There are lots of little tactics that I’ve collected over the past year that I thought were great ways to provide a remarkable experience to guests at our future tasting room. Hospitality is king in the wine industry and any way to make a guest remember their visit to your ...

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the components of a successful Wine 2.0 mashup since my post last week. In looking at a general listing of all tech mashups , I found that most of them had some form of mapping involved. When drilling into the 36 food related mashups , nearly all of them had Google or Yahoo maps. Hmm, this gives me an idea or two...

With the takeover of South Africa's largest wine export brand by volume, Kumala, by the world's biggest wine company, Constellation Brands, job losses in the SA wine industry on the bottling front are looking very likely.

One of the Wine 2.0 sites I’ve been checking out for a few weeks is the oddly named Scrugy (S-”cru”-gy, get it? Me neither). Naming aside, it is one of these new breed of sites that mashes up blog aggregation, wine search, tasting notes, winery directory and a bunch more stuff into an information ... content. Overall I think Scrugy is a good attempt at a Wine 2.0 mashup but it has a ways to go...

... and Vivi’s Wine Journal . We both agreed that the current Web 2.0 wine sites (I’m calling them now “Wine 2.0″) don’t have enough benefits to reach critical mass and that a “mashup ” of these sites is most ... , some of these groups overlap somewhat, so Wine 2.0 sites can’t just define individual customer groups ... this conversation we will arrive at some Wine 2.0 sites that reach critical mass and become...

... and Vivi’s Wine Journal . We both agreed that the current Web 2.0 wine sites (I’m calling them now “Wine 2.0″) don’t have enough benefits to reach critical mass and that a “mashup ” of these sites is most ... , some of these groups overlap somewhat, so Wine 2.0 sites can’t just define individual customer groups ... this conversation we will arrive at some Wine 2.0 sites that reach critical mass and become...

Want a peek into the future and how we’re getting there? Take a look at this relatively short YouTube video: (If it’s not showing up, use this link .) Then read this column by Tim Elliott (from Winecast). The real question is, what will Wine 3.0 look like? I’m sure it will be mind-blowing. Technorati Tags: Wine , Web 2.0 , Wine 2.0...

Want a peek into the future and how we’re getting there? Take a look at this relatively short YouTube video: (If it’s not showing up, use this link .) Then read this column by Tim Elliott (from Winecast). The real question is, what will Wine 3.0 look like? I’m sure ...

This one’s ah fun one! Beau over at Basic Juice has to come up with a great, and innovative, theme for the next edition of, the now infamous, WBW wine blogging web event. Rather than being restricted to drink a bottle made with this grapes from that region and costsso many dollars, he's turned this WBW thing into an interactive web escapade, he's given us a list of regions to choose from...

I’ve been using a couple “Wine 2.0 ” services for the past few weeks and really like the river of wine blog news these provide. I’ve discovered a few new blogs along the way and enjoy seeing how some stories ripple through the wine blogosphere. I’m almost ready to convert 100% off the à la carte blog subscription model but I think I’ll wait until these sites are a bit more mature. To get a taste...