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Happy Halloween

I’m off to a Halloween murder mystery party over at Jordan Winery. Happily I’ve learned I’ll be sitting near the Assistant Winemaker Ronald, so we’ll have plenty to talk about. Ronald is from South Africa and was trained at Stellenbosch. He also has a fantastic knack with storytelling.
Also attending will be Megyn Kendall from Fox [...]

Tasting Pinot with Robert Parker

Today I had the opportunity to sit with Robert Parker and a room full of other wine industry nuts at CIA Greystone in St. Helena and taste through a flight of 11 different Pinots from California and France blind. I’d been looking forward to this event since I heard about it here, and it did [...]

Capozzi and the “Metaverse”

Development on the Capozzi Winery Island in Second Life is starting in earnest now. I just put the finishing touches on a team that I think will be able to bring the vision to life and I’m very excited to get going.
The final piece of the puzzle was to find someone to code all the [...]

California Wins Yet Another Blind Tasting

Those poor French. First we had the Judgment of Paris. After the Judgment of Paris we had the Re-Judgment of Paris. Then Francois Mauss declared that the dual-locale element of the Re-Judgment made the results unreliable and biased. Mauss set out to create a tasting that would even the playing field, selecting a vintage, 1995, [...]

Pinotblogger in the Wall Street Journal

Just a quick note that Pinotblogger was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal today in their Blog Watch column. If you’re here from the WSJ, welcome!
I encourage you to start with the Our Story So Far page. There are a bunch of links off that page that chronicle the twists and turns of the past [...]