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Now, imagine you're strolling down the wine aisle in Publix, looking for a bottle of wine. You spot a bottle of non-alcoholic wine, and you think, "Hey, why not give it a shot?" So you take it home, uncork it, and take a sip. Surprisingly, it tastes pretty darn close to the real deal! You're intrigued, and so is the rest of the world.
Wine is more than just a beverage; it is art. We like to refer to it as glass art around our wine shop. At the corner of Park Ave and 59th Street in Manhattan, there was a wine shop that stood as the standard for service and selection–Sherry Lehman (SL for short as part of their logo read).
Wine, once considered a product steeped in tradition, craftsmanship, and regional diversity, has undergone seismic changes in recent decades. The wine industry has experienced a notable shift towards the commoditization of wine, transforming it from a unique and nuanced beverage to a standardized, easily replaceable consumable. In this blog post, we will rant how wine is an agricultural product deserving of the same respect and premium pricing ascribed to avocado toast.
If wineries truly (hard seltzers are canned so they do not affect the environment as much) care about the environment then glass wine bottles need to get lighter and slowly phased out. There should be an exception for wines made for aging as glass is the best inert material for such wine. But other than that it is long overdue to pass on glass.
To invoke Fifty Cent in his classic Many Men, “Like Paulie in Goodfellas, You Can Call [Antinori] The Don.” Antinori being Piero Antinori, the patriarchal leader of Marchesi Antinori, the Italian wine company. The famous rap bar applied prior to Piero Antinori acquiring Chateau St. Michelle’s majority stake in the Napa Valley icon, Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, earlier this month. If being a Don means that you are Italian and run shit like storied Napa Valley wineries. If that’s the case Piero Antinori says piece of cake in his deep Darth Vader like voice (literally, listen to any interview) while piloting his own burgundy-colored (coincidence?) helicopter and overlooking his many wineries.
The wine clubs that we are interested in are not speakeasy spots like the cover image. The ones that we are concerned with are the wine clubs that date back to the 1950s and 1960s in Europe. In the iconic wine countries like France, Italy and Germany, wine clubs were initially formed by groups of friends who loved wine and met up regularly to taste and talk wine. Something like: “Hey, Francois, Francesca and Franz come over on Friday night and let’s taste that new Rioja.”
