Wines for the People

Hey folks, we've talked about shutting this blog down for years. Now we are not so much shutting it down as moving it. Please look for n...

A long ago post that mentioned art worth seeing in Napa Valley tasting rooms mentioned the wonderful Ansel Adams collection at Mumm Napa Val...

Taste of Purple  was kind enough to send me their Vino2 aerating glass to review. You might have seen the quick and dirty review I dashed o...

A full review of this glass will require comparisons involving several wines and therefore several days. With Hanukkah well underway and Xm...

Wine writers nag that we should drink bubbles whenever we please, but most of us please to do so during the holidays and for other celebrati...

Pink wines can be wondrous things, and we are pleased to see that they are ever more popular. (If calling it Brosé makes you comfortable wit...

Part 1 -- Beer Never take a straight path when you can meander— me, just now. I'd been kicking the ideas for this piece around my...

In our last post we discussed a wine from Italy's south--Sicily, to be exact. Now we move to Piemonte, in the Northwest. Colorado-based ...

We were recently delighted to be contacted by Colorado's Curious Cork Imports . They graciously offered to send some wines from their p...

By far the most read post on this blog is " Who Owns What-A Guide to Wine Brands ," in which we revealed the corporate ownership o...

Have you heard of Naked Wines ? Like us, they are trying a different than normal approach to get great wines to the thirsty masses. Naked no...

We here at Revolutionary HQ are big fans of alternative packaging. Glass bottles sealed with tree bark are just so 18th Century. Yet plastic...

We bottled our entire production of 2011 Viognier from the two vines at our house today (all five bottles). Our daughter was very eager t...

In our previous post we mused about the nature of creativity in winemaking. To wit: is there any, or even room for any? We compared w...

Herewith some rambling thoughts on the nature of creativity in winemaking. Expect revisions and updates as the writer's brain continues ...

In 1998 I visited France for the first time, in the company of my wonderful wife-to-be. We explored Paris, Burgundy, the Rhone and Provence....

We like to believe that winemakers are a naturally curious, inquisitive bunch. To that end, we have an experiment going that delights and a...

What were we thinking? We weren't. Should've brought the camera. Should've taken notes. Shoulda shoulda shoulda. Matthew Roric...

The last movie was such a hit (see post below) that we could not help ourselves. Here's our latest video post: We hope you like it. C...

The latest in our ongoing series on innovative wine packaging is Karma California Brut. We discovered it on a Virgin America flight and giv...

Item:  Organic? Biodynamic? Sustainable? What do these terms mean and what's the best way to farm? The answer, of course, is outrageousl...

We are pleased to take a break from reporting on PWR's Progress to tell you about a new discovery, FLASQ wines in aluminum cans bottl...

Of course we are here to promote PWR Wines , but it is in keeping with our purpose to let you know about great wine buys out there. We hav...

We read a piece on the Tablas Creek blog * today that is too good not to share. The piece explains in thorough detail why Tablas Creek elect...

In a recent post , we asked for help naming the 2009 PWR blend of Syrah (40%), Zinfandel (40%) and Petite Sirah (20%), that we will bottle i...

Ask anyone in the wine industry, whatever their role, what question they are most often asked and the answer will be some variation of ...

In the January 18, 2010 issue of The New Yorker , Malcom Gladwell writes about the character traits that make enrepreneurs succecssful. We ...

We have enjoyed ourselves immensely, but it is time to end the Wines for the People blog as we know it. We set out to share our love of wine...

The 2008 Ritual Pinot Noir from Chile's Casablanca Valley is delicious and represents a great value at $18 (or less ). We have been g...

Here at Wines for the People we view wine and the wine industry with the eyes of revolutionaries. Imagine our delight to discover the Wine ...

When you see a great painting or play, or read a great book, the images and ideas can swirl around in your head for weeks. How much you talk...

Image from Stardusts and Sequins used under the Creative Commons license.   In our on-going quest to discover good wine in a box (see h...