Archive - August, 2006  Catch up  Keeping up a blog is more
stressful than I imagined. It isn’t the work involved, its the
pressure to “get it right”, but so far that has resulted in a
rather extended period without actually posting anything. So,
right or not, I think I had better get on with it.  A number of
things have happened recently. I am writing an article on the
topic of Wine Culture for a trade magazine, I have read that
someone is producing a film (with Russell Crowe no less) that
will be based to some extent in a vineyard, and I have re-
started my own wine learning in earnest.  Wine Culture, now that
I have started thinking about it, it a very useful way of
improving the business prospects for wine in this country. The
trade often moans about how the average price paid per bottle is
so low (below £3.99) and yet our only efforts seem to be to
encourage consumers to try more expensive wines by discounting
them in the vain hope they will then pay full price.
Unfortunately this leads to consumers getti