(As an aside: how many of you now have that song stuck in your head after reading the title?…ahhhhh high school memories….). The lights are turned down low, the Barry White is softly pumping through the stereo, and you’ve got…
The following is a guest post by Larry Chandler: wine sales and marketing guru! Please see his bio at the end of this post for more information! This is blog post #2 billion on wine marketing. Everybody writes about it.…
To view a complete list of all the books I have reviewed on The Academic Wino, visit my Wine Book Library page and browse! This book review is nearly a year in the making, as technically I bought the book…
Many of you already know that using oak barrels during winemaking and aging increases the complexity of the finished wine, and often increases the overall quality of the wine. Using oak changes the aroma and color, as well as the…
Hi Everyone! Becca here! A quick post today: I’m putting a call out for anyone who wishes to contribute a guest post on The Academic Wino! I love the idea of having a different voice on here periodically and would…
I am very happy to report to you all that I have been chosen as a recipient for a Wine Bloggers Conference (WBC) Scholarship to this year’s Wine Bloggers Conference in Penticton, BC! Those of you that follow me on…
As anyone who has been around wine for very long knows, proper storage conditions for wine is very important in terms of maintaining wine quality. If a wine is exposed to too much light or too high of temperatures, off…
There’s no way one single person can possibly review every single piece of peer reviewed literature related to wine that is published every day. This series presents multiple new papers (within the past year or two) in one post by…
Often times, scientific research articles have implications for applications into the real world—for example, on Monday, I posted an article on examining 2D-COS as a possible screening method for smoke taint in wine. The results of the study had significant…