Let me share a once-in-a-lifetime story. As many of you probably already know, aside from being a winemaker, I am also a writer and a storyteller. My undergraduate degree was in Literature and Creative Writing. I also minored in Classics, Art History and Cultural Anthropology because those subjects were centered around human stories, as well. On the academic […]
HOW TO AVOID COMMON MISTAKES & DISASTERS There’s nothing worse than opening up a special, rare, older bottle of wine that you’ve been waiting to enjoy, and you accidentally dump sediment right into the decanter after you had carefully and earnestly tried to prevent that from happening. That begs the question – how do you […]
(AND JUST SO YOU KNOW… A COLLECTOR’S LIST IS NOT A WINE CLUB) A wine club and a collector’s list are two different ways to acquire and enjoy wine. A wine club is a membership-based service that delivers a selection of wines to members on a regular basis. The wines are usually selected by a […]
WORLD MALBEC DAY is on Monday, April 17th and this is our eighth year celebrating! While we are a Cabernet Franc House – it is an absolute joy to include a few other gems in our winemaking portfolio – including not one, but two Malbecs – which I will be pouring at the first ever Malbec […]
THE COMMON STAGES OF WINE COLLECTING The journey from not drinking wine, to occasionally drinking wine, to obsessing over wine is one of enchantment and discovery. I remember when I first got interested in wine I had no preconceived notions about what I wanted to discover. I just enjoyed trying new wines in the company […]
Wine collecting is a hobby enjoyed by many around the world. Whether it’s for personal consumption or investment purposes, collecting wine requires knowledge and expertise. However, even the most experienced wine collectors can make mistakes. In this blog post, we will discuss five common mistakes that all wine collectors make and how to avoid them. […]
CULTIVATING A MARKETING PROGRAM THAT IGNORES THE “COMPETITION” OUT THERE I have never entered my wine in a wine competition. Perhaps simply because I’m a mostly under-the-radar woman winemaker and tiny winery owner – I just don’t have the ego attached with winning or even competing. Beyond that, I have taken a more holistic, visionary-based […]
FEATURE: THE DURAND® There’s nothing more disappointing than beginning the ceremony of cutting back the foil then twisting a traditional corkscrew into the cork of a special, rare bottle of wine, and then, even with the most gentle effort to pull and remove the cork, it crumbles leaving chunks of cork all around the corkscrew […]
The world of wine can be confusing to navigate. Collecting wine had long been limited to a certain audience considering and acquiring a certain type of wine label. While that narrative in wine collecting is still very much the cornerstone of appraising and acquiring highly sought after labels offered to a very exclusive and limited […]
