Tag Archive | "Wine Country"

barrel tasting day one: new adventures and old favorites.

Monday, March 9, 2009

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One of the biggest events in Sonoma County is the two weekend extravaganza (aka drunk fest) that is Northern California Wine Road’s Barrel Tasting Weekend around Healdsburg, Ca.  The first two weekends in March provide visitors the chance to sample wines straight from barrel, pre-purchase the wine (called futures) before it is bottled and meet [...]

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customer service in the consumer review era.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

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Years ago, back when the terms blog and twitter were still unknown, if restaurants, retailers or wineries provided terrible customer service then the word only got around to the visitors immediate friends and family.  If it was a truly horrific act of bad customer service or product failure, then maybe the word would spread a [...]

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zinful zap events: the grand tasting.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

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Saturday was the big ZAP event – The Grand Zinfandel Tasting!  According to my favorite wine geek and partner in wine glass breaking, Ward of WineLog Blog aka DrXeno: “Over 275 wineries, 400 wines, countless other food and wine specialists and 10,000 attendees will be participating” Judging from what I saw from my bird’s eye view of [...]

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