Joe's Wine Resources

Joe's Wine Resources at JAMcafé

- Brock University's Antonia Mantonakis has studied how labels impacts consumers' perceptions of wine.

When presented with the same glass of wine in the same glass in the same environment, people are more likely to believe the harder-to-pronounce wine tastes better.

Please click here for more details...What's in a Wine Name?

- think you can tell which wine is which? think ratings from wine critics are useful? click the 'debunking' document at the bottom of this page for an eye opening report

- interested in wine auctions? how do wine prices behave? click the 'auction price' document at the bottom of this page

Did you know..... there are only 3 kinds of wine auctions allowed in Ontario:

1) the LCBO holds an annual auction of wine offered by private persons every October

2) charities can hold auctions of donated wines to raise funds

3) wines from the estates of bankrupt, deceased or divorced persons can be auctioned (some say these are all the same but contrary to popular belief, I have no opinion on that)

- do Robert Parker's ratings have an effect on wine prices? click on the 'Parker' document at the bottom of this page

- how to use an MRI machine to detect over-aged wine... click on the 'MRI' document at the bottom of this page

- does the VQA designation matter to consumers? click the 'VQA' document at the bottom of this page

- interested in California Wine History? click the 'California' document at the bottom of this page

- are you an industrialist or a romantic? click on the 'Winemaking' document at the bottom of this page

Rare Autochthonous Wines

Autochthonous:

(pronounce: awe-talk-tawn-us)

1) Found in the place where they were originally formed

2) Inhabiting a place from the earliest known times; aboriginal.

In other words, these are native species and not transplants, imports or imposters.

FYI, I have found a medical research paper showing that some Autochthonous Wines have a somewhat higher anti-oxidant level which can bring several health benefits. See the original research from the US National Institutes of Health here… http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15553664