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 [...]

…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 [...]

So I haven’t been one of those early adopters of Twitter, the “micro blogging” service that took the tech nerd world by storm earlier this year. Personally I happen to think that the fact that you’re “doing laundry right now, in one big load” is about as interesting as…well as interesting as talking about laundry. [...]

At least according to David Stipp in his article on Christoph Westphal and David Sinclair’s biotech start-up Sirtris. I can tell you I’m a believer. I’ve been taking resveratrol for the past two months and, coupled with a decent diet (which of course confounds resveratrol’s efficacy) I’ve lost over 20 pounds. Anecdotal evidence is all [...]

I was reading a post over at Winecast where Tim was lamenting the lack of Wine 2.0 posts. This, then, is my contribution. For me Wine 2.0 really was just a fun way to put a face to a stream of online text. For instance, I got to look El Jefe of Twisted Oak in [...]