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🤝 A Judgment-free wine #community
😊 Making wine #easy & #fun
➡️ Pour yourself something & let's chat!
📸 IG: @Cork_Connoisseur
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Hi, I'm Alec, creator of Cork Connoisseur.
My mission? Making wine culture approachable, fun, and inclusive.
Follow for Wine reviews, pairing tips, travel stories, and the occasional meme.
Here to connect, sip, and chat about wine.
Let's uncork some conversations! 🍷
My mission? Making wine culture approachable, fun, and inclusive.
Follow for Wine reviews, pairing tips, travel stories, and the occasional meme.
Here to connect, sip, and chat about wine.
Let's uncork some conversations! 🍷
Canada pulls U.S. liquor from shelves—a stark reminder that trade wars have real bite. Tariffs aren't just numbers; they're disruptions that hit wineries, retailers, and wine lovers hard. 🍷📊 #TradeTensions #Tarriffs
Canada Strips Shelves Of U.S. Liquor, First Domino To Fall In Tariff Wars
Some of America’s most iconic liquor brands are set to be removed from Canadian stores amid one of the first dominos to fall in a divisive tit-for-tat round of trade tariffs.
www.forbes.com
February 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Canada pulls U.S. liquor from shelves—a stark reminder that trade wars have real bite. Tariffs aren't just numbers; they're disruptions that hit wineries, retailers, and wine lovers hard. 🍷📊 #TradeTensions #Tarriffs
Restaurant wine lists are slimming down and it's actually a good thing 🍷 Shorter menus = less intimidating choices and friendlier vibes at dinner. What do you think - relieved or missing the encyclopedia-sized lists?
Restaurant Wine Lists Are Getting Much Shorter
In an effort to engage their customers with wine, restaurants are trying friendlier, less intimidating ways to present their selections.
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Restaurant wine lists are slimming down and it's actually a good thing 🍷 Shorter menus = less intimidating choices and friendlier vibes at dinner. What do you think - relieved or missing the encyclopedia-sized lists?
🎄 Post-Christmas Wine Stories! 🍷
Santa's gifts are unwrapped, but we're curious... which wine gift stole the show this year? Or maybe there's a special bottle from holidays past that you'll never forget?
Santa's gifts are unwrapped, but we're curious... which wine gift stole the show this year? Or maybe there's a special bottle from holidays past that you'll never forget?
December 26, 2024 at 7:22 PM
🎄 Post-Christmas Wine Stories! 🍷
Santa's gifts are unwrapped, but we're curious... which wine gift stole the show this year? Or maybe there's a special bottle from holidays past that you'll never forget?
Santa's gifts are unwrapped, but we're curious... which wine gift stole the show this year? Or maybe there's a special bottle from holidays past that you'll never forget?
Florence's 500-year-old 'wine windows' (buchette del vino) are making a comeback! These tiny hatches once let merchants serve plague-era Chianti through palace walls. Now they're reopening across the city as a result of Covid-19. Who knew social distancing could be so delightfully Italian? 🍷
Why Florence's historic wine windows are making a comeback
For nearly 500 years, visitors to this romantic Renaissance city have sipped Tuscan wines from buchette di vino, tiny openings in the walls of palazzos.
www.nationalgeographic.com
December 22, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Florence's 500-year-old 'wine windows' (buchette del vino) are making a comeback! These tiny hatches once let merchants serve plague-era Chianti through palace walls. Now they're reopening across the city as a result of Covid-19. Who knew social distancing could be so delightfully Italian? 🍷
California vineyards face bitter harvest: 50 acres left to rot as global wine demand plummets 3.5B bottles, forcing painful vine pullouts amid shifting tastes and rising prices. 🍇📉 #WineIndustry #California
Wine vineyards are ripping out their fields because there isn't enough demand
Some growers are forced to downsize as declining wine sales lead to an oversupply of grapes.
www.cbsnews.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:33 PM
California vineyards face bitter harvest: 50 acres left to rot as global wine demand plummets 3.5B bottles, forcing painful vine pullouts amid shifting tastes and rising prices. 🍇📉 #WineIndustry #California
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Miracle on aisle 9, y’all!
December 9, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Miracle on aisle 9, y’all!
Always amazed by Armenia's incredible wine renaissance since breaking free from Soviet control. They're rebuilding centuries-old winemaking traditions, reviving indigenous grapes that survived against all odds.
#Wine #Armenia #UndiscoveredGems
#Wine #Armenia #UndiscoveredGems
Three Decades After Breaking From the Soviet Union, This Country’s Wine Industry Is Making a Comeback
Armenia has a wealth of indigenous old vine grapes which allow producers to create wine unlike anywhere else in the world. Despite historical hurdles, they've only just begun.
www.foodandwine.com
December 9, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Always amazed by Armenia's incredible wine renaissance since breaking free from Soviet control. They're rebuilding centuries-old winemaking traditions, reviving indigenous grapes that survived against all odds.
#Wine #Armenia #UndiscoveredGems
#Wine #Armenia #UndiscoveredGems
Georgian winemakers fear EU distancing could crush their $250M wine export market. Pro-democracy protesters in Tbilisi understand: EU connections aren't just political—they're economic lifelines for Georgia's ancient wine industry. 🍷🇬🇪 #Wine #Georgia #EU
Long Tied to Russia, Georgia’s Winemakers Tip a Glass to the West
Some vintners in the former Soviet republic are seeking to break a politically risky dependence on Russia and focus more on high-value European and American markets.
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2024 at 7:19 PM
December 3, 2024 at 3:07 AM
Always blown away by how colonial Americans were absolute unit drinkers.
They were putting away nearly 3x more alcohol per capita than modern Americans—we're talking around 7-8 gallons of pure alcohol annually versus today's ~2.5 gallons.
They were putting away nearly 3x more alcohol per capita than modern Americans—we're talking around 7-8 gallons of pure alcohol annually versus today's ~2.5 gallons.
Colonial Americans Drank Roughly Three Times as Much as Americans Do Now
In 1784, the doctor Benjamin Rush described alcohol as a threat to morality—and a danger to the nascent republic.
www.theatlantic.com
December 2, 2024 at 1:47 AM
Always blown away by how colonial Americans were absolute unit drinkers.
They were putting away nearly 3x more alcohol per capita than modern Americans—we're talking around 7-8 gallons of pure alcohol annually versus today's ~2.5 gallons.
They were putting away nearly 3x more alcohol per capita than modern Americans—we're talking around 7-8 gallons of pure alcohol annually versus today's ~2.5 gallons.
This will be interesting to see how Messi's Goat 10 does, in a market already packed with stellar Argentinian producers.
Not sure the star power behind wine brands truly ever works out like they expect it to.
Not sure the star power behind wine brands truly ever works out like they expect it to.
Lionel Messi launches limited-edition wine range - Decanter
Argentinian superstar Lionel Messi has unveiled a limited-edition wine range that celebrates his status as the greatest footballer of all time.
www.decanter.com
November 30, 2024 at 4:35 AM
This will be interesting to see how Messi's Goat 10 does, in a market already packed with stellar Argentinian producers.
Not sure the star power behind wine brands truly ever works out like they expect it to.
Not sure the star power behind wine brands truly ever works out like they expect it to.
Wine lovers, brace yourselves 🍷⬆️ Higher wine prices are looming as tariffs hit retailers. Your favorite bottles might get pricier—how will this impact your go-to restaurants and wine shops?
Time to stock up or switch it up?
Time to stock up or switch it up?
Higher wine prices on the horizon? Wine retailers brace for tariffs
Tariffs are on the horizon for many imported products when President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
www.latimes.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Wine lovers, brace yourselves 🍷⬆️ Higher wine prices are looming as tariffs hit retailers. Your favorite bottles might get pricier—how will this impact your go-to restaurants and wine shops?
Time to stock up or switch it up?
Time to stock up or switch it up?
What bottle is everyone bringing to Thanksgiving? 🤔
November 25, 2024 at 9:39 PM
What bottle is everyone bringing to Thanksgiving? 🤔
Hi, I'm Alec, creator of Cork Connoisseur.
My mission? Making wine culture approachable, fun, and inclusive.
Follow for Wine reviews, pairing tips, travel stories, and the occasional meme.
Here to connect, sip, and chat about wine.
Let's uncork some conversations! 🍷
My mission? Making wine culture approachable, fun, and inclusive.
Follow for Wine reviews, pairing tips, travel stories, and the occasional meme.
Here to connect, sip, and chat about wine.
Let's uncork some conversations! 🍷
November 25, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Hi, I'm Alec, creator of Cork Connoisseur.
My mission? Making wine culture approachable, fun, and inclusive.
Follow for Wine reviews, pairing tips, travel stories, and the occasional meme.
Here to connect, sip, and chat about wine.
Let's uncork some conversations! 🍷
My mission? Making wine culture approachable, fun, and inclusive.
Follow for Wine reviews, pairing tips, travel stories, and the occasional meme.
Here to connect, sip, and chat about wine.
Let's uncork some conversations! 🍷