I mentioned a Cornell study that showed that when people thought a wine was from California they ate 12% 11% more than when they thought it was from North Dakota in a recent post, but failed to provide a link. Well, here it is. Pretty interesting stuff.

Today’s announcement that Inertia has been developing a comprehensive free compliance tool for wineries is really fantastic news for the industry – and especially so for small producers. That Inertia is also opening the system up so that fulfillment houses (and even point of sales systems located in tasting rooms) can access and use the [...]

In a closed and largely privately held industry like Wine it can be hard to find solid financial numbers to judge your performance against. One of the very best sources of information on the profit picture for northern CA wineries comes from Silicon Valley Bank’s Wine Division. SVB has been lending to Sonoma and Napa [...]

Thanks to the efforts of Paul, fellow blogger Jeff and the whole team at Inertia, small wineries like ours will soon be able to take advantage of pull demand and on a very small scale let restaurants and wine shops in New York buy wine direct from the winery – but not really.. Overall this [...]

Those poor French. First we had the Judgment of Paris. After the Judgment of Paris we had the Re-Judgment of Paris. Then Francois Mauss declared that the dual-locale element of the Re-Judgment made the results unreliable and biased. Mauss set out to create a tasting that would even the playing field, selecting a vintage, 1995, [...]