Comments on: The Boston Wine Party: Letter from FENAVIN, or why archaic US wine policy robs consumers http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/07/the-boston-wine-party-letter-from-fenavin-spain%e2%80%99s-national-wine-fair/ A critical review of food, drinks, culture, and cognition Wed, 11 Apr 2012 04:30:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stretch http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/07/the-boston-wine-party-letter-from-fenavin-spain%e2%80%99s-national-wine-fair/#comment-2189 Stretch Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:30:29 +0000 http://blindtaste.com/?p=180#comment-2189 A 47 years old of Cincinnati uses Viagra regularly says that unlike men Viagra in women can lead to a clear sense of where you are.; xanax 389; A 47 years old of Cincinnati uses Viagra regularly says that unlike men Viagra in women can lead to a clear sense of where you are.; xanax 389;

]]> By: Mark http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/07/the-boston-wine-party-letter-from-fenavin-spain%e2%80%99s-national-wine-fair/#comment-1786 Mark Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:13:52 +0000 http://blindtaste.com/?p=180#comment-1786 Ok so I am the cofounder of a wine club and I wish this would be changed. We take time to hand select wines and relationships do matter in this business. It's difficult to be a direct retailer especially if you don't focus on wine, but the current system with state by state laws is clearly broken. Ok so I am the cofounder of a wine club and I wish this would be changed. We take time to hand select wines and relationships do matter in this business. It’s difficult to be a direct retailer especially if you don’t focus on wine, but the current system with state by state laws is clearly broken.

]]> By: Granite http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/07/the-boston-wine-party-letter-from-fenavin-spain%e2%80%99s-national-wine-fair/#comment-249 Granite Fri, 15 May 2009 14:21:38 +0000 http://blindtaste.com/?p=180#comment-249 --the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. (Is there anything that more clearly reveals our government’s still-Puritanical view of wine drinking as a vice than this agency’s name?)-- Hey!!! You're disparaging Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives there!!! –the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. (Is there anything that more clearly reveals our government’s still-Puritanical view of wine drinking as a vice than this agency’s name?)–

Hey!!! You’re disparaging Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives there!!!

]]> By: Cole http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/07/the-boston-wine-party-letter-from-fenavin-spain%e2%80%99s-national-wine-fair/#comment-234 Cole Wed, 13 May 2009 21:08:54 +0000 http://blindtaste.com/?p=180#comment-234 - As a wine retailer, the value add for me is that the importer/distributor system creates an editorial system to help me navigate the world's millions of wine producers to find wines that I (based on quality and style) should be selling. I recognize the system as very useful, but still convoluted. - What would the alternative look like? Yes, I could directly contact every winemaker in the world to ask them to mail me a sample bottle of their wine, but then again, so would every other wine retailer/restaurant in the world, which would totally kill all the winemaker's profit. - The bureaucratic regulatory tests needed for US wine are generally totally absurd and not helping anyone but the companies created b/c of it. It's very hard to educate consumers that the $10 bottle of Spanish wine is almost assuredly more "organic" than the $25 bottle of USDA "organic" wine. - Feel free to email me because I would actually love to chat more about this, I just got off a very long phone call with a distributor where we were discussing a makeshift way we might try to help consumers out with this. - As a wine retailer, the value add for me is that the importer/distributor system creates an editorial system to help me navigate the world’s millions of wine producers to find wines that I (based on quality and style) should be selling. I recognize the system as very useful, but still convoluted.

- What would the alternative look like? Yes, I could directly contact every winemaker in the world to ask them to mail me a sample bottle of their wine, but then again, so would every other wine retailer/restaurant in the world, which would totally kill all the winemaker’s profit.

- The bureaucratic regulatory tests needed for US wine are generally totally absurd and not helping anyone but the companies created b/c of it. It’s very hard to educate consumers that the $10 bottle of Spanish wine is almost assuredly more “organic” than the $25 bottle of USDA “organic” wine.

- Feel free to email me because I would actually love to chat more about this, I just got off a very long phone call with a distributor where we were discussing a makeshift way we might try to help consumers out with this.

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