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If Paul Newman Were A Wine?

As many of you know, the primary inspiration of Humanitas wines was/is Paul Newman’s Own.  When I first dreamed up Humanitas back in 1997, my thinking was that if a winery could use the Paul Newman’s Own model of creating an excellent product as a means to generating revenues that in turn would drive charitable [...]

Humanitas Haiku…Change the World

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 [...]

The Good Life

It is appropriate that my inaugural post on Drink Charitably, the Humanitas Winery blog, falls in October.  October 1st is the birthday of my first child, a beautiful daughter, now 16 years old.  It was a day unlike any other (as any parent will attest) – not only, obviously, because of the birth of my child (we [...]