A Portrait of the Satirist as an Old Winemaker: An Interview with Bonny Doon's Randall Grahm Oct 08 To many people, the charismatic front-man of the iconic Boony Doon wine brands, Randall Grahm, is the Mad Hatter of the wine world.

Animal Wine Labels Oct 08 If you think you’ve been noticing more and more animals on wine labels over the past several years, it’s not just your imagination. According to a study by market research firm ACNielsen, approximately one out of every five table wine brands introduced features an animal on the label.

How can we get distributors and other wine buyers to get beyond their 90-point obsession? Oct 08 I got an email the other day from a winery representative who complained about some of my scores.
“The last 4 months of reviews have been in the low 80’s and we have been getting much higher scores from wine competitions and other publications for the same vintages of wines,” the person wrote...