Archive for the ‘Wine Business’ Category
I recall, a year or so ago, sitting in a public hearing of the Sonoma County General Plan Committee. Under discussion was the proposed regulation to be incuded in the new general plan that any winery in Sonoma County must buy 70% of its grapes from Sonoma County vineyards. The proposed rule was meant to keep large "industrial" (as they called them) wineries that import grapes from across the state from sullying our county. The proposed ruled also was a…
Well, I read it…and with great anticipation. Hugh McLeod’s "Stormhoek’s Guide To Wine Blogging" was something I really was looking forward to reading. In the first place Hugh has proven himself quite the forward thinker when it comes to communicating anew in the world of blogs and on-line for the purpose of business development. He’s also used his popular Gaping Void Blog to help promote Stormhoek Winery, a South African venture that has done quite well in the UK and…
I continue to be amazed at the various and new ways by which entrepreneurs are figuring out how to sell wine on the Internet. And I get the impression that it’s only the tip of the iceberg. RadCru.com is a new and pretty cool concept. We met them via their work with Inertia Beverage Group and have helped RadCru just a little bit with their upcoming launch of what looks to be very interesting. What they are doing is pretty…
Jason Walsh is a UK writer who, according to his blog "Design of the Nation", takes on issues of design, culture, politics and technology. I think that just about covers everything. Included in this bag of issues Mr. Walsh covers is, apparently, wine. In a post today, Walsh offers an interesting notion: That including varietal information on a wine label (Cabernet, Chardonnay, Merlot, etc) as most of the New World wines do, equates to dumbing down wine and allows consumers…
If you are a mere consumer of wine, rather than a seller of wine, I realize it’s a bit tough to get your panties in a bunch over an obscure state law that really only affects wineries. Yet considering the state, the date and the truly unAmerican aspect of the law in question, let’s see if we can’t wrinkle up those undergarments of yours. Since the 1980s Virginia’s wineries have been able to produce their wine and sell it to…
