyers.
The varietal labeling of wine as we know it is a very modern phenomenon. It was popularized in California in the 1960s. Prior to that -- and even today with inexpensive jug wines -- California wine was usually labeled with a broad moniker like "Burgundy" or "Chablis."
The celebrity wine thing has gotten a little ridiculous. Antonio Banderas owns a vineyard in Spain. Mike Ditka has a wine label. Even somebody named Lil Jon has a wine label. I don't know who Lil Jon is, but odds are that he's not a viticulturist.
With names like Big House Red, Unchained Naked Chardonnay and The Usual Suspect Cabernet, it may come as a surprise that the winemaker behind this label wears bright red lipstick and approaches winemaking like perfume.
Starting in the summer 2012, Canadian wine drinkers can look forward to a warning label on wine bottles that the product may contain fish, eggs or mil...
Recently I was searching for some wine labels to use in an article and I came across artist Chris Sickels, who created the wine labels for the British...
How did 2010 stack up in terms of wine? Despite the economic recession, winemakers, wineries and wine bars came up with more than a few innovations --...
If you are like 99% of other wine drinkers, you know the best way to shop is not by region, or year, or varietal -- it's by the label. Nothing tastes...
You either are one or know one: that person who may or may not admit to ordering wine based on the beauty of a bottle. If the label is beautiful, it ...
Finally, someone in grape valley climbed out of the wine cellar to figure out what wine drinkers really want aside from great taste: peel-off wine labels.