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Winery Blogging In BusinessWeek

Congrats to Mary Baker at Dover Canyon on a great write-up in BusinessWeek. Mary is, hands down, the best winery writer out there. Her posts are detailed, authentic and beautifully written. In other words she has real talent. Like her other readers I just wish she had more time to write.
As far as the article [...]

New Winery Blog: Bedrock Wine Co.

Here’s another winery blog for your list Mike!
I met Morgan Twain-Peterson almost exactly a year ago at the OIV Wine Marketing course at Davis, just before my son was born. We hit it off immediately. We sat in the very back of the class and talked about the industry almost as much as we listened [...]

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 [...]

Bashing The 100 Point Scale

The article in the SF Chronicle today by W. Blake Gray does a good job of explaining the dynamics of an industry driven by recommendations. It also does a good job of pointing out what can happen when a handful of gatekeepers serve as the main source of those recommendations.
But sentiments like this irk [...]

Bench grafts: Pinotblogger Wine Links

Free Phone Notification For Wine Delivery
In a recent post on wine getting overheated in the back of delivery trucks, Jake pointed me to one of his posts over at the Grape Thinking blog that mentions that UPS will provide a courtesy phone call alerting wine buyers that their shipment will arrive the next day.
I [...]