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February 16 2006

Internetwine-related blogs have run amok with posts on the chaos that is happening withwine shipping. I don’t find this terriblyinteresting because the dialogue on both sides is horribly mis-leading andone-sided. It’s the adult equivalent ofrecess verbal taunts. Tiring and petty. And, its multi-faceted—wine laws are pretty Byzantineand there, frankly, hasn’t been much in the way of change for a long time.
But,back in the early summer of last year, the Supreme Court ruled that states thatallow wine shipping in-state cannot forbid wineries from shipping out of state.
And,the crowd roared. Game on.
Exceptin Indiana—where there was already statute on the books that said thatwineries in-state weren’t allowed to ship wine—a fact that had long beenignored as wineries had been shipping to customers for years without repercussion.
And,that brings us to today. I might havethe vagaries of the genesis a little mixed up, but basically what’s happeningis legislation is likely going to be passed that says that ALL wine must gothrough the 3-tier system with a distributor.
Thisisn’t really great, because any manufacturing company should have the abilityto find a free market and distributors tend to be under-managed companies thatrely heavily on the 80/20 rule of sales focus.
Unfortunately,most independent, midwestern wineries, with a few exceptions, are in the 80%
Moststates are going through some level of this dialogue, but the below excerptsfrom the Indianapolis Star is notable because it very clearly delineates theoutsized caricatures of the people and positions that populate this discussionin numerous states.
Will state wineries die on the vine?
Industry says bill halting in-stateshipments could cripple it
By Bill Ruthhart
February 14, 2006
Ted, mostly sells his wine at his winery, by choice, Ibelieve. But, following Olivery Winery,a well regarded winery in the state with regional distribution, and in order togrow, he needs distribution. I’ve seenhis wines at local grocery stores—probably sold directly in, as well. And, it’s the semi-sweet stuff that tends tosell well in Indiana, especially during the Summer. His comment about pulling the rug out from under the industry is,at best hyperbolic.
Instead, Thomas said, the lobbyingpower of the state’s wholesalers is what has moved the bill along.
February 14 2006

My ethos frequently arouses pathos in those around me. Don’t get me wrong, I love wine from wineries—big, small, all kinds of wineries—California and elsewhere.
But, I’m conflicted, secretly, by my fancy for the so-called "Adventure" brands—the labels that are slightly off-kilter; Funky Llama anyone? Yellowtail. Monkey Bay and the rest of the ilk.
Usually, the wine is New World style, fruit forward, not overly complex, imminently quaffable. Something that will give you slight pleasure, but nothing that’s going to knock your socks off—kind of like that date you agreed to, it ended up okay by the next morning, but it didn’t lead to another date ...
And, so it goes. I try, and I try and I get marginal pleasure and I try something else.
Wine Enthusiast has an article this month (hot off the press) that studies this phenomena by looking at labels esoterically. It does a standard redux of wine research and twentysomethings ... and essentially indicates that Generation Y doesn’t like wine with Chateau’s on the lable. Yes, very true. I’m out of my twenties now, but I agree. But, that’s really simplistic.
I would posit that it has less to do with Chateau’s and more to do with the affinity people seek when buying wine. People want to identify with a brand and in the absence of strong branding, people create their own bridge to that identification. Hence, for woman in their twenties just off of the Boone’s Farm, the Little Penguin Sav. Blanc.
The other point is most (not all, but most labels as brands) come from wine conglomerates. You rarely see a winery in the States using this tactic because they can create affinity by their "story"—a marketing task that is a lot simpler for them to do then in France, where you literally have to buy a book to understand the Chateau structure.
All of this is immaterial, really. Read Jim Dolan’s book on Fetzer winery True to Our Roots and learn about how he balanced commerce and community and then go buy some Cleavage Creek—with proceeds going to support breast cancer research.
Now that’s something we can all get behind.
February 12 2006

As a member of Generation X (and on the younger side of the demo, at that), I continue to read about the 77M strong that is Generation Y. In fact, my new bride is the first year of those that are, by definition, Generation Y—born after 1977. She is 28.
While I was in Vegas dining with a customer at a trade show, we were talking wine. The customer in question was my parents age and had kids my age. He was suitably impressed when I knew that Parker was from Maryland, where he lived, and we continued to have a lengthy conversation about wine—the kind that he enjoyed (French) and the kind that I enjoyed (California and non-French wines).
My dining companion started drinking and learning about wine when he was in his late 30s. I, on the other hand really started when I was in my early to mid-20s.
We both, generationally, started at an average time.
This just in ... if there is any doubt that Generation Y is going to change the rules of the game regarding wine and its consumption.
Whiz Kids
Despite being younger than some of the wines they pour, youthful sommeliers are energizing the Bay Area dining scene
- Amanda Berne, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Many people’s 21st birthday includes a tour of bars and praying to the porcelain god at the end of the night.
Mark Bright’s 21st birthday bestowed an honor that would shape the rest of his life: He became a sommelier at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas.
Chicago-born Bright, now 23 and a sommelier at Michael Mina restaurant in San Francisco, is just one of many young wine pros who are flooding the Bay Area restaurant scene, uncorking their enthusiasm, eagerness and ever- expanding knowledge for the wining and dining public.
In a time of easy information, these youthful oenophiles are soaking up tips from mentors, books, travel and the Internet, as more restaurants push wine service as a necessity.
Beyond restaurants, Bay Area wine and specialty stores aren’t shying away from youth, either, squashing the notion that wine knowledge has only accumulated in those with gray hair. Jeff Porter, 28, is the bottle shop and beverage category manager at Bay Area supermarket chain Andronico’s, giving him the decision-making power for all 10 of its stores.
So, if it wasn’t bad enough that these guys are coming out of school making a ton more money then Generation X, they are supplanting them in jobs—now, albeit its a Sommelier gig at a restuarant, but just the same ...
Though, truth be told, I wish I would have thought of it coming out of school ...