My First Official Wineld Child

4 03 2009

Check out the new line of spring releases for A Donkey And Goat, including the first wine I named (!!) – The Prospector (a 95% Mourvedre, 5% Syrah) – on the spring release page.





Exploring New Wine – That’s Smart Money!

27 02 2009

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.”





Press News and Event Notes

23 02 2009

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 »





Amazing Bouncing Bottles

9 02 2009

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 »





Syndication and Alternate Viewing

12 01 2009

If you haven’t already signed up for the Vin Collections RSS feed, please do. Also, you can now view integrated Vin Collecitons sydication (RSS/YouTube/Twitter) on FriendFeed, or check out sydicated content on either Technorati or HubPages.





Bottle Battles – Round 2

11 01 2009

My brother Jesse returns in the much anticipated “Bottle Battles – Round 2″ aka The Sabrage Instructional Video.
Again, It does not turn out well.

Follow-up note: Jesse is fine. He received five stitches and returned to successfully saber a bottle in “Bottle Battles – Round 4″





The Wine Shop Customer Service Contest

8 01 2009

Vin Collections announces The Wine Shop Customer Service Contest!

If you want some background on how this contest evolved, please see the previous post – “Customer Service I Can Believe In” or click here.

The Idea -

To find the wine shops with the best (and worst) customer service, and to try and discover some wine shops you may not have previously visited. This is not designed to only illuminate stores with bad customer service (although I’m sure that will come out in some instances), but to really give kudos to the wine shops that are working hard to earn your business. Read the rest of this entry »





Vin Collections on Facebook

7 01 2009

Become a fan of Vin Collections on Facebook. Join here.

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Aging Wine

22 12 2008

NewScientist, via Gizmodo, has an interesting article on an advanced tactic to rapidly “age” cheap wine. I am intrigued but skeptical. The original article may be found here.








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