As previously mentioned, check out the Vin Collections coverage in Smart Money – http://www.smartmoney.com/spending/travel/6-wine-regions-worth-visiting/.
All I can really say is what I said on Twitter already – “I’m honored to just be living in the same universe as @garyvee [Gary Vaynerchuk and Wine Library TV]…being included in the same article is almost too much to take.”
Exciting Press News -
It has yet to be published (so fingers crossed) but I am thrilled to announce that Vin Collections is at least slated to be quoted in Smart Money Magazine. Even more exciting is that it will hopefully be alongside the indomitable Gary Vaynerchuk. Special thanks to Kate Klonick for helping to make this possible. You can follow along on Twitter with Gary’s adventures here and Kate’s here.
Event Notes -
Over the past few weeks I’ve attended four large tasting events in the Bay Area – the Benvenuto Brunello 2009, the ZAP Festival (attendance at both of these events courtesy of Thea Dwelle – Thank You Thea!), the Bottlenotes.com “Around The World In 80 Sips” event (which I consulted on), and the Australian Bushfire Relief Benefit. Each of these events provided some unique and interesting wines as well as different settings and production angles (although the “80 Sips” and “Australia Relief” events were both held at Crushpad). They were all awesome. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m a guy, and I tend to break things. Back in my serious ski-racing days I even penned an article devoted entirely to these follies. When dealing with wine however, I am particularly cognizant of the fragile nature of the item. I can safely say that (insert sound of me knocking on wood here) when working in home cellars and on the winery production line, my breakage record stands at exactly 1 out 15,000 (filled) bottles. Read the rest of this entry »
Vin Collections
