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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 [...]
New Image of Wine Aerator-VIDEO
New electronic aerator from Image of Wine
Our Take on Aeration 101-The Spreathe
When Image of Wine decided to expand its product offering we looked into aerators. We sampled all the aerators we could find in the marketplace. We even ask a glass artist to explore crafting an aerator that would aerate yet be almost a kind of art. All of which is to say, we spent a [...]
Bamboo Wine Glass Coasters
Why is it that something as simple as a coaster can and didbecome complicated and scientific? Maybe it is a latent engineer coming to the forefront. Well, after a year Image of Wine launched the first of a series of Eco products and Bamboo is at the heart of the line. We tried to understand: [...]
Wine and Chocolates-Now who’s crazy
When Image of Wine started promoting chocolates paired with wine we invoked the name of Jerry Comfort of Beringer Wines and a few others. Nonetheless we received askance looks of disbelief that this was a market, even leading up to the holidays. A friend of mine at Rodney Strong Vineyards just brought to our attention [...]
Wine Aerators-Are they worth the effort?
I have the propaganda about the use of aerators, read reviews, used a lot of different styles, and talked to winery tasting room folks about their opinions. The reviews are like noses; everyone has one. Here is my take and I will admit, it is worth what you paid for it. The function of any [...]
What wine with what food…Personally, I don’t care but some do!
I received a piece of mail today from “American Wine Cellars” that layed out logically and very simply…The Pairings. 1. Heavy meals generally call for full-bodied wines, and light meals call for light-bodied wines. 2. Fatty meals tend to go well with acidic reds. 3. Salty foods work well with acidic whites. 4. Spicy foods are [...]
New Corporate Branding or Gift/Favor Idea
Image of Wine has developed a high-end Wine Bottle Stopper that is the ultimate in branding/identity options for companies and large private events. The imbedded medallion is individually designed of solid metalsthat are inlayed into the top crown of our line of specially designed bottle stoppers. These medallions are manufactured using the same process of stamping as used by the US [...]
Interesting…retail wine shops in Wine Country
“Lots of people talk about taking the mystique out of wine…but Mark Pope is doing it,” says San Francisco Chronicle. I have never met the man, don’t know anything about him personally and if I ever saw him I wouldn’t even know who he was. I don’t endorse him and have no need to grind an [...]
When The Rivers Ran Red-Wine Country History
“When The Rivers Ran Red” now out in paperback from Macmillan Publishing. Author-Vivienne Sosnowski who lives in Wine Country.l