The Ashenfelter wine quality index created waves of controversy in the wine industry when it was released. In the June 2008 edition of The Economic Journal, Princeton economist Orley Ashenfelter published “Predicting the Quality and Prices of Bordeaux Wine.” You can read the article here. The premise of the article is that weather conditions during …
Total Wine Production: United States The US Alcohol and Tabacco Tax and Trade Bureau regulates wine production in the United States. In that function, they produce a set of interesting wine production statistics. The format of the data is inconvenient (two PDFs with different layouts depending on the year and month), but with a bit …
The US Alcohol and Tobacco Trade Tax Bureau maintains a list of approved wine grape names for use on labels by US vintners. Based on current regulations, a wine producer must follow these rules regarding the use of grape names on a bottle of wine: They may only use grape variety names approved by TTB. …
The “Judgement of Paris” in 1976 is widely understood to have shocked the wine world. The wine competition pitted the best Napa Valley vineyards with their counterparts in Bordeaux. The world was shocked because US wineries won both the wine and red wine categories. The white wine winner was the Chateau Montelena while the red …
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