Carla's Mom (Carla THE Tasting Room Chick) came out from New Yahk to visit this week. Lorraine treated the Crush Crew to an amazing pasta dinner this week, the kind with that slow cooked Italian gravy that no one has...

This has been a challenging week in ways that have nothing to do with the wine biz. (I may share why at a future time...) but the net effect is that I have left you hanging about the events of...

Winesmith shares his Twisted with us at the White House. (Yes, that White House.) I can only imagine what the Secret Service thought.... Thanks Alan!...

Twisted Few members Garth and Chris Fitzpatrick (and family) recently visited Colombia (like in South America, not that other Columbia), and Paulo Pollo was a guest on the trip. Garth and Chris sent us a few photos of Paulo having...

I've fooled you - this isn't about recalcitrant yeast in a non-zero brix environment. Instead I wanted to comment on a post by Mike over at Winery Web Site Report titled Is Wine Stuck? Mike quotes another post on Seth...

Last week we got a phone call from the folks who run the Sierra Railroad, which operates vintage trains year-round out of Oakdale, CA. They asked us if we wanted to be the featured winery on their Dinner Train on...

... wow - thanks Katie! Link: Chicken Farts and Great Wine...

My rubber chicken came to work with us today, and hopefully had a good time. He got a little bored ... , I'm not sure how many of you have ever walked the streets of a major city carrying a rubber, chicken, but for some reason, people seem to stare at you while you do. And all my poor chicken Bob wanted ... here.First he (my chicken is a boy, he's a little confused as to why he's a chicken) got a gander...

chicken?", rather it is "How do I get a rubber chicken so I can play too?" I want to stress that the rubber chicken you take to work does not have to be a Genuine Original Recipe Twisted Rubber Chicken (though it wouldn't hurt!) Any rubber chicken will do. You can even borrow a rubber chicken ... is the rubber chicken have the proper going-to-work experience - and that you document it for all to enjoy...

El Jefe was visiting the Ahwahnee Hotel Dining Room in Yosemite Valley today, and, well, hilarity ensued.... Hope these "At Work" pictures from the ginormous 6500 square foot kitchen help inspire your own Take Your Rubber Chicken To Work Week efforts...