Millennial Wine Consumer – Jean

To continue my series on Millennial Wine Consumers, next up is Jean, a dear, dear friend who is on the cusp of the Millennial generation and has a different experience with wine than Matt, my first interviewee.
I incorporated many of the questions from the comments section of the last interview (thanks for all your contributions!) [...]

Top 50 Announcement

I woke up this morning to find an e-mail from Mr. Dave Ready, Jr. (winemaker par excellence for Murphy-Goode) which stated that the Top 50 had been announced…at 2am (boy they are some night owls up in Healdsburg)…and that I had made it into that next tier!
So a nice bit of awesomeness to start off [...]

Gewürtz for Desserts?

This is one of those posts that may fly in the face of wine etiquette, but being an average wine consumer…I just gotta ask it:
Is there any problem with drinking a Gewürtzraminer for dessert?
I’ve had smaller, quicker dinners the past couple of nights and haven’t thought to open this Chateau Ste. Michelle 2007 Gewürtztraminer (geh-VERTS-truh-meaner…although [...]

Top 10 Dramatic Issues of Wine Industry

Have you checked out Jeff Lefevere’s GoodGrape.com blog lately?
Not yet?  Well, where you been, Jelly Bean?
He put up a fantastic couple of posts last week that give a great snapshot into the Top Ten Most Dramatic Issues facing and inciting the wine industry today.
Jeff also gives a point-counterpoint to each issue which really make you [...]

Tips for Hosting a Wine-Tasting Party

One of the best experiences to come from the Murphy-Goode campaign is meeting some pretty cool and interesting new people.
Ed Thralls is one of them fellers.  You might know him best as @winetonite on Twitter or from his Murphy-Goode application video which he posted pretty early in the process.  Kudos for jumping in feet first [...]