Nikitas Magel's Blog – April 2009 Archive (3)

Commerce Meets Community

Bottlenotes: Crossing Wine Retail with Social Media.

Imagine a single place where you could easily buy wines, talk about them with friends old and new, discover ones that perfectly suit your taste, and then share your discoveries in the form of gifts to others. Welcome to Bottlenotes. Not your run-of-the mill online wine retailer, it's one that provides customers with an entire suite of services devoted to making the buying of wine not… Continue

Added by Nikitas Magel on April 24, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

The Magic Of Montemaggiore

An Interview on the Biodynamics of Dry Creek Valley's Montemaggiore.

Biodynamics. Based in a holistic and largely spiritual world view, it seeks to balance the interrelationship of land with the plants and animals thriving on it as a tightly integrated and self-nourishing system. While a great deal of biodynamic principles remain unexplained and in many cases even questionable, increasingly more grape growers in the wine industry are… Continue

Added by Nikitas Magel on April 15, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Vine-staker to Winemaker

An Interview with the CEO of Post & Trellis Vineyards & Winemaker of La Honda Winery

A quasi-urban wasteland of industrial warehouses and technology business parks, Redwood City is, without a doubt, among the unlikeliest of locations for a producer of premium California wines. But it was in this very setting that I found myself during a recent visit to La Honda Winery, one of the increasingly numerous of its kind as part of the… Continue

Added by Nikitas Magel on April 4, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments