When I asked Ryan to explain his choice of name for the new O’Vineyards wine OMG, he replied: “I’m an O’Connell. So it’s O’Vineyards, O’Syrah, O’MG, hahaha”

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 [...]

The 2011 European Wine Bloggers Conference (EWBC) happened in Brescia, Italy last month.  I had the honor of moderating a session on Saturday and here is the video recording. Blogger’s Stories – Storytelling in action from Vrazon on Vimeo. The entire conference was themed around storytelling and we had lots of sessions about how to [...]

We were very proud to se that the Magazine l’Express released a special wine issue with a full page feature of O’Vineyards and several references to our websites (the issue had an extensive spread on wine blogging and wine websites). I’m including the article about us below, but I highly recommend picking up an issue [...]

The video went up of my talk at O’Reilly’s London Ignite 4. I announced earlier that I would be presenting on Pretending to be an Expert. And while it went very well, I get the sense that some people were hoping for a how to. Which will surely come soon. I’ll do a tutorial on [...]

My UK importer Naked Wines just celebrated its second birthday.  And like all good business relationships, I feel like any cause for them to celebrate is a cause for me to celebrate as well.  They’ve come very far in 2 years, and it seems like they have a lot farther to go.  The Naked Wines [...]

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 [...]

I feel really good when my wines receive positive comments and I brag about them in this blog.  However, I still feel strange bragging about nice things that get said about me.   But my parents assure me that the Internet exists in large part to brag about your exploits. So uhm Robert Joseph, who [...]

How do you convince a bunch of wine professionals to work with other winemakers? You do it with the help of other winemakers, obviously!

A success  and many great compliments  adressed to Ryan by the net readers, the tweeter and facebook users……and more. The article signed irishherault says it all. “ViniSud 2010 Or take a young winemaker based just north of Carcassonne in the Aude, called Ryan O’Connell. On Thursday Ryan posted another new video to one of his [...]