Such is the wine world's international creep that it is well worth exploring further afield.
In other words, his wines, and especially his inexpensive wine selections, are what is good with the wine world.
Provided the wine holds up, all is well and just in the wine world between the haves and the have-nots.
Who knew we were on the precipice of a new wine world?
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Yes, the wine world and media may be evolving and, with that, slowly shedding the importance of established critics and their 100-point ratings.
We wondered, honestly, who they think their market is and we finally realized that many high-end American Chardonnays have become the Cadillac of the wine world.
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Brewers have lately been courting the class (and cash) of the wine world with bigger bottles, heftier price tags, claims of terroir, even or, at least profound, boastful flavors.
Indeed, Beaujolais became so unfashionable for a while, that it's now enjoying a kind of contrarian geek revival as if Beaujolais were the Hush Puppies of the wine world.
Brace yourselves bon vivants of the wine world, for a veritable holy grail of your venerated drink has been snapped up by an U.S. aficionado who wishes to remain, well, nameless.
This introduction would be apropos of nothing besides pretentious wine writer affectations were it not necessary to establish the backdrop for what is a compelling convergence of issues in the wine world.
Albertson Professor of International Political Economy at the University of Puget Sound in Washington State and author of The Wine Economist blog, a few questions about the wine world in general.
While Chardonnay grew to fame as "white Burgundy, " Pinot Gris began turning up in odd corners of the wine world under murky aliases: In France alone, Pinot Gris is also known as Tokay d'Alsace, Pinot Beurot in Burgundy and Malvoisie in the Loire.
The trial threatens to pop the cork on the dirty secrets of the wine auction world, which like the art market has been stung in recent years by a proliferation of fakes.
And along with his brother Julio he put California on the world wine map.
The bright, zippy white gets my vote as the most Mediterranean wine in the world.
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But even with its history, the region is still considered a New World wine producer.
Boxwood has received three Decanter Magazine World Wine Awards and has been featured in The Washington Post and Washingtonian Magazine.
Those bottles send a better message to me and the rest of the wine-drinking world about what Bordeaux is capable of.
He has a gift for bubbles, too, like this lively, rich, berry-inflected wine with New World ripeness and Old World grace.
Wine companies the world over are obtaining growing areas in one another's territories to enhance the range and quality of their products.
In the world wine trade, the Aussies have an unfair advantage: weather.
Then, owing to winemaking traditions, wines from the Old World tend to be more earth and spice driven, whereas a New World wine would be more fruit-forward.
Some Riojas can be aged more than 10 years in a bottle before they're released, and the very best achieve a subtle, mellow character unmatched by any other wine in the world.
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After creating one of the first specialty wines by the glass program to the ultimate Windows on the World Wine School, he changed an entire industry, impacting what all restaurants would come to offer.
After shipping their wine for decades to markets in the former Soviet Union, Georgia's winemakers are now struggling to introduce their products and their unique wine-making techniques to the rest of the wine-drinking world.
Although born on the Virginia frontier, Thomas Jefferson became the most knowledgeable wine connoisseur of his age, and his tastes in wine covered the world: France, Italy, Germany, Madeira, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Hungary and, of course, America.
Enrolled and about to start classes at the Culinary Institute of America, she decided on a whim to take the Windows on the World wine course, held on the 106th floor of the North Tower.
The company insists that after careful taste testing, no one will be able to tell the difference and it will taste exactly the same, but given some of the super tasters I have met through my work in the wine and spirits world, I find it virtually impossible that such a change in alcohol content can go unnoticed, especially with no additives to compensate.
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One of the refreshing things about the Australian approach to wine has been the willingness of the country's wine makers to puncture some of the snobberies and myths that surround the world of wine in Europe, and increasingly California.
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