Articles Written by:    TOM WARK     

The Choices We Make

Most people understand the cost of smoking. These costs tend most often to be measured in years taken off a smokers life. For reasons I think you can understand, I prefer not to think of the costs of my 20+ years of smoking in these terms. However, ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  30 Oct 2009
Related Topics: CONSTELLATION BRANDS INC

The Wheels Fell Off The Wagon in Saint Helena

The city of Saint Helena in the middle of Napa Valley wants to prohibit tasting rooms in its city limits from tasting and selling any wines that do not carry the "Napa Valley" appellation or a Napa Valley sub-appellation on the label. What I can't ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  29 Oct 2009

Why Are America's Wine Wholesalers Giggling?

“We have a system set up in this country for distribution (of wine) that is designed to create accountability and responsibility. Amazon to their credit tried to abide by the laws that created accountability. When they found out they were unable to do ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  28 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Amazon.com

The Wine Of My Dreams

Dreams. The kind you have when slumbering. I can say without equivocation that one of the effects of having quit smoking so very recently is an enhanced vividness of my nighttime dreams. I know they are vivid because even now, a couple hours after ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  28 Oct 2009

The Coming Taste of Wine

"Tom, you're in the wine business and really NEED to be able to taste and evaluate wine. How can you do that when you are layering smoke over your palate. If you quit, just imagine how much more sensitive your palate will be. Just imagine how much ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  27 Oct 2009

Wine Tools and Otherwise

The implements and tools associated with the simple act of drinking wine are so varied and so numerous, you'd think it a complicated thing, when in fact, it's merely a matter of opening a package, pouring a liquid into a vessel and lifting that vessel ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  26 Oct 2009

God Bless Those of Mighty Wills

For 28 years my sensual relationship with wine has been marred by a self inflicted handicap. I smoked. Cigarettes, Cigars, and Pipes. I've done this before. Successfully too. I've successfully stopped smoking four different times....The joke is old ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  26 Oct 2009

Amazon and the Three Tier System of Wine Distribution

Let me tell you what's wrong: It's the death grip that is the Three Tier System. It's one thing to have each and every state deliver different regulations for the sale of wine. But it's an altogether different thing to have that regulation be in the ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  23 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Amazon.com

How Not To Do A Walkaround Wine Tasting

I remember being very, very new to the wine industry. Fresh with a graduate degree and recently hired at a wine PR firm in Santa Rosa called Gracelyn Associates, I knew just enough about wine to get myself in trouble. And of course I did just ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  22 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Paul Draper

Gary Vaynerchuck and The Cult of Passion

Gary Vaynerchuk is coming to Napa Valley. Where: V. Sattui Winery, Saint Helena, Napa Valley, CA When: Saturday, October 24 When: 11am to 1pm Who: Open to the Public Price: Free I don't often mention events on this blog, but I make the exception in ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  21 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Gary Vaynerchuk,  CA Inc.

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