Welcome to the D’Aquila-Phillips Wine Cellar! Our site is dedicated to the life of the individual most responsible for introducing me to the world of wine, Mary Kay D’Aquila. I’m Scott Phillips the host of this site, which we call DP Wine Cellar for short. It’s an e-extension of our physical wine cellars. One north and […]
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Wine Fun: Ideas for Your Summer
As The Lovin’ Spoonful sing “hot town, summer in the city…” As the heat of summer is yet to come we’ve already started planning how we are going to have some fun with wine this summer. With Memorial Day weekend fast approaching and our first guests due here at the lake arriving tomorrow we are […]
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Here’s what we’ll be drinking this summer – how about you?
I just unpacked in anticipation of the coming summer and as usual part of our ‘gear’ included wine. This got me thinking about the favorites we will most likely be drinking during this most wonderful of seasons. So here’s what we’ll be uncorking: Bubbles: As a family we once were big Prosecco fans, but found […]
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An ode to the women in my life – and their drinks of choice
Happy Mother’s Day to Moms everywhere! Being the youngest in my family and having two older sisters, I used to say I grew up with three Moms. Now that I’m more than a bit older than that, I know I had quite a few more Moms and several other women who significantly impacted my growth […]
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VinGardeValise: My View and Review
Do you love wine and love to travel? Then you need a VinGardeValise! Two years ago now (actually 26 months) I ordered my VinGardeValise. I’d just come back from a family vacation where I had really wished I had brought some of our wines along. While preparing for that trip I discovered two unfortunate things: […]
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Marketing Fine Wines to Millennials: PART 2 of 2
Following up on our first ideas for marketing fine wine to Millennials, here are my final thoughts. In a nutshell here it is: Your Customers are WAY Different Now! This means: You must adjust out of the old, outmoded world of wine Quit trying to force Millennials into your old system: The industry carefully created […]
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Want Millennials to Buy Wine? Make it more approachable! PART 1 of 2
With all the handwringing over the future of fine wine be it the retirement of Boomers, the too often ignored Gen Xers, or the insanely over-hyped Millennials, why isn’t there more marketing talk about simply making wine more approachable? And I’m not talking about just putting it in a box, can, or naming it after […]