Will Wine Ever Come Out of the 18th Century?

  Here we are in the 21st century with computers in our hands connecting us to the world, and we have pictures of galaxies from billions of years ago, but we're still trying to pull corks from wine bottles without breaking them. The wine industry is stuck in the past.

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  I will say the overall quality of wine has gone up substantially in the past few decades. You may not be old enough to remember when wines were graded on a ten-point scale that rated wine for flaws. Today, defects are so rare that we no longer need that scale. Instead, we have a flawed 100-point scale that only uses the top 15 points. Oh well.

  Winemaking uses lots of carbon dioxide, water, and electricity. That all can and should change. The wine industry is full of white males. Okay, it's not the only industry with this problem, but after the recent issues at the old-fashioned sounding Court of Master Sommeliers it seems like they're stuck in a previous century with cheating and sexual harassment scandals.

  We use trees that take many decades to grow to make wood barrels after the wood is seasoned for months. The staves are bent and toasted before metal hoops are put on. After all that, the barrels aren't perfect, plus they can't be used very many times. Then there are those big, heavy glass bottles just in one size with a piece of tree bark as a closure that has plenty of its own flaws.

  You might as well still use sailing ships to transport wine around the world.

  Nope, I don't have the answers, just wondering why.  There's no central leadership anywhere in the industry, which is probably a good thing. There is a fear of change in the marketplace, and that's a bad thing.