Archive for the ‘Wine Education’ Category
So, it's late last night. I'm in bed. Ready to soak up some TV. Tivo: nothing. Nothing recorded by me or the little man inside the box that interests me. And then it struck me: Why the heck isn't there "The Wine Channel"? Now, there is no doubt that across the wine related video is proliferating. We have independents creating Internet-based wine content, wine stores delivering video, wineries producing video and video recordings of wine-related events. But wine simply has…
The Furrowed Brow seems to be the official wine industry response to the new social media tools. And why shouldn't this be the reaction? If you've been in the industry for even only a few years these new tools are so untested, so new and so unlike previous marketing tools that few people understand anything about them. VinTank is hoping to unfurrow a few brows. Vintank is a new company formed by Paul Mabray, founder of Inertia Beverage Group, and…
If you looked closely at the faces of the Arizona Cardinal players when time ran out on them yesterday I think you would have noticed a common expression that only could be interpreted one way: Grief. It's the same expression anyone wears as disappointment and sadness begin to co-mingle in the mind. It's not pleasant. One thing to note is that this Grief is not something you'll ever see someone wear on their sleeve no matter how much disappointment and…
What came across my desk today is some of the most encouraging news for wine consumers in a very long time:The Launch of the ILLINOIS WINE CONSUMER COALITION. The raison d'etre of the Illinois Wine Consumer Coalition is front and center on its website: "You have been stripped of your right to access thousands of fine wines. You had no voice to express your desire to retain this long held right to out-of-state wine shipments from retailers. The IWCC has…
I am starting to be a bit concerned with the mountains of hope that are being heaped upon our president elect. Besides the hope that he will be a new kind of president, a war ending president, an economy mixing president, a health-care fixing president and truly green president, it also appears there is hope running around the wine industry that he will be a "Wine President". The evidence that Obama is something of a connoisseur or even a simple…
