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Pursuing the Dream - I Start My Wine Career Search

Date: Tue, Aug 3, 2010 Wine Tasting

My wife and I have been bandying about the idea of moving for some time now. As her family has gone through a diaspora over the last couple of years that has greatly increased the distance required to visit anyone on her side of the tree, we have started thinking about moving closer to some of her family. With her father living in Washington and her mom in Arizona, the West Coast seemed like the logical direction to be moving. When we first started talking seriously about moving, we talked about possibly just locating a job that would get us...

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A Vineyard You Can Walk In - Interview with Kaz from Kaz Winery

Date: Mon, Aug 2, 2010 Wine Tasting

Most of you already know by now that I'm a huge fan of Natural Wine. I love the expressiveness of a wine that has been allowed to be itself, rather than pounded and manipulated into submission by chemicals and additives. I've been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to talk with several great proponents of a more minimal intervention approach to winemaking on this blog, and I got to have a fun chat with another great winemaker while I was at the Wine Bloggers' Conference this year. Whenever you meet someone who goes by a single name, you know you...

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What Does Your Twitter Resume Say?

Date: Fri, Jul 30, 2010 Wine Tasting

A while back I saw a tweet from my friend Chris Oggenfuss (@vintuba) that asked this question - @vintuba: Are wineries that use ghost writers for their facebook pages and twitter posts less authentic As a person who just recently started the process of looking for a marketing/social media job in the wine business (feel free to let me know if you are looking for such a person :) ), I jokingly responded with the following - @vinotology: Yes, they should all hire nice social media savvy bloggers like me to do it instead. :) This response elicited a really...

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July 30 - The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Date: Fri, Jul 30, 2010 Wine Tasting

The Good In the last year my wife and I have become addicted to the show Mad Men. I know, we tend to be a little late arriving to these kind of parties, but we are here now. For those who don't know, and there can't be very many of you, Mad Men centers around the lives, beverage choices, and infidelities of a group of Madison Avenue ad executives in the early 1960s. The show is clever, and has a real eye for the details of the media world in the early 60s, taking a really interesting look at some...

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Not All That Sparkles is Gold: A Disappointing Twist to the Gruet Story

Date: Wed, Jul 28, 2010 Wine Tasting

The title of this post is taken from a comment that my friend Luke left me on Facebook yesterday in reference to the Gruet/Cap*Rock debacle. The comment does a good job of giving voice to the disappointment that many are feeling with the outcome of the Gruet purchase of the Lubbock winery. In conversations with Texas wine lovers over the last couple of weeks, and actually with wine lovers from outside of Texas as well, I was finding a lot of excitement about the prospect of "Texas Champagne" coming from the Lubbock area. There really seemed to be very little...

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More Breaking News - Official Word That Gruet is Backing Out of Cap*Rock Sale

Date: Tue, Jul 27, 2010 Wine Tasting

Sorry to do a follow up post so soon, but we just received official word that Gruet has backed out on the Cap*Rock sale. VintageTexas posted the following details on his blog moments ago - I received a call from Max Tarbox, attorney for the CapRock Auction Sale early this afternoon indicating the he has received permission from the Backruptcy Judge Robert Jones to proceed with a new auction for the sale of the CapRock Winery. Mr. Tarbox was informed by Laurent Gruet that he does not plan to go through with the purchase the CapRock Winery despite that fact...

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Breaking News - Update on Cap*Rock Winery Sale to Gruet

Date: Tue, Jul 27, 2010 Wine Tasting

It looks like the old axiom about smoke and fire is proving true in the case of the problems involving the sale of Cap*Rock Winery to Gruet. I posted late last week that there were rumors surfacing that the sale of the winery to Gruet was in jeopardy. Since that post I have been working with Russ Kane from VintageTexas to determine what was really going on. There have been many rumors flying around from multiple sources about the sale, but we have been unable to track down much in the way of hard facts until this morning. Most of...

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Wine Biz Radio Comes to Texas

Date: Mon, Jul 26, 2010 Wine Tasting

The 2010 Wine Bloggers' Conference was a great opportunity to meet some of the awesome people in the wine business, people who don't normally surface in my fair state of Texas. There are so many different ways that I have been able to experience the wine country life here in the Lone Star State, and one of the ways that I have kept up to date with what is going on in the wine industry in California is by listening to Wine Biz Radio on a weekly basis. The power duo of Richard Kasmier, known by all as "Kaz", and...

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Breaking Rumor: Sale of Cap*Rock Winery to Gruet In Trouble?

Date: Sat, Jul 24, 2010 Wine Tasting

At this point this is all very much hearsay, but I spoke to a source today who said that the sale of Cap*Rock winery to Gruet that had been reported earlier on this blog is in jeopardy. Again, this has not been substantiated yet. For now I don't really have anything concrete on this, but I will be looking into it further. I'm hoping that this rumor is false. I will post new information as it arises. Update - I continue to hear rumors from various sources that there is a problem with the Cap*Rock sale, but have yet to...

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July 23 - The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Date: Fri, Jul 23, 2010 Wine Tasting

The Good There have been a lot of good posts about the recent #PinotNoir blowout that took place. The entire event was so much fun, and represents an international community Twitter event the likes of which I've never seen before. So, with all of the great posts on the event, how did I choose the one to feature here? Easy, I picked the one that has a video that mentions my hometown of Lubbock, Texas. :) This video is from the WineTonite blog. This is the first time I have ever heard Lubbock associated with a wine event before a...

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Help a Wino Out..., Not Me, Ed from WineTonite

Date: Thu, Jul 22, 2010 Wine Tasting

Just thought I'd make it clear from the title, as I have my suspicions that a post titled Help a Wino Out might not get viewed a single time. I know how much everyone loves to be asked for stuff, but really all that's needed here is a few minutes to go vote for Ed Thralls in a contest that Lapostolle has put together to send an aspiring wine maker to Chile to work. That's right, the prize is work. Anyway, Ed has been working really hard to pursue his passion over the last several years, including getting his wine...

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Is Biodynamics a Hoax?

Date: Thu, Jul 22, 2010 Wine Tasting

There are few topics that are more controversial in the wine world right now than that of Biodynamic wines. Both proponents and opponents seem to be equally passionate in their opinions on the subject. Jeff Lefevere has an outstanding post up on his Good Grape blog right now about the need for a change in the dialogue (or dueling monologues) on this topic. Jeff does a good job of showing the parallels between wine and politics or religion that this issue has created. From the post - By now, I think most seasoned wine enthusiasts are not only familiar with...

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Good Wine, Prostitutes, and Capitalism - Hard Row to Hoe Vineyards

Date: Wed, Jul 21, 2010 Wine Tasting

If you spend enough time reading about wine or talking to winos, there is no doubt that the topic of marketing will come up at some point. Everyone has an opinion when it comes to marketing, wine labels, and the like. My favorite wine labels are the ones that have a unique story behind them. I think that this can serve a winery well in making a personal connection with the consumer. On my recent trip to Oregon and Washington, I found some really great story labels, but one of my favorites was the story behind Hard Row to Hoe...

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Summertime (and the Livin's Easy) - 2008 Laurenz V. Singing Grüner Veltliner

Date: Wed, Jul 21, 2010 Wine Tasting

When the temperatures start moving North here in Texas, my tastes gradually turn from red to white. The Summer heat makes many of my favorite reds darn near undrinkable for the next couple of months. So naturally I just stop drinking during the Summer, right? Sure. One great variety for these hot summer days is the Austrian superstar white, Grüner Veltliner. I recently received some Grüner samples from crackerjack PR gal Constance Chamberlain from The Brand Action Team. One of the wines that I received was the 2008 Laurenz V Singing Grüner Veltliner. This wine will set you back around...

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