HeyJaredJourneys in Wine Economics
This collects writings of Rachel Ziemba on wine and spirits, with a lens on business, economics and trade issues. She'll add trip notes and musings on wine trade, demand and impacts of climate change
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Friuli-Venezia-Giulia and Primorska (Slovenia): Exploring the Borderlands (opens the original)
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This is the second part of my wine trip report from a recent (June 2026) visit to North East Italy. Part 1 is here. This part focuses on my takeways from some tastings in the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) and the regions in Slovenia which border it, which share some common varietals and attributes. Friuli-Venezia Giulia: In FVG, there are 12 DOC areas and 4 DOCG areas in the region, including several in the hills, and others in the lowlands closer to the Isonzo river delta and th
North East Italy Part 1: Trentino, Veneto and Beyond (opens the original)
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On a recent trip, I traversed Italy’s north-eastern corner, including several regions that were once either part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire or served as the frontier. The trigger for the trip was the European Association of Wine Economists, hosted in Trieste and Koper (Slovenia) about which I wrote recently. This area has long been a cross-roads from the Adriatic to the more inner parts of central Europe and a range of products, including wine, made this journey along these trade routes. Thi
A few America 250 wine reads (opens the original)
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Stay tuned: wine region reports from Sicily, Northern Italy and England are coming this summer. Keen followers of this substack and its companion geo-economic one know that I like to recommend readings. On this 4th of July, a couple of books about the intersection of US history and alcohol consumption and production seem appropriate. Many of them end up addressing issues of how alcohol taxes including tariffs impacted both the US economy and politics and its relations with the world. While alcoh
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