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John Corcoran
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recovering wine marketer | amateur photographer | wine business ombudsman | dog walker “Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.” ~ Francis Bacon
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To balance supply and demand, winegrowers are forced into impossible situations. Do they rip out vineyards? Do they drop once-profitable fruit? Do they cease operations entirely?

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A fantastic portrait of life in the wine trade courtesy of David Williams in this week's Observer.
Hats off to him for the humour, honesty and realism he brings to this 25-year overview of the ups and downs involved…

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Days of wine and noses: the life of a critic | The Observer
Getting paid to drink all day might sound like a dream job. But what’s it really like to be a wine critic?
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“In the morning I woke like a sloth in the fog.” ~ Leslie Connor
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” ~ Will Rogers
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” – L.M. Montgomery
An article came out in The New York Times this week asking what can be done to save the “ailing” wine industry … It’s not only tone deaf, but it starts a conversation about how to improve the wine industry with thoughts that some may find insulting

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The VinePair Podcast: Wine Should Be Building, Not Burning, Bridges
An article came out in The New York Times this week asking what can be done to save the “ailing” wine industry. In the column, there’s quite a distinction made between people who drink wine from a sup...
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The wine business is in trouble due to reduced demand & changing tastes. You’d think that restaurants, which need to sell lots of vino to stay in business, would go the extra mile to see that ordering the stuff is easy and without subjecting us to political proselytizing

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Restaurant wine lists have gotten ridiculously confusing and pretentious — enough already
It almost makes you miss the old school snooty sommeliers of yore.
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“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche