Forty Dollar Wine, Some Festivals, And More Blah Blah Blah…
Gazette.net reports that the 2006 Blank Ankle Crumbling Rock, a Governor’s Cup winner, is selling like hotcakes.
“We have probably sold 150 cases. It’s been going like crazy,” O’Herron said recently.
Clearly my snarky jabs at the wine prices at Black Ankle aren’t working. Forty dollars a bottle and the wine is flying out the door. The recession is over!
Seriously, though, I’m having trouble getting my head around this. A wine, made from fruit grown in Frederick County, is going for $40 and demand hasn’t even blinked.
Link to Crumbling Rock info page.
More prattling about wine, social media, bloggers, and the societal value of such over at Dr. Vino. Dr. Vino himself will be giving the keynote address at the annual meeting of the California Association of Winegrape Growers.
Much of my talk in Sacramento will focus on wine blogs as well as “social media,” such as Twitter, Facebook, Open Wine Consortium, or the group Wine 2.0.
Were I giving the talk, here’s my short version: It’s coming, people. Hire a college kid as an intern to manage your Facebook/Twitter/Blog identity. Do it now.
Finally, Howard Country Times put out a rundown of major festivals upcoming during 2009 in Maryland and on the East Coast. The usual suspects are there (Wine In The Woods), there’s info on Wine Festivals in New Orleans and Aspen. Either would make a nice road trip.
