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Thinking Out Loud…Inducement?

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 [...]

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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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Wine Circles…My Life in a Nutshell

Friday, March 20, 2009

I was reflecting on the beverages that rule my world the other day & wondered if this summation of my life in a Venn Diagram compares to anyone else out there:

A creature of habit, I’m amazed at the predictability of what I consume liquid-wise.  I’m up at dawn brewing up a pot of Peet’s.  After 3 [...]

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Rocky Mountain High

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Last week I had the priviledge of spending a few days on the road selling Humanitas in Colorado.  I’m a native of California and am pretty sure I couldn’t live much farther from a beach than about an hour, but if I had to move anywhere without a coast, it would be Colorado.  The place [...]

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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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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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