Wine Tonite!

As originally posted on the Wine Bloggers Conference blog: The inaugural Wine Tourism Conference was held November 16-17 at the newly revived Napa Marriott hot on the heels of yet another inaugural Napa event, the Napa Valley Film Festival.  This is the first conference focused on increasing and enhancing tourism to wine regions around the [...]

The 4th Annual Wine Bloggers Conference is nearly upon us, this time being held in Charlottesville, VA.  This is a beautiful wine country setting with some wonderful wineries making great wine.  We last visited this region back in 2007 and was in awe with how vibrant and busy many of the wineries were.  Wine lovers [...]

1. Almost setting the kitchen of 633 Pearson St. on fire during “Club Pearson” freakfest Friday night 2. Zombie teeth 3. The UNconference patio where worldwide wine sharing and true networking occurs 4. Meeting “friends” for the first time and feeling like I’ve known them for years 5. Open sharing of wine and trading – [...]

The bus ride to the Yakima Valley was simply breathtaking.  Mainly an  agricultural area, cows, apple and fruit orchards and, now, more and more vineyards line both sides of the highway and are further surrounded by green and brown rocky and rolling ridgelines.  The sky was clear and blue with temperatures in the low 80′s. [...]

The 2010 Wine Blogger’s Conference is nearly upon us.  This will be my second and it feels good that I won’t have that freshman feeling walking around campus with a map in my hand and propeller on my head.  Nope, no longer a noob.  A lot has happened in the past year since WBC09 in [...]