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Yineng Tu and Tim Elliot Floss the Organic Cotton

From the looks of it he is enjoying himself. Great shot, and he was going to be the last person on the samples list but at the 11th hour Tim from Winecast sent in a pic of himself toiling over a blog post. Looking at the snow out his window I started to feel [...]

Divorce, Catchy Pinot Words, and My Pussy

Interesting (and perhaps not so interesting) wine news.
A Billionaire Divorce –
And Not a Lawyer in Sight
Tim and Edra Blixseth spent 25 years building a $2 billion life together.
When they decided to divorce, they spent a single afternoon in the Beverly Hills Hotel, dividing it all up. With just two notebooks and a bottle of wine, [...]

Capozzi in the News

In the first major news coverage of our Second Life winery project, an article is running today in the National Post (sort of the Canadian equivalent of USA Today) by journalist Danny Bradbury. Sadly the story is firewalled behind the Post’s pay section so I can’t link to it. Instead you can read the text [...]

Wine, Cheeseheads and the Shirt

Jeff from Good Grape and Inertia sends along this photo of him in front of Lambeau field in Wisconsin. Great shot of Jeff and the home of the frozen tundra. I can almost hear the voice of NFL films, Harry Kalas, intoning the words.
Here’s how Jeff tells it:
In a “Where’s Waldo” kind of way [...]

Becoming Sustainable

I was talking to a local photographer today on the phone who is starting a pinot vineyard in Graton, and I know a bunch of other prospective growers check in once in a while so this link is for you. It comes from the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service and it outlines the benefits and [...]