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We greatly appreciate the opportunity to be a part of your wine world. Changes are coming next year, as in response to requests from readers, we will produce eight issues with expanded content in each issue, including several new departments, at a lower subscription price...
Sommelier Journal We pointed out this blog a few weeks ago and it is certainly delivering so far. Quick recap, this blogger is opening a new restaurant in the New York area. This post is part 1 of 2 of a dos and don'ts list he is going to give his servers.
Source: boss.blogs.nytimes.com
By popular demand, our restaurateur-to-be offers his list of 100 things his servers will never do.
Sommelier Journal Randy Caparoso will be interviewing Kermit Lynch later this month for a future SJ article and although he has his own questions in mind, he'd like to know what everyone would be interested in asking if they had the opportunity to talk with Mr. Lynch. No promises of course, but add your questions in the comments.
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The last article from the September issue is the Winery Spotlight on Parallel Napa Valley. Subscribers who have an online account linked to their print subscription can read it in full at http://www.sommelierjournal.com/articles
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The Restaurant Spotlight from the September issue is on Blackberry Farm in Tennessee. Subscribers who have an online account linked to their print subscription can read it in full at: http://www.sommelierjournal.com/articles
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The Tasting Panel in the September issue was on German Riesling from the Erste Lage category. FB exclusive snippets inside the album, subscribers who have an online account linked to their print subscription can read the article in full here: http://www.sommelierjournal.com/articles
Sommelier Journal Big news in the retailing world: Amazon.com may be putting its wine program on hold. This could be a temporary issue or something deeper (as the article suggests), but after two years and several setbacks prospects for this venture don't look good.
Source: www.winebusiness.com
Wine Industry News for Oct 22, 2009
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Our final feature from the September issue looks at organic grape growing in Napa, including some arguments about cost (is organic farming really more expensive?) This is a subscriber-only article that only those with an online account linked to their print subscription can read in full at: http://www.sommelierjournal....com/articles/article.aspx?year=2009&mont
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Sure that everyone is aware of the stories done both by Eric Asimov and Jon Bonne on wine list composition in the Bay Area, link to the Pour (which links to Asimov's NYT column is below), link to Bonne's is here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/wine
Source: thepour.blogs.nytimes.com
More American winemakers are creating less full-bodied flavors.
Sommelier Journal Our FB Fan exclusive this month will come from the departments, so your choices are: the German Erste Lage Riesling tasting panel, Blackberry Farm restaurant spotlight, Parallel Napa Valley winery spotlight, or Mullay-Hofberg terroir. Vote in the comments below, voting closes Friday afternoon.
Sommelier Journal Our free access column for the September issue is Randy's Bottom Line column which takes a look at the Cornell Hospitality Study, and generally takes issue with a statistics only approach to determing what leads to success in wine programs.
Source: www.sommelierjournal.com
This same issue underlies the recent Cornell University Center for Hospitality Research report titled “Wine List Characteristics Associated with Greater Wine Sales.” Any time you draw conclusions based ...
Sommelier Journal Here are the subscriber-only columns from the September issue. All of these columns can be read in their entirety on our website by subscribers who have an online account linked to their print subscription.
Sommelier Journal Decanter article on Napa that pretty well sums up the market: If you're a really well respected wine with small allocation, you're still doing OK, if you're in the lower end of the market you're still doing OK. Otherwise...not so good.
Napa suffers at high end, while lower tiers and cults sit tight - decanter.com - the route to all go
Source: www.decanter.com
The higher-end Napa wines are suffering most in the recession, with some big names discounted by nearly a third.
Sommelier Journal Our other "free" feature from the September issue is from Marnie Old and is an excellent guide to staff training on elementary food-and-wine pairing principles (with some advanced advice as well).
Source: www.sommelierjournal.com
Ask any servers what wine question they hear most on the floor, and the answer will likely be the same: “What should I drink with my meal?” Yet most restaurants’ staff-training programs tend to emphasize ...
