You’d Better Have a Good Reason For Changing a Name, and Jeremy Baker Did
This is what I was told in my wine sales and marketing class that I took ages ago. We were handed this assignment: SCENARIO: You’ve just bought an existing winery. Do all of the following. Then, be prepared to present your marketing plan for this winery to us, the two professors who taught the class [...]
All the Crazy Things Said About and Done With Petite Sirah ~ Episode 2
File this one under CLASSIC: This is what happens when just anyone can get onto the Internet and write whatever he or she pleases. When it involves Petite Sirah, I’m going to find it. And if it doesn’t make any sense, I’m going to dispel it. I’ve tried the more direct route, by searching out [...]
What An Extraordinary Read With Unrivaled Visuals
Wine’s Hidden Beauty by Sondra Barrett, PhD, is a walk in the wilds of a microscope. Sondra delivers the heart and soul of wine like we’ve never experienced it before… Or have we? Have we journeyed to the life that exists within a bottle of wine intuitively before, but just not recognized it in our [...]
Thanking My Grindstone Cowboy ~ Behind Every Woman, There’s a Great Man
If you’re reading this, and have read my blog in the past, you’re seeing my new look. I just got a make-over, and I have to thank Jose… my webmaster, hero, and all-around great guy. For perhaps a year now, he’s been encouraging me to refresh Wine-Blog’s look; not because there was anything intrinsically wrong [...]
Do you need inspiration… A wine with sensation?
As you’re grillin’ your steak this Fourth of July And suggesting to folks what wine they should buy, Please think of a wine with American roots. Give your family and friends a wine they can toot… Sirah with an “i” is all that I ask, While swimmers are swimmin’, and sunbathers bask. The dads will [...]
Calling all you graphic art students, who might love creating a wine label
There’s a great new contest that just launched called “The Canvas Artist Series Contest.” It’s sponsored by Hyatt Hotels & Resorts and Folio Fine Wine Partners (Michael Mondavi’s wine company). According to Michael Mondavi: “It’s an honor to develop a special blend for a hotel company of Hyatt’s caliber. Our goal for Canvas was to [...]
What’s The Wine Industry’s Unperceived Future?
Beyond Bill HR 5034 being passed… As I was about to dive into page 37 of Sondra Barrett’s Wine’s Hidden Beauty, I read the follow title and entrance to the sentence… And began to ponder. Sondra wrote: The Critics A great controversy brews in the wine industry. Are wine critics….. That’s were my blink happened, [...]
