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The DaVino Code: Link Between Social Media and the Wine Industry
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There is endless analysis out there and supposition/assumption that social media is important to the wine industry. Some people claim the vision is over-blown and that traditional sales methods will dominate for a very long time to come. Those people would... (more)
Cava for the crisis?
Report in El Pais on Monday 1/12 notes that Cava production remains high despite negative forcast for holiday party spending. The article quotes a source from Cava giant Freixenet as saying production levels for cava are as high as ever and hinting that export sales results are superior to... (more)
Solomon Divides the Wine
Literally. A bit of a play on a reference there, but my final stop for the day in Murphys landed me at the Solomon Wine Company. Solomon divides their wine offerings into 3 groups, the Muse Wines, the Garsa Wines, and the Cloud 9 Wines. I had been at Solomon the night before and really [...] (more)
Ohio v Michigan Wine Clash: Results
div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"pOn Monday night, Kevin amp; I drove up to Columbus to judge the Ohio v Michigan wine clash. Of course, the point of all this is to Drink Local and perhaps make a smaller carbon footprint, and the winners will be sipped at a dinner in Columbus tomorrow... (more)
Poppies and Wine
Not exactly a combination I’d think of, but when I walked back to the Zucca Mountain tasting room, the tasting room attendant happened to be sitting outside packaging California Poppy Seeds. He kindly gave me a package to take home and suggested I plant them in containers if I’m trying to... (more)
Straight from the Barrel
pWhat are you doing Thanksgiving weekend? Do you want to escape your relatives? I have the perfect solution. /p
pFive of our local wineries (and vineyards) are a href="http://www.kinkeadridge.com/barreltasting.htm"offering a barrel tasting/a on Saturday, Nov 29. You can visit Harmony Hill,... (more)
3 Generations of Tanners
I strolled down Main Street to the Tanner tasting room dragging some wine with me. In retrospect that probably wasn’t the best idea as my wine case only got heavier after I left Tanner. I walked up to Tanner to find 3 generations of Tanners at the tasting room. Grandma, daughter, and... (more)
The wineries of Kick Ranch
Dick Keenan of Kick Ranch Vineyards and Carica Wines, in a follow-up from October’s Wine Bloggers Conference, sends along the following note:
[Friday, October 24th] turned out to be a perfect day for tasting some of the best Syrah, Petite Sirah, Viognier and Sauvignon Blanc from Kick Ranch,... (more)
No repeat for Freixenet's Scorsese ad
Last year Cava giant Freixenet made a big splash by hiring Martin Scorsese to a href="http://www.scorsesefilmfreixenet.com/"direct an ad/a that garnered a lot of attention via Internet views (over one million hits according to one Spanish economic newpaper, and a random search via YouTube shows... (more)
D.O. Emporda - the windy wine region
Last night the a href="http://www.doemporda.com"D.O. Empordà/a held a promotional event in Barcelona. The small and hilly a href="http://www.winesfromspain.com/icex/cda/controller/pageGen/0,3346,1549487_4946338_4944445_1032_-1,00.html"Empordà region/a is tucked into the northeast corner of... (more)
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