Healdsburg is a little town in Sonoma County, northwest of the major vintners, but it’s still surrounded by wineries, charm and style. The Hotel Healdsburg offers Sonoma County’s premier luxury lodging on the historic Town Plaza.
This self-contained resort has a full-service spa, pool, country gardens, and — best of all, celebrity chef Charlie Palmer [...]

While young drinkers (21 and up, of course) aren’t dropping cheap beer anytime soon, the trend for more “refined� beverages seems to be going more mass lately, with affordable wines being marketed heavily to older Gen Ys and young Gen Xers. Qualitatively, we’ve already seen the beginning of the “hip� wine market with Sofia Coppola’s [...]

Business Week has a special podcast interview with Kathy Spiliotopoulos of Nestor Imports talking about the “delights of Greek wine — it’s more varied and artful than most realize.”
You can download the .mp3 file here.

Thanks to the movie ‘Sideways’ and the rave reviews one of the main characters gave the pinot noir variety, wine stores across America report soaring sales of Californian wine made from the delicate, thin-skinned grape.
Constellation Brands, for example, saw sales of its Blackstone pinot noir leap by 147% in the first three months after [...]

Dry sparkling wines, crisp chardonnays and fantastic merlots have given the Lenz Winery a superior reputation. They’re a relatively small winery, making wines to exacting standards. Most of thier wines are estate bottled, meaning they are made from grapes grown entirely in their own vineyards.

What do you know? A supermarket brand champagne beat the more expensive competition in an international wine challenge. Never judge a book by its cover…or its price!

Well, apparently there is room for improvement. Or maybe I should say room for further marketing opportunities? The young, trendy and fabulous are a target market for a new wine product launch…setting a trend for more to come?Via
Yahoo! News

Delayed gratification. One of the human behaviours that doesn’t come quite naturally. On the contrary, it has to be instilled into our little toddler brains as early as possible. “You can’t eat your chocolate pudding until you finish all your broccoli!” Oh! The misery. As we grow older, we should be able to experience the [...]