Archive for the ‘Culture and Wine’ Category
If you aren’t reading the Atlantic Monthly on a regular basis…well, I’m just ashamed of you. It is one of the top five magazines in America. This month’s issue is terrific and something in it caught my eye: The Great P.J O’Rourke’s article on where Big Ideas will come from in the near future. Besides O’Rourke’s always witty prose, the writer uses some very interesting maps to demonstrate where in the world conditions exist that will promote innovation in the…
I’ve thought about it. Winemakers have and most certainly wine marketers have: Do women perceive wine differently than men. Not "do women react differently to wine packaging than men?" Not, "Do women serve or use wine differently than men"?" Rather, when women smell and taste wine do they have a different reaction than men would to the same wine? This appears to be the question that Women for Winesense, a national organization of women wine professionals, are attempting to answer…
The Wall Street Journal’s wine guides John Brecher and Dorothy Gaiter produced a thought provoking year end article today on the state of wine and trends they see. Among their most interesting observations is this one: "The first isn’t about wine itself, but the selling of it. This is the most revolutionary time in wine retailing since the end of Prohibition. The combination of the rise of Internet sales and the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down some laws concerning…
Is it just me or does anyone else have a hard time imagining Silver Oak Winery inhabiting the Roshambo Winery facility on Westside Road in Healdsburg? In fact, I can’t imagine any other winery successfully occupying this amazing facility. News broke today that Roshambo Winery sold its facility to Silver Oak Winery. This is the first time in a long time that I’ve found myself lamenting a sale in the wine industry. The brand is still owned by Naomi Brilliant…
I was thinking about naming this post "The Difference Between Forbes and BusinessWeek." But after thinking about it, I don’t think that makes sense. The readers of both Forbes and BusinessWeek articles probably belong in a similar demographic. So, let’s call it…"Covering Your Bases on All Fronts". Nick Passmore has certainly done this. For Forbes.com Passmore penned "The Most Expensive Champagnes of 2006," an interesting piece on the prestige Champagnes that will set you back upwards of $750 per bottle….
