I thought that I would take a minute as we embark on a new decade to review what I think to be some good and bad things going on in wine…
Good
- Value priced wine. This one, is of course, is a product of the recession. But let us hope that the trend to providing more quality wine at reasonable prices will survive the economic recovery (if one ever comes that a consumer would actually recognize).
- Ever expanding wine by the glass programs
- Wine flights on restaurant wine lists
- 2/3 ounce tasting pours – which also allows you to create your own flight
- More and more restaurants offering wine dinners
- More liquor stores with regular in-store wine tastings
- The explosion of great wine blogs – there is simply no excuse for not learning a lot about wine with the number of good people tasting and writing about it.
- More good vintage dated box wines
Bad
- Restaurants that still markup their wine too much. I know that they make a lot of money off of alcohol sales, but paying $25 for a bottle of wine that I can purchase for $9 at retail is just wrong.
- Generic wine lists – it always amazes me that with the abundance of good wine that so many restaurants still make no effort and provide very weak wine offerings. Makes you wonder what kind of care they put into food prep. doesn’t it…
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