So I received the most recent issue of the American Journal of Enology and Viticulture in the mail last night. Flipping through the articles and research notes and speed reading to find the juicy stuff, I usually just skip to the conclusions and only back-read when I find something particularly interesting. Thats exactly what happened [...]
March 26, 2007
A little over a month ago I did an email interview with Mike Duffy about our Second Life Winery project for North Bay Biz magazine. But it wasn’t until just recently, while shopping at Fiesta Market in Sebastapol, that I caught a glimpse of the mag and picked it up. Here’s a link to the [...]
March 22, 2007
I had the pleasure of sharing an hour of my Sunday last weekend with Tim Elliott, Jeff Lefevere, and Andrew Barrow talking about wine and the wine industry. It was my first podcast, and I enjoyed it. There’s some good discussion of the 100 point rating system, Parker, Twitter, some shameless shilling for Capozzi. I [...]
March 21, 2007
Allan London, a CPA out of San Francisco and a board member of Goosecross Cellars in Napa, sent me a fantastic financial spreadsheet last week and asked me to share it with everyone. If you’ve ever dreamed about starting up your own winery, you owe it to yourself to play around with this spreadsheet. It [...]
March 19, 2007
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From the SF Chronicle: Mark Anderson, 58, is accused of setting the fire to cover up evidence in an fraud case. Anderson, the owner of Sausalito Cellars, subleased space at Wine Central, which was destroyed in the in the October 2005 fire. Authorities said Anderson, 58, sold wine that he was supposed to be storing [...]
March 30, 2007
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