Archive for the ‘Wine Business’ Category
Should wine bloggers and wine publicist/marketers get together…just to look each other in the eye and see what each other has to say and think? I started thinking about this after getting an email inviting me TO THIS CONFAB of fashion bloggers and fashion publicists. It’s a pretty good idea and something that has been bandied about here and there among other wine bloggers. But it seems like now and again we see stories in the blogosphere and in the…
Magic and Mystery. Nothing is a greater enemy to magic and mystery than Technology. It’s no coincidence that authority of the churches has declined in fairly direct proportion to the development of new technology that delivered new insight into the natural world. Technology is the killer of innocence. I can not escape this conclusion as I read that scientists in Australia are working on the creation of a "Cybernose", a technology using insights from the natural world that will allow…
Last week Eric Asimov of the New York Times visited Bucklin’s Old Hill Ranch here in Glen Ellen. Eric drove up the gravel road in a black Dodge Magnum rental that looked ominously like a hearse. I thought he might be there to bury us. It was one of those beautiful days in Glen Ellen where the afternoon temperature is about 92 there’s a slight breeze coming up the valley from the North and it was pretty quiet all around….
FERMENTATION has obtained a copy of an e-mail that the Wine & Spirit Wholesalers Association’s (WSWA) president Juanita Duggan sent to a number of trade associations yesterday, a day before the release of a "survey" on on-line alcohol sales. The e-mail strikes this writer as a "stick this in your bottle" kind of parting communication that comes on the eve of Duggan’s departure from the world of wine. Duggan is doing her best in the waning hours she has at…
America’s grapegrowers and winemakers want your attention and want your support. They want your dollars and they want your loyalty. The question is how to get it? One way to raise the profile of wines is to do some marketing. And that’s exactly what the grapegrowers in Lake, Sonoma, Mendocino and the Lodi area had in mind when they created commissions that would assess growers in the area to create a fund for marketing their regions fine wine grapes and…
