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3 posts published by Mike Veseth during October 2025| The Wine Economist
3 posts published by Mike Veseth during October 2025| The Wine Economist
Today’s Wine Economist column is inspired by sample wine glasses we received from the folks at Glasvin. Glasvin makes all sorts of hand-blown glassware, but the particular products they sent us were designed by Raj Parr, the famous sommelier, author, and winemaker. Our experience with these wine glasses has made us think a bit about […]| The Wine Economist
Nine months ago today, The Wine Economist published its annual column that, inspired by the upcoming Unified Wine & Grape Symposium, looks ahead to the future. The theme was sort of anti-climac…| The Wine Economist
This column is inspired by a recent birthday celebration dinner that featured three very different Saperavi wines from Georgia. >>><<< Mariam invited us to a dinner celebrating her husband Todd’s birthday and we accepted with enthusiasm, offering to bring some Georgian wines with us. Mariam is originally from Georgia, so her dinners often feature dishes […]| The Wine Economist
“Globalization versus Terroir” is the title of my first published essay on wine economics. It appeared as a chapter in my 2005 book Globaloney: Unraveling the Myths of Globalization, wh…| The Wine Economist
4 posts published by Mike Veseth during June 2025| The Wine Economist
2 posts published by Mike Veseth during September 2025| The Wine Economist
If only wine were as simple as love. How Can You Tell? How can you tell if someone really loves you? The answer is simple, according to Betty Everett’s 1964 hit tune “The Shoop Shoop Song.” Does he love me, I want to know How can I tell if he loves me so Is it […]| The Wine Economist
Will white wines replace red as the defining wine of the Rioja region? No, probably not. A recent Decanter tasting of more than 700 wines included only about 150 white wines. That’s many fewe…| The Wine Economist
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
“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
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
“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
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
