Entries Tagged as 'Miscellaneous'

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Tom Wark vs. James Conaway and ‘the battle for Napa Valley’

Reading Tom Wark’s blog post (err, rant) today over at Fermentation about comments from author James Conaway gave us a bit of a chuckle. Tom decided to call into question several quotes from Conaway that appeared in the Napa Valley Register from a recent talk he gave at the California Preservation Foundation Conference.
So why did [...]

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Napa Valley tasting rooms take a beating online

A combination of things led us to this post.
Last Friday afternoon, we were reading through some of the most recent comments on this here blog. It’s always interesting when comments appear on posts from several months ago, it makes us feel good, because it means that something we’ve written and forgotten about still resonates [...]

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Sunday sights

The little man didn’t let mom and dad get much sleep this weekend. So, here’s a glimpse into what we saw as we literally circled the entire valley on Sunday morning before (and just after) sunrise.

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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

All your wine blogs in one place

If you’re ever looking for a single place on the web to find all the latest from the top wine blogs, look no further than the new Alltop Wine page. Backed by Guy Kawasaki, Alltop was formally opened for business on March 11th.
At that time, there were Alltop pages for sports, fashion, celebrities, religion, [...]

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Apparently business is ballooning in Napa Valley

Yesterday morning, right after sunrise, we were on our way up to Yountville for your daily injection of caffeine from Bouchon Bakery. While it’s nothing new to us to see hot air balloons dotting the early morning skyline, Sunday morning was quite a bit different.
At one point, we counted no fewer than nine separate [...]

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Video: Hall’s director of vineyard operations gives a vineyard update

We’re feeling a bit guilty about subjecting you to our rant from a few hours ago, so we’re gonna make it up to you by getting right back on track. Hall Winery is out with another video, this one providing a glimpse into what’s happening at present in the vineyards and a bit of a [...]

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming for…a RANT!

We’ve had this blog up and running for over a year now and we’ve never once (at least as far as we can recall) gone off topic. At least not too far. Until now. Please forgive us, but we’re feeling a bit frustrated, annoyed, taken advantage of and any other such synonyms and we’ve got [...]

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Wine Enthusiast launches new blog–Winston’s Wisdoms

Say what you like, but we got the idea for this blog post from our Twitter feed. That’s right, we said Twitter. As we checked our Twitter feed this afternoon, we came across an entry from the WineEnthusiast about the launch of a new blog, so we decided to check it out.
The blog, called Winston’s [...]

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Sights, sounds and smells from a Sunday sunrise ride around the Napa Valley

This morning we were up bright and early–Aidan decided he was done sleeping well before Mom and Dad were. After getting things together and having a quick bite, we set out on a sunrise ride around the Napa Valley.
There’s something quite peaceful about the valley just before the sun breaks over the eastern [...]

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Happy leap day (or year)

Well, it’s Friday, February 29th–that’s right, in case you’ve been living under a rock, it’s a leap year. If you happen to be reading this sometime in the morning Pacific Time, then you can be sure we’re celebrating the extra day of February right here:

The shot above is of the first tee box at our [...]