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Humanitas New Year Haiku

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to get back into blogging.  I took several months off to focus on other areas of the Humanitas business (which will become fodder for some of the future posts!), but now feel compelled to spread the good word of Humanitas Wines once again…and with passion!  So many wonderful [...]

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Overheard in Wine Country…”Catch 20-20″

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

I’m reading (correction:  listening to) Joseph Heller’s ‘Catch-22′ and really enjoying it.  I read it so many years ago and have forgotten so much — and listening to it vs reading it really provides a different experience. 
While listening the other day, I wandered off in my mind to something I ’overheard in wine country’ while attending a [...]

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Thinking Out Loud…Wine, The Social Lubricant Can Change the World!

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

The more I think about it, the more I believe that wine, the ultimate social lubricant, can change the world.  I believe it so much I created Humanitas Winery for that very purpose.  What I mean by this is that the power of wine brings people together in a such a positive way that it [...]

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Inspired by…Cope Family Center in Napa!

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

At the heart of Humanitas Winery is a dedication to making honorable wines (let’s hope all wineries have that mission!) and to helping those less fortunate.  We care, as the North Bay Bohemian so succinctly put it,  ”…not only where the grapes come from, but where they go” — meaning we clearly care about the quality in the bottle — but also [...]

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Overheard in Wine Country…”Penultimate Wine”

Thursday, February 26, 2009

I’m no English major, but the other day I was sitting at Ravenous (another one of my favorite haunts in Healdsburg), chowing on a burger (Gawd they are good there!) and overheard someone talking about a particular wine.  She said something along the lines of “Oh I LOVE that wine — it is the ULTIMATE!  [...]

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Peet’s – My Affordable Addicti…er…Luxury!

Friday, February 20, 2009

For a lot of  us in the wine business (and I assume other businesses), our lives revolve around beverages.  Usually this is coffee in the morning, water during the day, and wine at night.  Some people would actually say this is an addiction.  I’m here to say that for me, at least the coffee part, [...]

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Reading Glasses…Six Word Memoirs

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

I ran upon a very cool NY Times best-seller recently — Not Quite What I Was Planning:  Six Word Memoirs from Writers Famous & Obscure published by the folks at Smith Magazine.  The legend behind the book is that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words.  He came back with: 
“For sale: [...]

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Thinking Out Load…Making Wine is Hard…Selling Wine is REALLY Hard!

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

No disservice to winemakers, but compared to selling wine, winemaking is a breeze.  The tough thing about selling wine is that you have to sell to wine buyers.  And wine buyers can be…difficult at times.  The reality is, there are so many wines now that the buyer is overwhelmed with selections and 99.9% of the time, [...]

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Adam the Wine Guy Digs Humanitas!

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Short post today — just a quick You Tube video of the coolest guy in L.A. — Adam the Wine Guy.  A very cool style not unlike Gary Vaynerchuk — real, raw & obviously very accurate on his description of our Humanitas 2007 ‘Oak Free’ Monterey Chardonnay!

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Reading Glasses…Business Books by Jim Collins

Monday, February 2, 2009

“The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do, an unwavering desire for excellence in the way they think and the way they work. Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a [...]

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