So, I’ve been pretty cagey about this but here’s the official announcement: Ryan O’Connell is moving to California for part of 2012.  The company I’m working with in California is looking for new wines and new business opportunities and they think I can help.  I think I can help too. I’m leaving tomorrow.  I’ll be [...]

This summer, we were very excited to be featured in a special wine issue of L’Express magazine in France.  This is a national magazine and the equivalent of TIME in the United States.  So it’s got a wide reach, and the people reading it aren’t necessarily wine geeks. Billing me as an American in Carcassonne, [...]

As you probably know, the O’Podium gift box features one wine aged three different ways. It’s a unique way to learn the difference between different aging processes because the wine is exactly the same except for the three aging processes: Unoaked, American oak, French oak