This isn’t "Just Business".  It’s just MEAN! Someone over at Gallo should be ashamed of themselves. Pushing a homemaker this hard isn’t what businesses should do…particularly when no harm has been done. I’ve said a few mean things about Gallo in the past. They have been extraordinarily anti-wine industry in some cases. So they’ve deserved what I said. But this isn’t Anti-wine industry. It’s Anti-People.

Here is an example of why I am generally not opposed to Genetically Modified Organisms (generally called GMO’s, called "Frankenfoods" to others, and dubbed "Progress" some.) Over and over we see examples of Progesss GMO’s that can aid in significantly reducing obstacles to growing better and more efficient plants. With regard to vines, here are just a few of the modifications to grapes I’d like to see: -vines immune to the effects of Piece’s Disease-Vines less susceptible to mold and…

I was in a meeting today talking to a client about the foot print the wine industry leaves on the environment.  More often than not the media carries stories about a winery that planted illegally on a hillside or a winery that didn’t put into place sufficient erosion controls and allowed a large portion of a river or stream to be jammed up with silt and mud. What you don’t hear too much is the effort, the really leading edge…

"I don’t have time to learn about wine. But I like wine, so I buy something that clicks with me, that evokes a feeling or a memory, then I’ve already got a good connection with it before I even open it." Yes, this comes from that growing legion of wine drinkers who are buying the label rather than the juice inside. It’s really hard to argue with attitude, particularly as it exists among those who like wine, but don’t care…