By the afternoon, the CEO, Steve Bachmann, posted this to his blog : After three years of very rapid growth — placing it among the top 15 fastest growing private companies in the SF Bay area from 2006 to 2008, Vinfolio experienced a much more difficult sales environment during 2009. The San Francisco-based company had just raised $4.5 MORE >>

Believe I may do a year end article on the subject. Add one more new discovery for 2009 and a reason to be very optimistic for 2010. This has been one fantastic year of enlightenment for me when it comes to all things wine. If I do, I will have to include the German grape, Dornfelder as one of the highlights. MORE >>

2010 Domaine Felines Jourdan Picpoul de Pinet (15.99) -- a really fabulous wine with a bright straw color and floral nose, medium acidity, and a refreshing nature of minerality and apple  with a saline edge. spent a half day in Picpoul with some other educators , and also wrote an article about it for Palate Press. I will try. MORE >>

By-pass surgery and 12 weeks of recuperation were not on my list of goals for 2010. When I say 'going pro,' I am not suggesting taking classes on wine or becoming a sommelier or even a connoisseur, but how I develop and write articles and how I use paid advertising on the blog. Now for my best of 2010. just didn't bring enough. MORE >>

The blog started out in 2008 only as fun thing to do and to give my new wine affiliate web site it's first link. When I made my first Finger Lakes wine tour in 2008, I went expecting to taste only white wines. will post articles about only wines I like and why I like them. decided, since I'm here, why not give a few reds a try. MORE >>