There are lots of little tactics that I’ve collected over the past year that I thought were great ways to provide a remarkable experience to guests at our future tasting room. Hospitality is king in the wine industry and any way to make a guest remember their visit to your winery in a positive way [...]
October 20, 2006
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Copia may be in trouble financially, but they have been scheduling quite a few interesting events lately. The best of the lot is the “Oregon’s Best Pinot Noir” tasting on November 19th which will focus on the Dundee Hills AVA. Producers pouring there will include Argyle, Domaine Drouhin Oregon, Domaine Serene, Erath and Sokol Blosser. [...]
October 20, 2006
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From my referrer logs I know I get quite a bit of traffic from folks who are interested in starting their own vineyards. If that describes you then this post is definitely for you. I just received an email from the Trellis Alliance letting me know that Australia has just released the culmination of their [...]
October 20, 2006
A bunch of other wine bloggers have already mentioned Vinolin but I thought that I’d add to the chorus. It’s a great one stop shop for what’s been happening in the wine blogosphere. I manage probably 120 wine RSS feeds in my Netvibes homepage, which was a bit of a pain to compile and takes [...]
October 20, 2006
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Last May I wrote about the very interesting work of a UCD grad student named Kirsten Skogerson. This week she and Dr. Roger Boulton released a spreadsheet with their predictive model baked in. In essence the model promises to allow rapid analysis of phenolics such as tannins and anthocyanins (red and purple pigments responsible for [...]
October 23, 2006
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