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John Williams’ Organic Farming Manifesto

Note: The site transfer is finally over and the blog is now functioning normally. Thanks for your patience!
Last week I attended Advanced Topics in Organic Winemaking over at Frog’s Leap in Rutherford. It was organized by the Napa Valley Grapegrowers and featured a number of interesting speakers discussing the costs and benefits of true organic [...]

Wine Blogging Manifesto

Hugh over at gapingvoid has published a rough draft of his Wine Blogging Manifesto. If you are already on board the cluetrain and know all about web 2.0, this is nothing new. But Hugh is a marketer by trade and presents a compelling argument in favor of wine blogging aimed at the non-techie types that [...]

Organic Viticulture

I’m off to Napa to attend a conference on topics in Organic Winegrowing. Some of the more interesting presentations will be on sustainability and the Costs of Organic farming series of talks.
I’ve reproduced the list of presentations below and I’ll comment on the more interesting ones later this evening.
Should be good times.
Also, I’m still waiting [...]

Sour Grapes

From News.com.au:

A DISGRUNTLED grape grower allegedly plotted to blow up a Victorian winery and make it look like a terrorist attack, a court has been told.
Bergamin Wines and Spirits managing director Steven Bergamin allegedly planned to blow up Gapsted Winery, in northeast Victoria, as a payback for undercutting the price of grapes.
He allegedly struck a [...]

For the Wine Lover Who Has Everything

From Good Grape
This article that I found on a wine news aggregation site, Wine Science News, from a U.K. newspaper, speculates that growing binge drinking leading to potential alcoholism might be the result of … larger wine glasses.
I do believe I’ve located the culprit; the insidious, unholy cause of the binge drinking epidemic spreading throughout [...]