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Wine and Immigration

There have been a number of news stories on the effects of immigration on the wine industry the past few days.
The first story I read, on Sanluisobisbo.com and written by the Associated Press, does a good job of putting a human face on the plight of recently laid off vineyard workers. In an interview with [...]

Hugh and Stormhoek Publish Wine Blogging Guide

Talk about building goodwill in the industry. Hugh over at gapingvoid and Stormhoek teamed up to produce a wine-centric version of Robert Scoble’s Corporate Blogging Manifesto.
Hugh, who was a case study in Scoble’s excellent book Naked Conversations and has influenced many other wine bloggers including myself and people like Jeff Lefevere at Good Grape, [...]

Hat Creek Ranch

Due to our small size, we think that it will be possible to actually get to know many of you. Besides meeting you in person at a tasting or event, we are always brainstorming others ways to connect and involve the great people we’re sure to meet as we venture into selling our wines. One [...]

Digg Dot Com - for Wine

Winelifetoday.com is aspiring to be the digg of the wine world. Instead of digging articles though, you toast them.
Digg itself is expanding to politics, sports entertainment and other areas, so why not a social bookmarking site for wine?
Everything you would expect to be there is, such as tag clouds, bookmarklets and code snips to add [...]

Website Design Meeting with Inertia

EDIT: There’s a great conversation in the comments below where Inertia CEO Paul Mabray answers many of my agruments for having a single screen cart. Be sure to check it out.
Tomorrow Next Thursday I’ll be meeting with Dan, an account manager from Inertia Beverage Group to go over their REthink Engine and Wine [...]