This post is about a “popup” wine tasting that took place during my UK Tour with Naked Wines in 2011. What is a pop up tasting? Whereas most wine tastings are organized weeks or months ahead of time, popups are spontaneous and ephemeral. Organizers of conventional tastings will spend a lot of energy picking the [...]

After the success of my 2010 UK Villages Tour, I’m really looking forward to the much grander scale of the 2011 Naked Wines Tour, a series of ten wine tastings around different cities in the UK. Over 20 independent winemakers, funded by online wine retailer Naked Wines, are flying over to the UK at the [...]

This post belongs to an ongoing series about the Naked MarketPlace, a website that allows any winemaker to pitch wines to the UK market Another big topic of discussion regarding the Naked Marketplace is how it compares to the Advanced Booking system it replaced. How Advanced Booking Worked Naked Wines used to offer one special [...]

This post belongs to an ongoing series about the Naked MarketPlace, a website that allows any winemaker to pitch wines to the UK market Another key aspect of the Naked MarketPlace is the timeframe in which winemakers have to sell their wine. What is the timeframe? By timeframe, I just mean the amount of time [...]

Customer review of Domaine O’Vineyards Trah Lah Lah 2008: Posted by Matthew McClure on 22:18 11/06/2011 Comment on: Domaine O’Vineyards Trah Lah Lah 2008 Delicious, deep and dusty. It should cost more. This is always nice to hear.  “It should cost more”.  I mean, it’s nice to hear delicious too!  But the fact is that [...]

Elin McCoy wrote her Bloomberg column about my UK importer Naked Wines, and her article uses a lot of my personal experiences with the company. It’s a bit strange referring to Naked Wines as a wine importer.  The more I work with them, the more I realize they have many many roles in the wine [...]

This post belongs to an ongoing series about the Naked MarketPlace Recap: What is the MarketPlace The MarketPlace allows winemakers to pitch wines at any price, and the software will automatically calculate shipping, excise, Naked’s cut, VAT, and so on in order to show you the final retail price. But the MarketPlace also allows for [...]

Customer review of Domaine O’Vineyards Proprietor’s Reserve 2005: Posted by Nik Denley on 19:03 29/05/2011 Comment on: Domaine O’Vineyards Proprietor’s Reserve 2005 I was asked the question, would I buy this again. YES! YES I would – utterly delicious. Definitely, needs a good breath before hand. My husband was so enthused with it that I [...]

This is part of the continuing saga of how we listed our wines for sale on the Naked MarketPlace.  To summarize the story so far, the MarketPlace allows us to pitch wines directly to the UK market as long as we drum up enough interest.  Concretely, that means we have to sell 100 cases of [...]

This is part of a series on the Naked MarketPlace, a new initiative from my UK importer that allows any winemaker on earth to sell wine to members of their site.  This first post will explain the basic premise of the MarketPlace.  Future posts will explore how exactly the marketplace works and how it might [...]