Winegrowing and Baseball – Rotobase

Tweet Wine and baseball are intertwined in the best of ways. Both the growing season and the playing season overlap almost perfectly. Pitchers and catchers report in February, foreshadowing the beginning of spring training. In the vineyard we prune and train our vines in February in anticipation of spring. Play begins in earnest in April, [...]

Charlie Palmer Pigs & Pinot – Customer Service EPIC FAIL

Tweet Charlie Palmer’s annual Pigs & Pinot event is a well regarded and, if this year is any indication, well attended event. Which is why it is both surprising and completely unacceptable to receive the following email: Dear Candace, We are very sad to bring this news to you today. Demand for Pigs & Pinot [...]

Climate Change and Wine Growing: One Farmer’s Opinion

Tweet A couple items in the news and the on the blogs prompted this post. First was the recent discussion by Jeff over at Good Grape about Tom Johnson’s (author of Louisville Juice) contention that wine bloggers don’t link to each other. One of the reasons for this, Jeff says, is because of the dearth [...]

W. Blake Gray On Why Amazon Really Quit Wine

Tweet Some very important reporting from W. Blake Gray. For the impatient, the reason is: taxes. Read the whole post.