This past week, I went though a therapy session with my colleague/on-line friend Michael (Mike) E. Duffy of the Winery Web Site Report. A title story, “Most Winery Web Sites Suck” really caught my eye and sensibilities.
“Wow,” I thought, “someone finally said for me what I’ve been thinking for so long.”
So, I commented on his [...]
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[Above Image: Left to right: winemaker Rui Veladas of Carmim Winery and winemaker Jose Fonseca of Enoforum Wines, in Carmim's tasting room.]
Tasting rooms are a retail outlet in which you may enjoy and learn about wine, and then make a purchase to support the proprietor’s efforts at showing you his, her, their best, if you liked the wine. It’s [...]
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The subject of this wine educator’s Email: Have a Pepcid handy?
He wrote in the body: “Just to give you indigestion, I had to send you this picture from a wine competition.”
This is how bad it gets, and from wine experts!
Pleeeease……..
JUST IN… This is an amateur competition… My bad. Don’t take the training wheels off yet, [...]
Life was getting to be pretty great. I had spent years getting wine writers to understand that Petite Sirah is spelled with an “i” and not the “y.”
“Petite Sirah” (versus Petite Syrah ~ I even have a hard time writing it with the “y”) is the only accepted form of Petite Sirah.
Why? Come on… Syrah, [...]
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I read a story by a writer, who wrote about Petite Sirah. Weeks ago I privately sent the author adjustments, but she’s never replied to my Email and has not updated her content. It drives me bananas to see incorrect and misleading information put onto the Internet as law…
So, where does one go, especially after every attempt [...]
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