Sue and I don’t really need an excuse to make s’mores. What could be better, especially on a warm summer evening, than Hershey’s milk chocolate and a toasted marshmallow wedged be…| The Wine Economist
3 posts published by Mike Veseth during August 2025| The Wine Economist
Sometimes it takes a special event to nudge you to take another look at a familiar winery or wine region. That’s what recently happened to us with the wines of Tuscany in general and San Felice in particular. A Tuscan Wine Giro Our old friend Peter and new friend Gina are newlyweds planning their first […]| The Wine Economist
It is useful to step back for a minute and appreciate some of the ways that the wine industry is evolving under the influence of innovative producers. Sometimes innovation is so obvious you can’t miss it. That was the case for us, for example, when Sue and I participated in the big SIMEI wine technology […]| The Wine Economist
If you know, you know. If you don’t, you probably don’t. That’s the way it is with the wines from Virginia. Guess Again How many wineries do you think there are in Virginia? Virgi…| The Wine Economist
George M Taber, A Toast to Bargain Wines: How innovators, iconoclasts, and winemaking revolutionaries are changing the way the world drinks. Scribner, 2011. George Taber knows something about how s…| The Wine Economist
Sue and I are still searching for non-alcoholic wines that pass our “Second Glass Test.” We think that NA wines should remind us of the types of wines they are based on and be tasty enough that we would ask for a second glass. It doesn’t hurt if the NA wines are priced in the […]| The Wine Economist
“Every time I open a bottle of wine, I thank my lucky stars that I am living in the golden age of wine. … There is a wine for every taste, from sweet to dry, and every wallet, from fat …| The Wine Economist
3 posts published by Mike Veseth during July 2025| The Wine Economist
It is cold comfort for U.S. winegrowers, producers, distributors, and retailers, but they are not alone in suffering a cascade of wine market woes. Recent reports from Italy, for example, paint an increasingly clear picture of a major wine-producing country in crisis. UIV Analysis Focuses on Exports The Unione Italiana Vini, which has more than […]| The Wine Economist
The first season of Stanley Tucci’s new travel and food series, “Tucci in Italy,” is running this summer on the National Geographic network. Click on the image above to view the series trailer. Sue and I can’t get enough of Italy, so we’ve been tuning in regularly for this just as we did a few […]| The Wine Economist
This is the second part of our report on the five very different wineries that Sue and I visited during our brief stay in Andalusia. Click here to read the first half of the story. Bodegas Tradició…| The Wine Economist
The Portuguese translation of my book Around the World in Eighty Wines has received an award. A Volta ao Mundo em 80 Vinhos, published in Brazil by Editora Valentina, was named best wine book translation by Gourmand International. The book is available from the publisher as well as through the usual online sellers, including Amazon.com in […]| The Wine Economist
Sue and I recently spent more than two weeks in Andalusia, Spain, about half of the time exploring the wine scene and the other half enjoying the region’s history and culture. We covered a lo…| The Wine Economist
2 posts published by Mike Veseth during June 2025| The Wine Economist
Sue and I recently returned from three weeks in Spain. We spent a few days in Madrid (where we dropped in at FEV General Assembly meetings), but most of the time in Andalusia, home of Sherry and Mo…| The Wine Economist
“LVMH Bets on Booze-Free Bubbles at $100-Plus a Bottle” was the Wall Street Journal headline. The story, which you may have read when it came out last month, is that luxury goods conglo…| The Wine Economist
How many people does it take to produce a case of wine? Well, it depends on how you look at it — and the number may surprise you. When you think about all of the steps in the process from vi…| The Wine Economist
We often talk about trends and problems in the wine industry, but I think we all know that wine isn’t a single business about which it is easy to generalize. Different countries or regions ha…| The Wine Economist
These are challenging times for many (but not all) consumers. Rising housing and interest costs are squeezing budgets. Pandemic-era stimulus check bank balances are going or gone. Student loan paym…| The Wine Economist
[This is the third and final article in a series inspired by our recent visit to Collio DOC in north-east Italy. Click here to read the first report and click here to read the second.] What does it…| The Wine Economist
[This is the second in a series of articles inspired by our recent visit to Collio DOC in north-east Italy. Click here to read last week’s introductory report.] When Sue and I first visited C…| The Wine Economist
Collio DOC is a tiny appellation snuggled up against the Slovenian border in north-east Italy. It is a beautiful place. How beautiful? After our recent visit to the region, I noticed that Sue chang…| The Wine Economist
