Thursday, May 31, 2018

California's Coming Agriculture Water Crisis

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California agriculture isn't just about wine grapes -- far from it. The state is the fifth largest ag producer in the world . They are t...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Tasting Room Etiquette

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  Summer is coming and many of us will be visiting wineries soon. Engaging in wine discovery in tasting rooms is an enjoyable experience, fo...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Summer 2018 Sonoma County Events

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Following are major wine and non-wine events in Sonoma County for the months of June through Labor Day weekend. Lots of stuff happening and...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Thinking About That Dream Job in the Wine Biz?

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  "What if your hobby became your job?" is the aspiration of many. The nice thing about the wine business is you can actually make...
Monday, May 21, 2018

Anderson Valley, Mendocino County

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Mendocino County, Sonoma's neighbor to the north, is quite the wine growing region in its own right. Many, though, may know it more as t...
Friday, May 18, 2018

True Stories from the Tasting Room

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Things I've been told in the winery tasting room. And this is just in the past few months!
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

The Thing With Wine Scores

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Many wine critics use a point system to rate wines. The idea is to lend some objectivity to the quality of a wine against its competitors. A...
Monday, May 14, 2018

Garagiste Wine Festival, Sonoma

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Garagiste is a term used to denote very small wine producers -- often making a few hundred cases of wine a year. There are actually a lot of...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Rosé All Day? NO

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Just NO If you are linked to a lot of wine-related social media people and businesses you might get tired of seeing people pretending to...
Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Online Alcohol Sales Increasing

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Per Slice Intelligence , a marketing research firm out of Silicon Valley, online alcohol sales & delivery increased about 33% from 2016 ...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Blog stats

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Maybe nobody cares but me :) unless you also happen to have a social media presence or are a serious data nerd, but from Google's analyt...
Monday, May 7, 2018

Keeping Birds Out of the Vineyards -- Starwars Style

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  When the grapes ripen late summer and into the fall they can make a great meal for birds. You can see flocks of  a thousand starlings swi...