Chances are you’ve heard that wine grows well around Napa and Sonoma in northern California. You might even be familiar with the vineyards in central-southern California around San Luis Obispo north of L.A. But unless you’ve been there yourself, chances are you’ve never heard of the foothills wine country east of Sacramento, aptly named for [...]
Spotted in a market in Brooklyn: high quality Chateau Diana “Wine Product.” Fantastic. Goes great when paired with pasteurized cheese product. Chateau Diana looks like a legitimate winery. The labels look like real wine. Contained within, however, is something else… The zealots at Chowhound exposed the Wine Product for what it is, fortified wine-like alcohol. [...]
See what I did there in the headline? Wine, made from grapes… got crushed. Get it? Anyway. The backdoor slider that got Direct Wine Shipping onto the Winery Modernization Act got withdrawn on Tuesday. Daily Record Records: In the end, Zirkin acquiesced to those who asked him to withdraw his amendment – “I wish you [...]
I posted a short bit on Wells Discount Liquors and, thus, became a wine blogger. Fortune and Glory ensued. At the time, my goal was to cover Maryland and Virginia Wines as they tried to grow from also-rans into respectable wine regions. Since then I have published 217 posts (and at least 400 typos) about [...]
Creative Commons licensed image from Flickr user protographer23 Last week, Wine Business broke the sad news that uber-retailer Amazon is ending their push into the online wine retailing space. This comes on the heels of the much quieter news that Costco.com is ending their online wine sales. These two companies, Amazon and Costco, total $92 [...]
If you’re in sales or marketing, wine industry or not, you’ll probably enjoy this YouTube video posted by MrWineguy101. The automated voices and blocky cartoons just make it funnier. There is some colorful language, so don’t watch if you’re not into that sort of thing. Headphones advised at the office.
First boxed wine, then screwcaps, now this. Baltimore Sun reports that Maryland wineries and restaurants are thinking plastic bottles might be the way to go instead of big, clunky, impossible to efficiently ship glass. Quoth the article: “The wine doesn’t know what package it is in,” said W. R. Tish, a wine educator who writes [...]
Creative Commons licensed image from Flickr user bubble dumpster Even more baffling than the wine industries’ supposed struggle with using social media is their apparent struggle with marketing to the Millennial generation. All sorts of studies and blogs are dedicated to this goal: helping wineries market to people in their twenties. I must be missing [...]
Ate at Woodberry Kitchen in Clipper Mill the other night. I wasn’t so impressed with Woodberry Kitchen the first time I went there, but on this night it was fantastic. They really knocked it out of the park on every level. Pretzel-sausage-cheese-thing: awesome. Wood fired chicken: superb. Braised short ribs: heavenly. Service: outstanding. Sixty dollar [...]
Creative Commons licensed image from Flickr user kiki99 Dr. Vino led a charge last week in posting an email exchange pointing out that an employee of The Wine Advocate, the uber-publication run by uber-critic Robert Parker, may have gotten a little hook-up on a recent tasting trip. In a recent thread, Jay Miller was shown [...]
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