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The Business of Birthing Wine

Note: I started this post way back in October. There are some interesting things I want to say about natural birth and natural wines, and I will, but not today. Today my wife is in labor and will be giving birth to my baby girl Charli. It’ll be a natural childbirth once again (barring an [...]

Inertia Buys New Vine: Revelations

In my previous post on New Vine (formerly New Vine Logistics), I listed 4 questions I had about the abrupt closure. Thanks to the absolutely stellar reporting of Lewis Perdue at Wine Insights (be sure to subscribe if you don’t already), it looks like I’ve gotten some answers. But first, the juicy stuff from Lewis’ [...]

FAIL: I’ve Had My Share

“The first director I had at Second City said, ‘You have to learn to love the bomb,’ and I didn’t know what he meant for a very long time. …But there’s a buzz to failing and not dying.” - Stephen Colbert So the wine blogger scholarship contest, the one where if enough people submitted applications [...]

New Vine Logistics Aftermath: Questions

UPDATE: Lewis Perdue at Wine Industry Insight has the best article yet published on the closure. His reporting appears more accurate than mainstream newspapers. He’s a blogger by the way. Highly recommended. Usually I use this blog to express my views and opinions, but today I just have questions regarding the NVL closure. According to [...]