think it is the responsibility of the wine store owner and manager to make sure that the sales staff knows something about the wines being sold. asked a sales guy if he had more bottles. The sales guy then says "They shouldn't do that in the Jura. Ready for some more strange retail stories? know I am. I'd like three," I said. MORE >>

What we need to see is people who are saying we have 35 chardonnays on the list and six Rieslings. We’re going to have 27 chardonnays and 13 Rieslings. Our sales have been pretty good. wouldn’t go so far as to say it has been shooting fish in a barrel but it has been the easiest sale I’ve ever made. Just how good is 2009? MORE >>

In 1973 he and his brother worked the land and sold their first vintage--157 cases of 1973 Chardonnay - to Phil Faight of Groezinger's Wine Shop in Yountville who in turn sold to a small audience of premium wine drinkers who visited Napa on weekends. "So what did the first winery look like?" cakebread cake. MORE >>

At the winery, we are warmly welcomed by blonde, affable Nadia Barnard, who had been assistant winemaker and had just jumped to her new position of handling sales and marketing. “Dazzling!”. Look in the rearview mirror and you can see the bright, almost electric blue water of False Bay, looking very cool and refreshing on a warm summer day. MORE >>

One of the reasons that wine sales historically linger behind cocktail and beer sales is that wine sellers haven’t bothered to listen to the people who don’t drink wine. Those restaurateurs evince interest in selling dessert wines, but insist that sales are insufficient to justify opening a bottle of wine. MORE >>