81. Just as Spain has virtually made itself over since the Franco years, so has its wine industry. 82. Like almost everything else in the wine industry, winery valuations are complex. 83. Lukacs wisely avoids technical data, wine industry jargon and the tasting notes that pass for so much wine writing. 84. Mary Ewing Mulligan, co-owner and director of the International Wine Center, a wine school in New York, criticized the wine industry for its marketing techniques. 85. Missouri also had a prosperous wine industry before Prohibition. 86. Moet et Chandon is to champagne what General Motors is to cars, but in France family businesses are still the backbone of the wine industry. 87. Natural corks can also suffer from a mold problem called cork taint, which has plagued the wine industry for years. 88. Nevertheless, Prohibition had just been repealed, the California wine industry was aching for scientific studies to direct its effort to resurrect the vineyards. 89. Nature has also given the California wine industry cause for concern. 90. Nor do they want what they call the Disneyfication of the wine industry, to accommodate the vacationing hordes. |