June 23, 2025
There are lots of things you can learn by reading a book. Becoming an effective keynote speaker isn’t one of them. Speaking requires doing. It requires standing up in front of 200 people over and over again until you’re so comfortable with speaking, you can’t wait to go on. It requires a certain generosity of […]
June 19, 2025
Most of us hope to taste at least some great wines sometime in our lives, and those of us in the wine business spend our entire “wine lives” tasting in pursuit of wines’ greatness. In my consulting, greatness is also a theme I build many corporate wine tastings and executive wine seminars around. For who […]
June 5, 2025
One of the comments I most often hear when giving a corporate wine seminar is: “I know what I like when I taste it, but I don’t know how to describe it.” It makes sense. Describing wine is incredibly hard. So hard, that most us revert to using the language of food to describe wine. […]
May 22, 2025
Right now, there’s a lot of sex in the vineyards. (Strictly between the vines of course). And it may sound odd to say, but it’s also a great time to visit wine country. Cultivated vines are hermaphroditic, meaning that the reproductive organs of both sexes are simultaneously present. So, come late Spring, grapevines pollinate themselves. […]
