Some of you  have heard me talking about a new LLC I formed with my pal Leah Jones here in Chicago.
Leah dropped the idea that grew into the company over supper with me late one night at Matilda, her fave haunt, as easy as if she had said “please pass the salt” (this happens a [...]

Maybe this has happened somewhere else before with Israeli wine but I don’t think so.
Israeli Wine Direct is beginning now to sell Futures (or Pre-Arrivals) of the best premium wines coming out of Israel. “Futures” is just a fancy wine-world way of saying we can let you buy limited exclusive premium wines now for delivery [...]

Earlier this evening, in a small town on the coast of North Carolina, my parents and their good friends Bruce and Deirdre enjoyed some wine from two small Israeli wineries thousands and thousands of miles away.

They actually conferenced me in 1,000 miles away here in Chicago for a few minutes of the tasting.
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As you know, we poured wine from Israel for 250+ female bloggers at Guy Kawasaki’s home last Thursday night!
Here is another photo with two new pals with whom we shared great wine and conversation:

That’s Melanie Notkin on the left (check out her site for Aunts - SavvyAuntie.com) and Rachel Sarah - author of Single Mom [...]

Tim and I had an amazing time last night pouring wine at the Alltop & Kirtsy.com pre-BlogHer conference house party at Guy Kawasaki’s beautiful home in Atherton, CA.
Guy was nice enough to invite me to pour Israeli wine for his guests.
Here’s a photo Guy took of Tim and me. 

People loved the wines we served and [...]

Hey, check this out!
Guy Kawasaki invited me to his home next week to pour Israeli wine for - are you ready? - 200 of the top female bloggers. They’ll be in San Francisco for the Blogher Conference. Blogher is an online community for women bloggers.
Guy’s blog How To Change The World and his book The Art of [...]

I have spoken before about the need we have to get as many Americans as possible to taste wine from Israel.
What you experience when you try these wines is SURPRISE and then EXCITEMENT and then there’s that MOMENT when it hits you that you’re tasting something few people have ever tasted…Israel in a bottle, the Future [...]

Good morning!
I’m leaving home now for the TECH Cocktail conference in Chicago.
I’ll be attempting to Tweet “live” from the conference out to my followers on Twitter.
If you want to hear the key messages from some of the hottest tech + marketing + startup people out there right now (including Gary Vaynerchuk), sign up for my [...]

Just a reminder that my wife and I will be in Napa this June 19-22 at the Jewish Vintner’s weekend.
Follow this link to get info about the event.
Golan Flam will be there with us as a guest Israeli winemaker (then he’s coming back with me to Chicago for meetings and tastings — email me if [...]