Sometimes, it seems like all winemakers have the exact same pitch when talking about their winemaking.  I get to read a lot of winemaker biographies and property descriptions, and they just say the same things over and over and it starts sounding a like its own language: wine bollocks.  Even my own winemaker statement on [...]

I keep finding beer containers positioned on top of my vines in the first row of the Merlot parcel closest to the village.  I figure a simple “Don’t litter, you idiot” would fall on deaf ears.  That message is already everywhere and I’m clearly dealing with an exceptional individual here…. so here’s an open letter [...]

I’ve played a lot with graffiti in the past few months and it’s always been pretty popular.  So I should probably post it here on the blog which is a tad more permanent than facebook status updates and tweets. Sud de France launched an ad campaign with these posters that feature a model who might [...]

I watched some of these satirical 1 minute videos starring a French writer for Libé calling herself Bridget Kyoto.  Donning a military helmet, she advocates the use of ecologically friendly weapons of mass destruction, so that we can wipe dirty countries off the map and replace them with greener ones!   Or she’ll share statistics about [...]

At O’Vineyards, we try very hard to get people buzzing about the Languedoc, Aude, Carcassonne, and even my tiny village of Villemoustaussou. And we are pretty good at making people talk. Somewhere along the line, I started assuming I was Villemoustaussou’s leading voice online…. But I was wrong. Villemoustaussou’s most viral video Patrick Sébastien’s music [...]

I just saw Epicurean Dealmaker ran a big string of Bond movie wine puns on Twitter.  And then other people started weighing in, including Randall Grahm (with some really good ones).  The result is a great list that I wanted to preserve in one easy to read place.  I hope that’s okay with all the [...]

You’ve probably heard people argue about wine bottle closure.  Cork vs. screwtop.  Real cork or synthetic cork.  Bottle vs amphorae. People rage on about technical sounding concepts like TCA and Stelvins and all kinds of crazy advanced crap.  Arguments can employ precise percentages from comprehensive studies or anecdotal evidence from last night’s dinner.  People get [...]

–This is part of an ongoing series about the European Wine Bloggers’ Conference– The European Wine Bloggers’ Conference is full of really cool panels and seminars. SO many that you have to make some tough choices about which to see. I opted toward seeing panels that were not being filmed figuring I’d be able to [...]

So I went to ParisWeb, an amazing technology conference where some of the most gifted coders and technicians in France and from around the world came together to share massive amounts of information. I was given the fantastic opportunity to share some of my web insights and I thank everybody at the conference who sat [...]

Tippex’s interactive youtube ad has a lot of people talking.  It’s a “choose your own adventure” ad with a lot of possibilities. For those who haven’t seen the ad: It seems like a video of a hunter who shoots a bear.  But the hunter decides he doesn’t want to shoot the bear.  He reaches out [...]