Archive for June, 2015

Brand Personality and What You Stand Again

June 2nd, 2015

The New York Times Magazine recently gave the long-form treatment to the “In Pursuit of Balance” folks who are perhaps the highest profile group amongst the anti-Parker crowd. Plenty has been written of the style wars – high-alcohol, highly extracted vs. more restrained approaches – and I’m not going to go into that again. But the fight […]

Wine Industry News – June 1, 20

June 1st, 2015

Maybe it was because I spent Memorial Day weekend in Washington, DC where the original meaning of the day is much more openly on display (500,000 bikers commemorating their fallen brothers and sisters makes an impact!), but it was disturbing to see Amazon’s email promoting last Monday as “National Wine Day.” Not cool, Amazon. A […]