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My dad deserves wine from @israeliwine a helluva lot more than your dad does

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

I’m offering a year’s Membership in our Proud to Pour Tour Level 2 Wine Club to the winning entry in this contest!
This Membership is a $300 value!
Your dad will receive 6 shipments of handcrafted wine from boutique wineries in Israel and invitations to attend live winemaker interviews and chats.
Your dad has gotta live in one [...]

FREE WINE CONTEST – Calling All Hot Moms

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Here’s how this is gonna work…
I am going to send a 6-pack of premium Israeli wine to the Mother who submits the funniest entry answering the question:
What is the role of wine in your life as a mother?
It can be either a text or video entry.
The only rules are 1) you gotta be a Mom, [...]

Launching mywinetxt.com !!!

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

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 [...]

The Future(s) of Israeli Wine!

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

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 [...]

Bruce B. in New Bern, NC, Is THE REASON I Founded Israeli Wine Direct (For Real)

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

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.
Listen to Me: [...]

Promo Codes and More Friends

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

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 [...]

Jenny The Bloggess Is in Love With Me

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

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 [...]

I’m Pouring Israeli Wine for 200 Lady Bloggers!

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

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 [...]

Get Your Feet Wet with Wine from Israel!

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

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 [...]

LIVE Tweets from Me from TECH Cocktail Conference

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

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 [...]