I never buy a case of wine when I go wine tasting. I’ll buy maybe 6 bottles, but never a case. I just don’t make that kind of coin. However, a couple weeks ago, I simply had to do it. My family and I followed some friends of ours up to Russian River. Our first [...]
In Napa, it’s been a very strange spring, summer and fall this year. We got a late start to summer and the summer really wasn’t much of a summer except for a very short period of time where it got pretty hot. Now the rain we’ve gotten over the last week isn’t too strange for [...]
Yes, I’ve fallen victim to the common issue with blogs…not updating it for a friggin’ long time. I guess it’s just one of those things where you need to balance all that’s going on in life with wanting to publish a blog entry. Oh well, I will attempt to keep this more up to date. [...]
I attended a great event yesterday in Napa. It was the Napa Valley Tweetup (#napavalleytweetup – for all you Twitter fiends). I have never been to a Tweetup before, so, I had no idea what to expect. In fact, I just started really getting into Twitter last year. I put the vinoEZ brand out their [...]
Man, I love the wine industry!!! I was lucky enough to spend some time with Gary Archer, Operations Manager at Gary Farrell. A few weeks ago I drove up to the beautiful Russian River area to meet up with Gary. We met at his office located on the lovely property of the Gary Farrell Winery. [...]
I sat down a couple weeks ago with Rich Bouwer, General Manager for California Glass, to talk about his take on the wine supply chain. We covered topics ranging from the impact the economy is having on the wine business to collaborating with others in the wine supply chain. It was great to catch up [...]
Why is planning important? Hmm… good question. Let’s answer it with a question (I hate when people do that, but hey…what the heck). What if you just woke up and got dressed with whatever you felt like wearing without finding out what the weather was going to be like for the day? Given the day [...]
With all of this social networking and “web 2.0” infiltrating our lives, it’s got me thinking how this will play out in the world of wine. Obviously there’s a lot of people and companies going down this path. New Facebook pages popping up and more tweets to follow. This was a significant topic at the [...]
I was at Mustards yesterday having some lunch with my Mom and my Aunt. I was having a nice glass of chardonnay from MacRostie. Now, I don’t have the ability to dissect the taste and aroma of wine. That’s just not my bag. I’ll leave that to the mags and bloggers that breakdown wines for [...]
I’m very excited! Having vinoEZ.com up and running is but one of many steps I’ve taken to making a dream come true: bringing my background and expertise to an industry that is fascinating and personally rewarding. vinoEZ is about bringing very practical business models that have worked for many years in other industries to the [...]
