Chances are good that if not for Robert Mondavi, I would not be in this business. And I didn’t even know him. A friend from Southern called me today and said he had the same thought as he was driving. I suspect, if you are in the industry, you had a similar experience reflecting on [...]
May 9, 2008
In honor of Alice Fiering’s recent call to dump the whole of California’s wine production down the nearest sewer pipe, I thought it might be fitting to look back in time to a period where France didn’t have a defender as vocal and virtuous as Alice. A time when the headlines screamed disarray for the [...]
May 7, 2008
This marks my first ever Wine Blogging Wednesday, a tradition started by Lenn over at Lenndevours sometime in the Neolithic period of the wine blogging timeline. I’m happy to finally join in the festivities. The wine type this month, chosen by Tim at Winecast, is Old World Riesling, which worked out great for me. I [...]
May 5, 2008
For the past couple months I’ve been using twitter.com to catalogue smaller day to day items such as winery related marketing stuff, interesting links that don’t warrant entire posts, Sonoma County Wine Library info (where I’m serving as President for 2008) and other ephemera. There is a vibrant daily conversation happening among the wired wine [...]
May 16, 2008
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