Oct 15, 2008
I’ve been thinking about THIS POST from Steve Bachmann’s "Wine Collector" blog since it hit. Maybe anyone else with a retirement portfolio or investments should also. Like most folks in their 40s, I’ve got IRAs, savings, investments, etc. The idea is to save up enough for when you retire so that you don’t have to fight for a place on Van Ness Avenue where you can stand all day holding a sign that says, "Former PR Exec Down and Out…Any…
Oct 6, 2008
Do you ever wonder how people find you on the Internet? Wineries, wine retailers and restaurants certainly do, as well as every other business that hopes to connect with prospective customers over the Internet. Bloggers should be wondering this too. One of the best ways to discover how you are being discovered (or how your website or blog is being discovered) is to look at your stats and see what keywords used in search engines bring eyeball to you. I…
Oct 6, 2008
I’m not much of Handyman or Do-it-Yourselfer. I can mow a lawn like nobody’s business and hammer a nail. But taking a space and creating something in it? Not me. I didn’t get the "spacial" or "engineering" genes. So it’s with great trepidation that I have decided to attack the space you see in this post and create a place to store up to 10-15 cases of wine. However, before I begin and potentially dislodge the house from its foundation,…
Sep 10, 2008
Cruvee launched yesterday. As in Groovy, Cruvee is new wine social networking and personalized wine information site that aims to combine comprehensive information, people’s passions for interacting over their favorite libation and powerful user-adaptive technology to create a community of well-informed users. For anyone who has used other social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace or OpenWine Consortium, Cruvee will be very easy and simple to navigate. You’ll be navigating about checking out any of the 18,000 wineries highlighted on…
Sep 8, 2008
A significant responsibility was laid upon my shoulders not too long ago: I’ve been charged with creating an itinerary for a Day in Napa Valley for a very old and very dear friend and her equally dear and loved husband who will again be coming up to see us for a spell. They are BIG wine lovers. We get together regularly and when they have come up from LA to visit, I’ve taken them on tours of Carneros, Russian River…