Everyone wants to be loved. Everyone wants to be understood. And everyone wants to be acknowledged – to stand out from their peers. The paradox is that to get the third thing, you need to put the first two in jeopardy. Chateau Petrogasm, a blog that reviews wine using only a single picture, is doing [...]

A quick link to a pretty fantastic article by Wired contributor Lore Sjöberg who engages in some creative wine gadget imagineering. Some of his proposed creations sound pretty freakin’ cool. Automatic Wine Twirler The first thing you do with a glass of wine is swirl it. I’m led to understand that there are sound gastronomic [...]

Congrats to Mary Baker at Dover Canyon on a great write-up in BusinessWeek. Mary is, hands down, the best winery writer out there. Her posts are detailed, authentic and beautifully written. In other words she has real talent. Like her other readers I just wish she had more time to write. As far as the [...]

Alan Campbell, noted photographer and vineyard owner sends in a couple of fantastic pics of him at the Burning Man. In the shirt. I think the shirt looks right at home on the playa. I’m happy to report that Alan didn’t get ejected by a mob of angry artists for attempting to commercialize the burn. [...]

Here’s another winery blog for your list Mike! I met Morgan Twain-Peterson almost exactly a year ago at the OIV Wine Marketing course at Davis, just before my son was born. We hit it off immediately. We sat in the very back of the class and talked about the industry almost as much as we [...]