Wednesday, January 13, 2010
The sign at the gas station reads “Would you like a carwash? If yes, pay 15 cents less per gallon and the carwash is just $5.”
Sounds reasonable enough — the gas station is going to give me a discount on my gas provided I also spend money with them at the carwash. Happens every day [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
Living & working in wine country has it’s perqs — like really good food & wine all over the place! Of course, we don’t make enough money in this industry to retire, but we sure get to eat and drink well…so that’s something.
I was just reading in Tom Wark’s Fermentation about great restaurants in his [...]
Admittedly, I took a bit of time off from blogging over the Holidays – Gary Vaynerchuk would be so disappointed. But I really needed to re-group. 2009 is upon us, and in light of the doom & gloom being preached in the media today, I needed to take a step back & see if I was [...]
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Humanitas is about honorable wines trying to do an honorable thing. We do this by giving a minimum of 7% of our revenues to charity…to charities local to where the wine is sold and to charities that focus on very primary needs — hunger, affordable housing, education…that kind of thing. In the wine business, 7% [...]
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Saturday, November 29, 2008
In my opinion, maybe the best thing about Thanksgiving is the leftovers. There is something sublime about a really great turkey sandwich on some hearty bread with just about everything I can find in the fridge to drop on top. Avocados are a must. So is red onion. But I’ll put cranberries, cheese, sprouts, walnuts, [...]
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
The Holidays are at once inspiring, enlightening…and tiring! For us, as a family of five, it means travel, entertaining, packing…and basically a lot of work. My wife has a wonderful lexicon for these kinds of things — she clearly differentiates a ‘trip’ from a ‘vacation.’ In essence, a ‘trip’ is where you pack up all [...]
Thursday, November 6, 2008
The message of change is everywhere and there seems a world-wide sigh of relief coupled with a palpable optimism unlike any I’ve seen in a long time. The internet has shrunk the world. A close friend of mine texted his play by play of the election while drinking Moet in a bar in Shanghai. Another from [...]
