East Coast Celebration
The New York Wine and Culinary Center, similar to Napa’s famed “Copia”, opens on Friday. At a cost of $7.5 million, the center is in the Finger Lakes wine region in a town called Canandaigua. It promises to be a fun destination and it is relatively close to our fair New York City. (Decanter)

Australia’s Plan
Yesterday, I mentioned that while the EU would distill surplus table wine into ethanol, Australia was refusing to adopt that strategy. Today, reports are surfacing that Australia will attempt to unload the excess table wine at rock bottom cost to China. The goal is for Australia to build wine enthusiasts out of the Chinese middle class. With growth in consumption and population, the Chinese market may be a great idea. (Australian)

Wine Writers Block
What is it to be wine writer? We now have generation of ‘wine writers’ who have established the niche and built their careers in evaluation and analysis of wine. In the process, some of these wine writers have alienated the big companies, trade groups, regions, or personalities of the industry. Bloomberg.com explores the wine writer phenomenon.

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