Devil's Advocate - Does Fine Wine Have to Satisfy Purists?

Robert Joseph wonders how far producers can go in their efforts to produce 'fine wine'.

Reading time: 2m 30s

Devil's Advocate: A Suggestion for Wine Marketing: Slowly. With a Hashtag.

Robert Joseph wonders whether a top business consultant has come up with a clever way to set wine apart from other beverages.

Reading time: 1m 45s

Is It Time to Re-Think Fine Wine?

ARENI Global, a London-based research organisation, this week launched a wine paper that looks philosophically at the question of fine wine. Robert Joseph does a deep dive into it.

Reading time: 4m 45s

ARENI Sees Trouble Coming for Fine Wine—and Wants To Fix It

ARENI Global, based in London, calls itself a ‘think tank’—a place where people can come and ask questions about the future of fine wine. Robert Joseph catches up with CEO Pauline Vicard.

Reading time: 8m 30s

Women Buy More, Men Spend More

Expensive wines are a male preserve -- at least that's what a study by Wine direct/Enolytics for the US market suggests. Women buy, 61.2% of wines under US$20 a bottle, but 71.5% of bottles over US$90 a bottle are bought by men. The tide is turning, however.

Reading time: 1m 30s

Devil's Advocate - Fine Wine and the Downside of Sustainable Bottles

Wine producers are increasingly embracing environmentally friendly packaging, which has to be welcomed - but, Robert Joseph says, that trend comes at a cost...

Reading time: 2m 50s

Fine wine after the pandemic

Pauline Vicard from ARENI Global talks to international experts inside and outside the world of fine wine and looks at the impact of Covid-19.