Yep. Really. I’m crazy excited to tell you that I will soon be authoring a freelance wine column on Playboy.com. So now you have some legitimacy behind the “I’m just going there for the articles, honey!” excuse (you’re welcome!). The folks behind Playboy.com reached out to me many moons ago, and the whole thing has…
Category: going pro
“Proof That Social Media Has Forever Changed The Landscape Of Wine?”
Well… if this isn’t “proof that social media has forever changed the landscape of wine” (their words, not mine), then I’m not really sure what is. Ok, so it’s not really proof, but it’s hard to deny the traction when someone like me makes the top 20 in a list like this. And #14?? Seriously?!?…
Where Can Wineries Really Innovate? In Engaging The People Who Actually Drink The Stuff!
I was recently interviewed by WineSpiralProject.com, as part of their series on wine industry innovation, in which they interview personalities in the wine world and ask them to share thoughts on the wine biz and how it can/should innovate. Yeah, I know, I’m not 100% certain why they picked me either, but what’s done is…
You Are The Wine Conversation (What’s A Wine Critic To Do When Everyone Is A Wine Critic?)
IntoWine.com recently (at least I think it was recently, as their posts for reasons unknown to me aren’t dated) ran an interview with SF Chronicle wine editor Jon Bonné (long-time readers will recall that roughly a year ago I was on a panel about writing better opinion pieces with Jon and the Wall Street Journal’s…



