Essays
How that “wine influencer” might well be a fraud
by Miquel Hudin | 10-01-2019 ~ 12 Comments
"Influencer" is a word many of us will have heard of at this point even if not in marketing circles where it's the current brass ring in terms of social media advertising campaigns. In brief,... more »
Üllo: Why the wine sulfites & headaches myth never dies…
by Miquel Hudin | 06-12-2018 ~ 2 Comments
So as is typically the case, the claim was framed as such: "A wine filter that will make your pinot noir headaches disappear" and as always, the claim was most assuredly not true and probably... more »
Life, under Coravin
by Miquel Hudin | 23-07-2018
The Coravin. This little device has changed the face of wine service and storage massively since its creation in 2011. The act of jabbing a hollow needle through the cork in a wine bottle, injecting... more »
Wine buying in a vacuum: Winebuyers.com
by Miquel Hudin | 28-05-2018 ~ 8 Comments
"Disruptive" is a term that raises my hackles. This is due to it being used either when referring to something like Uber who are outright breaking the law or then someone who is claiming to... more »
The winemaker/winery guide to social media
by Miquel Hudin | 04-04-2018 ~ 2 Comments
For anyone in wine, you've probably been constantly hearing how this generation or that generation or men or women or fill-in-the-blank is "now buying wine via social media!" Most of these articles usually make big... more »
Seeing the Napa Valley of now
by Miquel Hudin | 26-03-2018 ~ 2 Comments
This past February, the impossible happened: I actually slept in Napa Valley. In fact, I slept seven nights and passed an entire week within the confines of these world-famous vineyards bracketed by the Mayacamas and... more »
The wine blog. Where from here?
by Miquel Hudin | 30-01-2018 ~ 3 Comments
To a great extent, I've become numb to shocking headlines over the last year and half. But despite the constantly being on the brink of nuclear war and shithole talk, when I read "Huffington Post... more »
On writing a Georgian wine guide
by Miquel Hudin | 28-06-2017 ~ 2 Comments
For anyone who might think it a quick way to riches, you simply do not write wine books for financial gain. Most everyone writes these types of books with little regard to the scant paycheck... more »
The continuing potential of Croatian wine
by Miquel Hudin | 07-05-2017
In regards to tourism, Croatia is now a destination in its own right and has long shed the infamous, "The Next" descriptor which has seemingly been passed on to Albania, now "The Next Croatia". In... more »
Natural, assholes, & how to get attention in wine writing
by Miquel Hudin | 03-04-2017 ~ 1 Comment
It's preferable to sit in the sidelines of wine and social media to let the bits retweet as they may. But what happens when you do actually need to stand out and "use" the internetz... more »