Wine Thoughts

Changing CEOs is a Saavy Business Move

When I read Inertia Beverage’s announcement of a change of CEO it was not only interesting but actually a very wise move by the current CEO and a friend of mine Paul Mabray. I don’t want to get into a long post on my business philosophy but I thought I should post a short commentary […]

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13May2008 | Joel | 1 comment | Continued

Creating Value for the Wine Industry

I’m in the process of closing down Wine Life Today the social bookmarking service and making it into my personal blog so that I can dedicate my time to creating real change and real value for the entire wine industry.
WLT is a two year old project that had a decent amount of success and […]

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12May2008 | Joel | 1 comment | Continued

For Love or Money

Just read an very interesting essay that makes parallels between blogging and the open source movement in software. There was a discussion about a year ago in the wine blogosphere regarding professional versus amateur and what the distinction is. This essay points out some really interesting ideas relating to this topic is worth a read. […]

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4Feb2008 | Joel | 0 comments | Continued

What inspires you?

There are lots of things going on in my life these days. Very busy times. But for now, its a good busy…
My second daughter is due any week now (officially March 4th, but the last Dr visit said the baby was already 6 lbs and Kelly is petite so she won’t be […]

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2Feb2008 | Joel | 0 comments | Continued

Every Wine Tasting Note Site Should Be Freebasing!

Can you guess what’s wrong with tasting note web sites? Exactly, none (and I mean N-O-N-E) have reached anything close to critical mass of users to make their notes useful. Why is that? Well there are too many wines every year to have multiple reviews per wine.

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18Jan2008 | Joel | 15 comments | Continued

vReview #2 - Winespies.com

Second edition of Wine website video reviews – what I’ll call vReviews for short – comes with my first impressions of Wine Spies. Wine Spies contacted me to see if I would review their site. Here is a First Impression review – a review no longer than 5 minutes to give my raw, […]

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28Sep2007 | Joel | 0 comments | Continued

Marketing in Wine 2.0 World - A Whole New Way to SPAM?

Well, I’m seeing a light at the end of the tunnel with my myriad of projects so I thought I’d post a little bit on a topic I’ve been thinking about for a few weeks. I guess I’ve noticed a subtle but disturbing trend
in the world of Wine 2.0. We are just starting to chip away at the social networking technology world as it
relates to wine (we’ve even got the cool moniker of Wine 2.0 to describe these tools) and it really does open up alot of exciting possibilities particularly if you’re a techie marketing person like me.

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25Sep2007 | Joel | 0 comments | Continued

Happy 3rd Birthday Vivi’s!

Well, my blog is growing up so fast…>sniff sniff<...

First, let me apologize for the bit of a hiatus. There's just alot going on. I have development working on Wine Life Today, working on things with our friends at WineQ, a couple of major intiatives at my day job, construction at our house, and the best news of all…we are expecting another little addition to the family! So as you can imagine, I’ve taken a brief hiatus from my normal blogging

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15Aug2007 | Joel | 0 comments | Continued

What does the iPhone mean to the Wine world?

iPhone? On a wine blog? Why the hell not. Its everywhere else today. The media blitz is rivaling anything Microsoft or any tech company has ever done.

So how does the iPhone related to wine? Simply, its a sign of things to come. I’ll most likely be out there in a line somewhere

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29Jun2007 | Joel | 0 comments | Continued

Wine Life Value Chain Revisited

Just thought it would be interesting to publish this. Vinfolio posted the results of a study about wine buying behavior. This study is posted a few weeks after I talked about what I call the Wine Life value chain (WLVC) and why it is that friends are the best source of wine recommendations. […]