For those out there interested in the machinations involved in filing for a winery trademark here are some of the relevant details. Hold on, this could get ugly.  Trademarks originated in the middle ages in trade guilds. Most guilds would have a requirement that their members use a specific mark on goods made under the [...]

We have, at long last, settled on a winery name and in doing so we’ve happily stayed true to our roots as a family run company. Copozzi was the last name of my great grandmother Maria Giovanna who was the first of our clan to make wine, a continent away in Pennsylvania. Maria Giovanna would have unspecified white grapes shipped [...]

Tomorrow morning we’ll be having a chat and deciding on the winery name and hammering out some other details. Exciting times! I’d like to thank everyone who submitted a suggestion, your feedback has been a real boost for all of us here. Also a shout out to Tom Wark at Fermentation. His blog is one [...]

A teacher of mine once described wine as liquid music, and spoke passionately about how it has the power to touch your soul and inspire you. I’m undoubtedly enjoying a love affair with pinot, but what inspires me isn’t the just the wine, it’s the people behind the glass I’m drinking. One of the major [...]

In Principals and Practices of Winemaking, Roger Boulton, Vernon Singleton, Linda Bisson and Ralph Kunkee of UC Davis devote a large part of their opening chapter to the planning and other considerations you need to address before making wine commercially. Some of it consists of lists of questions covering finance and regulatory areas such as: [...]