Drink Charitably!

Today, Tom Wark posted in his well-regarded blog ‘Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog’ that ‘it’s going to get very, very ugly’ for the wine business.  He warns that anyone in the industry needs to ‘get your house in order.’

This is good advice…but duh, for every industry — not just wine (no offense, Tom).  However, to take [...]

The wine industry is not exempt from economic ups and downs as some experts may want you to believe.  But after going through three of these major economic downturns (in the early 80’s, early 90’s and after 9/11), I can say that the wine industry weathers the storm a bit better than most.  And why [...]

A few weeks back I proposed a ‘modest proposal’ – a simple plan for all wineries to pay (yet another) excise tax on every gallon of wine produced in order to free up shipping direct to consumers in every state of the union.  The concept is simple — pay a tax up front to the Federal [...]

There has been a fair amount of dialogue in the blog world about the value of ’social media’ and this ‘new age’ of communications.  I’ve heard others in the wine business ask ‘How much time should I put into this?’ and ‘How can I find the time to spend blogging & ‘friending up’ and ‘linking in’?, [...]