I’ve seen people use a number of methods to get into the wine industry, to get their winery up and running. However, this particular method is, well, inspired. Over at Acme Winery Startup Blog, Chris Campbell is bartering away his impressive collection of wine-related domain names in exchange for the various services and goods he’ll be needing in order to get his winery up and running. First of all the collection of domain names Chris has acquired is truly impressive….
Once you realize you like wine, really like wine, you start to read about. What you are looking for in the books and magazines is clarity and confirmation of your excitement. For people like myself, who started getting into wine in the 1980s, Alexis Bespaloff was one of the writers who delivered replaced my excited confusion with clarity and confirmed for me that there really was something very special about the juice. Alex Bespaloff, one of the great American wine…
"Hungaricum" A term, that after nearly 20 years in the wine industry, I’d never come across. It refers to the native and now terribly obscure grapes of Hungary, a country that is just now beginning to export it’s 2000 year-old winemaking heritage to the West, and the topic of Bruce Schoenfeld’s latest article in Travel & Leisure: "Wine’s Next Frontier". Travel & Leisure Magazine isn’t The Wine Spectator. And it surely isn’t Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate. Yet it is the…
Imagine the great French chef Joel Robuchon announced he would no longer be serving French wine in his restaurants because it was too expensive and wasn’t high enough quality. Exactly. The French people would have a "Teezee Feet" (that’s "Tizzy Fit" in English). Well, here you have the equivalent of what has occurred in Portugal where one of the leading producers of Portuguese wine has announced they are abandoning cork closures for their wine in favor of screw caps. Those…
If you are a consumer want to have wine shipped to you or if you are a winery or retail establishment and you want to do the shipping it can be a pretty complex world. But have no fear, the ShipCompliant Blog is here to answer your question and bring you the latest news from the front. Created by the folks at ShipCompliant, the Winery Direct Shipping blog brings a lot of expertise to the table. And if one thing…
