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A Simple Twist of Fate – Part 1

Thursday, January 7, 2010

With a nod to Bob (that’s MR. Dylan to you, sonny!), the New Year has rendered me a bit nostalgic. Don’t get me wrong, I’m completely jacked up about 2010 and the future, but sometimes I drift off into thinking about my past. I’m guessing you do too. Life does throw out interesting ‘twists of [...]

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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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If Paul Newman Were A Wine?

Monday, January 26, 2009

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 [...]

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Thinking Out Loud…Comparative vs Competitive Tastings

Monday, December 8, 2008

One of the more valuable things I learned from working at Robert Mondavi came from Mr. Mondavi himself.  Whenever we would be out in the market promoting the wines, working with our sales force and distributors, 9 times out of 10 we’d go out to dinner at one of our restaurant accounts.  Mr. Mondavi would [...]

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Overheard in Wine Country…Pheasant in Our Cap

Friday, November 7, 2008

I used to work with an amazing group of people.  As any ex-Mondavi employee will tell you, ‘back in the day’ there was no finer winery for which to work.  There was a true sense that nothing was impossible and when an idea came up, the response was ‘how can we make that happen?’  In [...]

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The Good Life

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

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 [...]

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