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Brick and Mortar – eCommerce; which has lower costs? Why be a wine buyer at a store? Buy online instead. Fewer than 10% of people who buy wine have ever done so on line. I buy wine online because it is more convenient and I get to read and choose what I am buying from my [...]
We all know about the wine glut – except for French Bordeaux there is too much wine – oxymoron fine but wine brokers can barely give the stuff away if the wine is not a top shelf name. Many of the smaller California vineyards are selling cheap cheap cheap. Also, if you like to dig [...]
My dad likes wine. While my dad makes a great pilot, he makes a terrible wine buyer – it’s not his fault; he has excellent instincts and tastes well. Wine buyers must know the value of every type of wine, every vineyard, every country, and every vintage (or at least have a computer to help [...]
As wine buyers, we are often approached by inexperienced wine sellers that ask very intelligent questions. One question I got from extreme newbies is, “What is actually in wine”. Wow. How to answer this. Wine is made up of more than a thousand substances, not all of which have been analyzed in detail. The majority [...]
The most significant constituent of wine, 75-90 percent, is water. The 15 percent variance is accounted for by the amounts of tannic acid, organic acids, mineral salts and pectins which form the win’s extract. As experienced wine buyers will agree, these percentages differ from wine to wine. The second largest constituent of wine is ethyl [...]