I landed (finally) and my luggage didn’t. Oh well. I’m in Tampa. I got a few hours of sleep. I’m going to pack the wine and bring it (past deadline) to Sarasota. We’ll see if we can salvage the expo experience despite the Airline conspiracy to destroy my itinerary. I’ve always thought that Charles de [...]
I tried to do an elevator pitch for Jim Kukral at the Daily Flip. He’s doing an educational contest / promotion where people can get feedback on 15 second pitches about their product or company. I don’t verbally identify myself or my brand so he kind of rips me a new one, but that’s what [...]
I made a sister video to accompany the barrel music video. It wraps up the barrel trifecta with a couple of shout outs and an answer to one of the questions I got from the Vayniac forums. Check out the rest of the blog at Ryan O’Connell’s wine blog
I got written up by a Master of Wine living in the Languedoc. Juliet Bruce Jones dropped the O’bomb when talking about noteworthy vineyards in the Cabardes region of France. Thank you, Ms. Jones. Read more here: http://www.aude-vie.com/page19/page19.html Also, we’ve been getting some good feedback from the Vayniacs at the winelibrarytv.com forum. If you’ve never [...]
We just moved a ton of wine barrels onto the oxoline shelving. Full barrels are really, really heavy so we actually put empty barrels on the shelves and then pumped the wine from a full barrel in the middle of the room into an empty barrel on the shelf. This is a tedious and lengthy [...]
I posted a youtube video about the different pruning methods. There’s spur pruning and cane pruning. These are known here as Cordon Royat and Guyot, respectively. At O’Vineyards, we’re in the process of converting from Guyot to Cordon Royat and this video explains why we think this will be good for the wine. PS – [...]
(warning: mild cursing) Okay, This is only peripherally related to O’Vineyards in that I am O’Vineyards and I made this delicious dish with my friends. We just made an enormous, decadent pizza sandwich. That’s a sandwich where you put something delicious in between two large slices of bread except that each slice of bread is [...]
