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Average number of daily visitors to the Wine.com website. The on-line wine retailer, founded in 1998, soared to prominence (and success) during the Covid pandemic. Wine.com made $329 million in revenue in 2020. The current Wine.com business was a merger of eVineyard with Wineshopper.com in 2000. The e-retailer currently sells as much wine as 600 brick-and-mortar retail wine stores combined.

Both mezcal and tequila are Mexican spirits made from the agave plant. However, while not all mezcal is tequila, all tequila is mezcal.

Answer: True.

While many think mezcal is a type of tequila, the opposite is true. Any distilled spirit made from the agave plant is considered mezcal (the name itself comes from the Aztec word mexcalli, or "cooked agave"). Tequila, however, must specifically be made from the blue agave plant.

“A grade on an exam or relating to a student’s performance in a subject isn’t everything; it is just part of the story. A test grade tells you nothing of the student’s personality, style, or if you will even like them. Why? Because a score cannot begin to relate all those other qualities of a person or wine that are immeasurable. A score tells the reader nothing about the style and the character or personality of a wine. It doesn’t convey if the wine is light-bodied, perfumed and elegant or full-bodied, rich and generous. It doesn’t tell the reader if the wine is savory, fruity, spicy, herbaceous or toasty in character. It doesn’t convey if the wine is too young to drink, within its drinking window or over the hill.… This is why a well-written, accurate tasting note is as equally important as the score. Tasting notes should contain all the style, character and maturity information necessary to tell a potential buyer something about the experience she/he can expect from the wine and therefore—regardless of quality—whether they will like it. How can you know if you will like a wine if you do not know what it’s like?”

—Lisa Perrotti-Brown, editor-in-chief of The Wine Advocate, January 7, 2019

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