Your moment has arrived. Imagine a large cellar, an unidentified red is poured, ‘what do you think of this.’? Even harder is this test. For years the Adelaide daily, The Advertiser, used the new release of Penfolds Grange to randomly stop city strollers and ask them to pass comment on an El cheapo compared to the Grange. Mostly no one had a clue.
On tasting – a lengthy explanation of what I know. View »
New year’s resolutions about wine are the same for you and me. The Glug side will make and discover interesting wines and sell these at reasonable prices while you will enjoy your drinking by not joining the madness of preposterous prices. The Monday letter will provide refresher courses about which parts of the wine lore are made up.
New year’s thoughts, testing new wines and a moment in Paris. View »
I hate waste as we retailers make money by collecting drips in a bucket. So, overspending on wine upsets me. I still approach shoppers in any wine store, ‘Pardon me but consider this over here as its better and half the price’.
After decades of study I announce the Top Global Region for value. View »
Accumulate experience and selecting a good bottle is not so hard. The hits far outweigh the misses which confirms your skills. Though do you ever ask why the same wine will be pronounced average by an experienced consumer in another State?
Show judging inflating prices Linnaean experts and Wine Spectator View »
Somewhere, sometime, the humble village wine changed into a different beverage.
Recent bottlings wine with food and wine as experiences. View »
The wine business is full of traps which confuse your ability to think clearly.
The MRI machine brings bad news as being a clear thinker about wines may not be possible. View »
Grenache is a significant variety, a natural for our climate and of the varieties left for you to discover is the most complex. Recognition is fifty years late though soon the year of Grenache will arrive and stay.
Who looks after the interest of the consumer – not wine writers or giant retailers? View »
I’m annoyed with myself for not understanding the significance of the 2021 vintage reds from South Australia, specifically those from the Adelaidean Mount Lofty Range.
Possible even likely: The 2021 Barossa vintage reds equal the legendary 1996’s View »
You may have noticed the Glug business sits outside the mainstream of wine retail. Glug was designed to be an outsider and is not impacted by much at all.
Can you believe Glug warm climate wines are dismissed by the wine elite? View »
I confess to now and again taking advantage of the gullibility of customers. We all want to drink better wine, yet you know the catch, how to achieve this without spending a heap more or being taken for a ride?
Smart buying means three things View »
