Kick-Ass Rosés for Summer
Let it be clear: there is a SEA of unremarkable rosé out there. Mass, commercial, grocery store glug, as I call it. When you have a category leading the pack like rosé, you are bound to have a flood in the market. Rosé is a cash cow and can help a winery generate revenue while […]
Michal Ujvary
“As we moved forward we saw how we could help wine producers to better present themselves, their products and their story via digital presence and social marketing. Our goal from that moment was to offer winemakers another way to present themselves, telling their story created by our expert team which understands wine business and the market and […]
Window Shopping for Wine
For me, it was maybe three years ago when I first noticed the convergence of the natural wine trend with the uber Instagram-able, bright, often cartoony, modern wine labels. Browsing instagram one could clearly see when a local wine agency’s allocation or PO of a seemingly newly famous natural wine producer’s products had arrived as these labels […]
Camins2Dreams
Nestled in the midst of gorgeous Santa Barbara County, a new vision in winemaking is adding vibrant character to the panoply of California wines. Camins2Dreams has taken root in an industrial area, motifs of metal and wood underscoring a diligent effort to do one thing: dazzle us with wine. No vineyards surround, but the place pulses with […]
Paix Sur Terre’s Ryan Pease
From Super Bowl Hero to Winemaker Extraordinaire As a teenager, in the 1990’s, growing up in the San Francisco Bay area, Ryan’s dream was the same as many American youths. Being an avid sports fan, playing football in high school, Ryan’s goal was to play quarterback for the San Francisco Forty-Niners. With odds stacked against him, […]
From Kitschy to Cool: Solvang, California
One of the attractions of a trip to wine country is the charming towns filled with restaurants, tastings rooms, and boutiques selling anything from clothing to art to local products. There are the sophisticated towns of Healdsburg in Sonoma and Yountville and St. Helena in Napa. There is the rustic town of Paso Robles. In […]