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 [...]

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 [...]

I finished a final estimate of the losses we incurred due to the insane cold snap this weekend. It came out to exactly 20%. 3.4 acres of Rebecca’s vineyard were hit and hit hard by the sub 30′s temps this past Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Below you can see the temp data from our RanchSystems [...]

There’s a general philosophy among open-minded Christians that basically boils down to: “Don’t sweat the small stuff.” When one denomination agrees with 90% of what the other has to say, why focus on the 10% that separates? I’ve held a similar attitude regarding Gary Vee since he burst on the scene a couple years ago. [...]

Are wineries that sell direct ruthlessly competing with the clicks and mortar crowd? That’s one of the questions David Williams poses in the latest issue of Wine and Spirit (UK). After taking the reader on an extensive survey of the past and present of online wine retailing, David asks whether the current buzz about wine/web [...]