The best way to sell a wine is to give someone a sample of it.  As much as I wish the Internet were a solution to everything, the fact that you can't taste a wine over the Net is inescapable. But, here's a French winery using their Web site (alas, I don't read French) to get ...

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On Saturday I was back in the Hunter Valley. The vineyard was different – Tempus Two Winery this time – but I was still ready to enjoy an evening of fantastic music. With a line-up including Tim Freedman, Richard Clapton, Toni Childs, and Jackson Browne, the quality of the show was never in doub...

What is it? Your bounce rate.  Here's why it 's important. Bounce rate is insightful because from the perspective of a website visitor, it measures this phenomenon: "I came; I puked; I left." (OK, technically it also means the number of sessions with just one pageview.)...

Raging bushfires throughout Victoria have forced Simply Red to cancel their Day on the Green show at the state’s Rochford Winery. Country Fire Authorities and state government officials advised the promoter Roundhouse Entertainment that the weather situation was too unpredictable to risk the safet...

Review your analytics (you have them, right?  If not, Google Analytics is FREEEEEE!)   Ask your customers a question (it's not hard.  SurveyMonkey is FREEEEEE!)  Analyze the competition (surfing the Web is FREEEEE!) More  details in this Startup Nation post: 3...

"Every so often there is a certain barrel that grabs your soul."  - Adam Lazarre Every once and again I get what I call jokingly call a winecrush. It's usually on someone fairly young and accomplished who has an amazing passion for wine. For a while, my reigning winecrush was on Johannes Leitz, an ...

A fair number of winery blogs are hosted by Blogger (see The List) , meaning they have URLs that look like acmewinery.blogspot.com Rich Brooks of Flyte New Media offers several good reasons why this is a bad idea:   Why Blogspot is the Wrong Place for  Your Business Blog . I ...

Most winery blogs have fairly mundane and expected names, e.g. The Acme Winery Blog. But, there are exceptions:  Michel-Schlumberger's Benchland Blog , Coral Mustang's Tempranillo Tango , and  Far Niente's  Terroir: Dirty Talk About Wine among them, and The List tries h...

On Monday night, Kevin & I drove up to Dayton to judge the Ohio v Michigan wine clash. Of course, the point of all this is to Drink Local and perhaps make a smaller carbon footprint, and the winners will be sipped at a dinner in Columbus tomorrow night. (Have I mentioned that driving 4 hours rou...