What a dreary article. If the author put down her Marx for a moment and ventured out into the real world, she’d be able to tell a much different story. > the

What a dreary article. If the author put down her Marx for a moment and ventured out into the real world, she’d be able to tell a much different story. > the logic of late-stage capitalism dictates that new markets must be identified and aggressively pursued. With natural wine, a win-win situation emerges. The drinkers get the social capital, and the liquor industry gets the actual capital. In reality, the natural wine world is full of enthusiastic independent makers who are challenging the dominance of the old chateaux, and getting people as excited about $30 bottles as the previous generation was about $300 or $3000 bottles. Visit a natural wine fair, and you’ll find one-man operations making interesting wine that can compete again the big wineries.