by Heather Lipp | Jul 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
There was an article in the New York Times a few weeks ago comparing poll results between what the average American thought were healthy foods and drinks and what the average nutritionist thought were healthy food and drinks. While it had a lot of interesting ideas on...
by Heather Lipp | Jul 9, 2016 | Product Review, Uncategorized
Perhaps you have a significant other who doesn’t drink wine, necessitating saving a half drunk bottle of wine for the next evening. Or perhaps, more realistically, like me, after finishing off two bottles of wine with your significant other, you want to open a third,...
by Heather Lipp | Jun 14, 2016 | Advice, Millennial Cult Wine, Recommendations, Uncategorized, Winery Review
Sometimes in your life you taste, and perhaps more importantly experience, a wine that you just know is something special. Standing in the vineyard at the bottom of Howell Mountain in Napa Valley, staring at the tiny half-acre plot of vines, I asked the wine growers /...
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 Heather Lipp | May 25, 2016 | Advice, Recommendations, Uncategorized
With Memorial Day right around the corner I thought it appropriate to write a blog post on something a little more than just wine. As I mentioned is my previous blog post, Why the Story Behind the Wine Matters, I believe that the stories behind the winemaker and the...
by Heather Lipp | May 9, 2016 | Advice, Recommendations, Uncategorized
What is a cult wine? If you want more than the typical flippant answer – it’s a wine you cannot afford – here goes how I would explain what makes a cult wine. This explanation is best described by a story about a friend of ours. Our good friend, Steve Carpenter,...
