Newsletter Archives

Wine Marketing/Lifestyle

Annoyances. (Fall '07) If this newsletter doesn’t stimulate you or make you chuckle or make you a tad angry, you may be dead. At least it should annoy you. If not yet annoyed, pick from the following tidbits and eek out a small rant.

Chocolate & Terroir. (Spring '07) As a lover of fine wine, chances are you are also a lover of fine chocolate. In fact, the two indulgences may be more closely related than you might think.

Doppleganger. (Summer/Fall '02) Harry's May visit to southern Germany with daughter, Wynne

Hot Topics : marketing issues heat up. (Spring '01) Climate dictates the quality of wine available to most of you. Definitely the climate of the growing region, ... but also the political climate and shipping climate are critical to getting and maintaining delicate wines like ours.

Looking Forward, Looking Back. (Fall '99) Millennium Madness (MM) is upon us and the hoopla is humorous.... Pause to honor the past and preict the future--it's natural.

On the Road Again. (Spring '99) Three or four weeks on the road, meeting people and finding out how surprisingly different one part of the country still is from another.

Salivations. (Summer '99) or, when how well you eat is more important than how much you eat. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner IS the evening -- Art Buchwald.

Satyricon. (Fall '07) The public media and trade presses have been awash in recent wine-related breakthroughs about which you might be interested, since they promise to change the wine industry radically over the next decade. We’ve recapped the tastiest bits of news below, and, as in all things at Chehalem, there is a nugget of truth or principle imbedded here within a hard-surfaced rant or cotton-candy billow of frivolity.

Slow Food Movement. (Summer '99) The urge to rediscover the flavors and savors of regional cooking: a new movement afoot.

The Tasting Panel. Thanks for the help! Over the last year a hearty group of, now, 60 people have helped assess wines upon release.

Y2K: Millenium Mischief. (Winter '00) Wasn't Y2K the little Star Wars robot? Weren't we supposed to be smart? Isn't it appealing to embrace for a week or so no cell phones/no ATMs/no airline flights/interrupted car travel, shopping, TV and internet ...