{"id":2212,"date":"2010-05-03T01:03:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T06:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2010-05-02T22:02:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T03:02:02","slug":"how-do-you-choose-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/03\/how-do-you-choose-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"How do You Choose Wine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just read an interesting article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/\">Vancouver Sun<\/a>. The article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/life\/Wine+lovers+respond+price+friendly+methods\/2956344\/story.html\">Wine lovers respond to price, not eco-friendly methods<\/a>,\u201d by Leslie Gevirtz.\u00a0 Gevirtz notes, \u201cIn a survey of 1,000 consumers by global consulting firm AlixParnters eco-friendly was rated the least important attribute for wines, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/life\/Many+cheaper+wines+deliver+taste+value\/2521760\/story.html\">price<\/a> topped the list.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It made me wonder what the questions in the survey might have included and secondly really how do the majority of wine consumers choose their wines. When you purchase wine, what is your purchase based on?<\/p>\n<p>If I were conducting a survey in anticipation of consumer buying wine here are some of the questions I might ask.<\/p>\n<p>In what order would you determine a wine to buy?<\/p>\n<p>Cost<br \/>\nGrape Varietal<br \/>\nFood Pairing<br \/>\nProducer<br \/>\nCountry<br \/>\nTaste<br \/>\nColor of bottle<br \/>\nType of Closure<br \/>\nLabel Design<br \/>\nOrganic\/Biodynamic\/Sustainable<br \/>\nYear Produced<br \/>\nRecommendation by a friend<br \/>\nRecommendation by a winery\/wine shop<br \/>\nRobert Parker or Wine Spectator Rating<\/p>\n<p>What is most important to you?<\/p>\n<p>Cheers! Kathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"How do You Choose Wine?\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=2212\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just read an interesting article in the Vancouver Sun. The article, Wine lovers respond to price, not eco-friendly methods,\u201d by Leslie Gevirtz.\u00a0 Gevirtz notes, \u201cIn a survey of 1,000 consumers by global consulting firm AlixParnters eco-friendly was rated the least important attribute for wines, while price topped the list.\u201d It made me wonder what the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[1296,1295,98,431,1276,106],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-grape-varietal","tag-robert-parker","tag-wine","tag-wine-shop","tag-wine-spectator","tag-winery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2214,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/2214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}