Spain is also the first country to have bought foreign rights to my book it comes out there in 2010! Next stop? Spain. Logrono. And the V Marketing Forum in Rioja. For some reason I'm big in Spain. There have been stories in major publications, my face has been given full -page treatment, plastered with the message--Heroina. MORE >>

Perhaps we should take a page from Gizmodo’s book and come up with a list of items that Gallo legal eagles might want to put in their sight: Pico de gallo salsa. E & J Gallo, the enormous, privately held wine company, is well-known (notorious?) for protecting their brand. They also sued unrelated East Bay company, Gallo Salume Inc., MORE >>

The World Almanac and Book of Facts: 1967. Recently, someone asked me, “so just how big is Burgundy, say, compared to Manhattan?&# Excellent question! Herewith, some of the world’s wine regions and their whole or fractional Manhattan equivalents: Manhattan is the smallest of the five boroughs of New York City at 14,478 acres (22.6 MORE >>

(and if you haven't read my book yet, and you read this blog.BUY IT!) will be reading from the book and perhaps, a little something about a non-wine drinking rat. Hey, I'll be at the Franklin Park Reading Series. First Brooklyn event ever! Other writers are great. Please come and say hello. MORE >>

Back in 2008, the prediction about 2009 was that wine consumers would opt for less expensive wine or stop drinking wine in favor of beer, vodka or shoju (actually, nobody said shoju). So now that the book is closed on 2009, how did your wine buying and consuming change, if at all? Did you deplete your existing stock? MORE >>