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Hats Off to Inertia - Free Compliance Tool Coming

Today’s announcement that Inertia has been developing a comprehensive free compliance tool for wineries is really fantastic news for the industry - and especially so for small producers. That Inertia is also opening the system up so that fulfillment houses (and even point of sales systems located in tasting rooms) can access and use the [...]

A Beautiful Sentiment…

bordering on poetry over at El Bloggo Torcido.
Tell me what you ate with the wine.
Tell me how the wine made you feel.
Tell me how it smelled.
Tell me what memories the wine evoked.
Tell me what senses were engaged.
Tell me what flavors excited you.
Tell me how it connected you with the people who made the wine, the [...]

The World’s Greatest Drunkard

Not that I condone excessive drinking, but this article on Modern Drunkard is really pretty entertaining. Andre the Giant, best known (by me) for his fantastic turn in the legendary Princess Bride, is by one author’s account the world’s greatest drunkard. The evidence? Compelling.

Andre drank 7,000 calories worth of booze every day
Andre once drank 16 [...]

Pinot Swilling Parker Zombies From Hell!

It’s either really early or really late for Halloween - take your choice - but when I saw that a guy named Len was offering to draw custom monsters based on a title of your choosing on his website Monsterbymail.com, I knew I had to get one.
So I chose “Pinot Swilling Parker Zombies From Hell!” [...]

The North Bay Business Journal 40 under 40

Just a quick congrats to my bud John for making the North Bay business journal 40 under 40 list. His recent success at getting Jordan ranked #1 for the first time in the Wine and Spirits Restaurant poll was quite an achievement indeed.
Here’s to continued success my friend.
John Jordan, 34, CEO, Jordan Vineyard and [...]