All things wine…especially Napa Valley Fine Wines
As I begin, I’d like to point out you can read the recently released Silicon Valley Bank‘s 2019 State of the Wine Industry Report by clicking here and watch a taped version of their related webinar by clicking here. After reading the report and watching the webinar, produced by Rob McMillan, Executive Vice President of […]
How do you do Napa? What are your top suggestions for a trip to Napa? What’s best in the Valley? These questions are fresh in my mind as I just returned to the lake from a lovely, but all too short, five days in Napa. They are the most frequently asked questions I get asked, […]
The northern Minnesota, Iron Range town where my wife grew up was a true melting pot of immigrants from all over, salted heavily with Swedes, Finns, Norwegians, Croats, Irish, and Italians. This made for some wonderful sayings being handed down within families, around the town, and from family to family! One of those individuals was […]
Who or What Influenced Your Love of Wine? I’ve been thinking a lot lately about important influences in my life. As my mind wandered on this subject, naturally I got to thinking about wine and what influenced me to like the wines I love best. I can think of several foods and beverages, which are […]
We’ve been buying wine for our cellar for a few years now and recently we began to pull together a few of our thoughts about our wine buying habits. Feel free to add, refute, or comment! Random marketing thoughts from a wine collector & customer I’ve never bought a bottle of wine due to its […]
The other day a friend asked “Scott, why do you love red wines?” He cringed when I replied “The reason begins in 1878. 1878 was the year Nazzareno Brunetti was born in the small town of Fossato di Vico, Italy. In 1901 he emigrated from Italy to join a cousin on the Iron Range of […]