JedCellarSmiles
Man of Steele: 50 Harvests and Counting
There aren’t many of Jed Steele’s contemporaries still making wine. Most have hung up their hoses and gone fishing, or passed on to the great vineyard in the sky. Few have as many stories to tell as this...
Liz Gehl
Will Cannabis Present Cross-Over Opportunities for Wine Industry Professionals?
Liz Gehl, founder and chief recruiter of Gehl Search Partners, has been recruiting in the adult beverage industry for several years, and sees many opportunities starting to present themselves in the fledgling...
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It’s Not Only What but When
Engagement with customers is not only about what you tell them, it is also about when. If you want customers’ visits to your winery to be remembered, when you give your customers information is as important...
3 Tier Talk
Weed Should Scare You!
When I say weed should scare you I am not talking about You, the reader, I am speaking about the very basic, everyday, mundane, generic wine, beer, or spirit. Weed, the actual THC, is not scary at...
Sandhill Winery Acoustic Art
Improving the Guest Experience in a Tasting Room Using Artful Display to Control Acoustics
Believe Everything You Hear! A quick search of the internet for information on the influence of sound on people’s sense of taste turns up countless studies examining this phenomenon and all come to a...
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Mystery Shoppers Visit Alpha Omega
Alpha Omega Winery was founded in 2006 by vintners Robin and Michelle Baggett. The Baggetts began their foray in the wine Industry through their well-known first winery endeavor, Tolosa, which was established...
WomenJudges
What Do Women Want?: When Women Judge Wine for Women
Cindy Lauper said it best: girls just want to have fun. And women pretty much want the same thing. Women in the wine industry just want to make wine fun. Women winemakers mostly want to make wine that’s...
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In the Tasting Room
Most wineries call their customer space the “Tasting Room” for the very good reason that wine tasting does take place there, and it’s usually a room. I was giving some thought the other day to all the...
Sill Vineyards
Volcanic Wines - Magic Behind Napa’s Atlas Peak Mountain
Only three percent of the wine grapes grown in California are grown at altitudes above 1,000 feet in elevation with some of the most uniquely fascinating wines sharing a common characteristic, volcanic...
Measure C vote tally
Napa’s Measure C Now Almost Certain to Fail
Measure C, also known as the Napa Oak Woodlands and Watershed Protection Initiative, came out of election night with a slim 42 vote lead, but that count reflected only of about 40% of all votes cast, and...
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