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Pine Mountain-Cloverdale Peak AVE Is Here
Celebrate a new AVA in Sonoma Wine Country-Pine Mountain-Cloverdale Peak AVA
Biodynamic…don’t get it confused with Organic
If you are a real afficianado of the environment then Demeter Biodynamic Certification is the gold standard. In Sonoma and Napa Counties there are about 22 wineries that have a Biodynamic Certification. The count can be misleading because the Biodynamic Certification is more about the vineyards-the source of the grapes. If a winery owns vineyards [...]
Bird’s eye view of Napa
It takes all kinds of interesting people to make a company thrive. That same concept can apply to Wine Country. To make Wine Country an exceptional destination for a small luxury corporate meeting, it takes diverse interests and personal commitments to customers. Gabe Gundling was born in Napa, attended high school in Napa and earned [...]
Went to Indiana wine country
The wineries as such, are spread far apart and the quality, as I assess it, is equally far apart… Made some sales calls last week at wineries around Indianapolis. Impressed with 2-Mallow Run and Oliver. It is still hard to accept that blackberries and peaches are used to make what they defend as wine-in addition [...]
Toasting Should Not Be Taken For Granted
My first exposure to the seriousness of “toasting” came from my time in the US Navy. The protocol and etiquette of “toasting” is even written in manuals; everything from the hierarchy of what and whom to toast to when to stand and even how to pass the wine/port. “Toasting” to this day is evident in [...]
Keeper of the Napa Valley Spirit-The Winery Definition Ordinance
The ordinance that regulates winery events and tasting activity in Napa is called the Winery Definition Ordinance (WDO) and originated in 1990. This ordinance gives wineries the authority to host events and pair wine with food as part of a wine marketing, education, etc. event. But the rules state that wineries may host functions only [...]
Aerating Glasses-New handmade, mouth blown wine glasses
We are offering on a test basis some new wine glasses we found from an artist in Seattle. These are elegant, light weight, sturdy and made of a special formula that is most similar to the quality of lab glass. What makes them unique is the spiraling ridges (I call them veins) that are on [...]
Learned Something new…
Hot pans and pots on a cold countertop made of stone will or can cause the stone countertop to crack. A company that imports stone countertops wanted to use our trivets in a photo shoot of some of their countertops for an ad. They recommend to all their customers that they use trivets with anything [...]
Gifts for attendees of meetings or events..
I’m reading an article in “Successful Meetings Magazine” and there was a brief discussion about the importance of providing gifts (as they called them, I prefer “recognition of attendance”) for people participating in events. Such gifts, they propose, are a lasting memento of things experienced and/or learned. That is precisely what Image of Wine is [...]
So your thinking about getting into the wine business!
Quote: “Who never drinks wine is a lamb, who drinks properly, is a lion, who drinks too much is a pig.” – from an inscription on an ancient Roman winery ruins discovered in southern Italy. I started my career in the travel business at Trans World Airlines selling incentive programs and corporate meetings. Along the [...]