by Jordan | Feb 26, 2017 | Guest Blogs, Uncategorized
Heather’s car is ten years old, and as it’s time for a new car, so, we’re in the middle of car shopping. And, since we seem to translate nearly everything into wine, while test driving a number of cars we had a realization that the German cars we test drove were like...
by Jordan | Nov 3, 2016 | Education, Guest Blogs, Uncategorized
Not infrequently people ask me – have you had this famous wine or that famous wine? (Quick answer: yes, I’ve had Screaming Eagle; yes, I’ve had Latour; no, I haven’t had Petrus; no, I haven’t had DRC.) But that makes me wonder, what makes a legendary wine, a wine...
by Jordan | Jun 6, 2016 | Education, Guest Blogs, Uncategorized
Demystifying Bordeaux’s First through Fifth Growths Perhaps the greatest marketing scheme in the history of any industry, not just wine, is the Bordeaux Wine Classification of 1855. After all, what other marketing scheme from 160 years ago is as relevant today...
by Jordan | Mar 23, 2016 | Advice, Guest Blogs, Recommendations, Uncategorized
A few years ago, while brainstorming for a creative birthday gift for Heather (I often have to give this a lot of thought as I rarely seem to have good ideas), I thought that perhaps I should buy her a bottle of wine from her birth year. After spending some time...
