According to the calendar, it’s a little late in the year to be talking about spring lamb, but it sure feels like early spring out there today. Glorious, beautiful early spring. Here’s a lamb recipe and some thoughts on wines that will pair well with it. [level-members] Our recipe this week comes from the fine […]
Archive for May, 2013
Weekend Food & Wine Pairing: Lamb with Carrots, Feta and Mi
May 17th, 2013What They’re Reading – Wine Spectator, June 15, 2013; New York Tim
May 16th, 2013There’s a new frontier in California Pinot, and it’s in Mendocino’s Anderson Valley. So says the cover of the latest issue of Wine Spectator. This month they also have a review of red burgundies. And the New York Times offers us both an interesting restaurant review and some affordable spring wine recommendations.[level-members] Pinots from Mendocino, […]
Content Marketing Tools for Wine Shop Owne
May 15th, 2013As promised last week, here are some tools that we find make content marketing easier for wine shop owners. Look to these when you’re ready to expand beyond the content that we provide you in our email updates. [level-members] Google Alerts Google Alerts is a great way to gather intel on whatever subject you’d like. […]
Good Wine Shop Service – Give The People What They Wa
May 14th, 2013Must be something in the air: twice this past week we’ve had similar stories come across our desks about the importance of reading your customers. Remember that the difference between just scraping by and enjoying real success can be as small as getting a reasonable percentage of your visitors to pick up that 2nd or […]
Wine Industry News – Distributors See Strong Growth, Ramp Up Expansion Pla
May 13th, 2013The big boys in wine and spirits distribution had a good year in 2012 and their outlook for 2013 is equally rosy. According to Wine Spectator’s Impact Databank, the top 10 distributors should see an aggregate growth rate of 8% for 2013. That’s an increase of about $2.5 billion. [level-members] Is that good news for […]
Food & Wine Pairing: Hunter’s Chicken and Nero d’Avo
May 10th, 2013Wine Spectator just landed in our mailbox – we’ll cover it in this coming week’s What They’re Reading post – but upon flipping to the back of the book we found this pairing from Chef Hugh Acheson of Athens, GA. [level-members] He’s updated a classic southern recipe by “gently … lightening … and finding local […]
What They’re Reading – New York Tim
May 9th, 2013If your shop is in or near New Jersey, you may find locals – or visitors – coming in looking for New Jersey wines. That’s not a joke. NJ wineries exist. (As do wineries in all 50 of these United States, shocking as that may be.) More shocking may be that NJ wines bring in […]
Content Marketing for Wine Shops – An Introducti
May 8th, 2013Our two most recent wine marketing posts have focused on Facebook Smarts for Wine Retailers and Facebook for Main Street Retailers. Today, let’s talk about content marketing more broadly, and how you can do it without giving up your sleep. We know that, like every other business owner on the planet, you need one more […]
Give Your Wine Shop Customers What They Wa
May 7th, 2013You probably can’t predict what bottles a customer will or won’t like, but you stand a better chance of making the sale – and winning a customer for life – if you pay attention to what type of shopper you’re talking to. [level-members] A conversation I had over the weekend with a shop owner reminded […]
Wine Retail Industry News – State Regulatory Battles, Climate Change, Fracki
May 6th, 2013Industry news highlights from the past week: state regulatory battles at home and abroad, New Zealand wine and climate change, fracking and its possible effects on some wine regions, and IntoWine.com’s Top 100 Most Influential People in the U.S. Wine Industry 2013. [level-members] Add Missouri and Kansas to the list of states reconsidering their alcohol regulations. […]