Free Phone Notification For Wine Delivery In a recent post on wine getting overheated in the back of delivery trucks, Jake pointed me to one of his posts over at the Grape Thinking blog that mentions that UPS will provide a courtesy phone call alerting wine buyers that their shipment will arrive the next day. [...]

Just a quick note that I’ll be out in Ukiah on Thursday for a PR conference put on by the Mendocino Winegrape and Wine Commision. I’ll be talking about blogging and PR/Branding for (shudder) about an hour. Hopefully everyone won’t be glassy-eyed and drooling by the time I’m done. I’m told there’s wireless, so part [...]

…is cooked wine. Yuk. Jeff at Good Grape has an excellent post up today outlining the dangers of not being available to sign for your wine shipment when either UPS or Fedx attempts delivery. Many in the industry try and mitigate the dangers of having wine cooked in the back of a delivery truck by [...]

A bunch of other wine bloggers have already mentioned Vinolin but I thought that I’d add to the chorus. It’s a great one stop shop for what’s been happening in the wine blogosphere. I manage probably 120 wine RSS feeds in my Netvibes homepage, which was a bit of a pain to compile and takes [...]

Over at the REthink blog Paul writes about an interesting email he received from Jennie Haug from Titus Vineyards. In it Jenny points Paul to an article on the resurgence of the “porch sitting” phenomenon in Sonoma County and says that “as a winery I think it’s worth some pondering to consider how to apply [...]