In 2009 I commit to finding more ways to include more of YOU as extensions of our team.
Much of our expansion in 2009 will come through growing our team of employees and partners. For instance, we are very close to announcing a sales director for the West Coast who will focus on Direct to Trade selling [...]

How do you define expensive wine?
I think what makes a wine a good value (or expensive) is in part a measure of the quality of the wine (how friggin’ good it is) to the sticker price - this is what wine industrry people call the QPR (i.e., the Quality to Price ratio). Though of course no [...]

There are foods that can translate PLACE.
Like wine.
And olive oil, honey, cheese.
There may be others.
Wine is alchemy in action. Wine turns dirt into gold.
Israeli wine has a unique PLACE to translate.
You can begin answering interesting questions when you drink Israeli wine.
Like…what did Jesus drink?
And…what does merlot taste like from the valley where David killed Goliath?
Wine, [...]

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 [...]

I announced at our Press Conference at Flam winery Wednesday afternoon that Israeli Wine Direct is challenging the best United States wineries to a friendly tasting challenge in 2008, also the 60th anniversary of the (re)birth of Israel.
It’s time to re-orient the wine world back to the birthplace of wine.
Does the US wine market produce [...]

A great way to jumpstart your biz is to look for people you have things in common with and PLAY with them.
So, here we go…
Doron Rand, former CEO of Israel’s Recanati Winery (he’s on the right in the photo), who lives now in the San Franciso Bay Area, is joining Israeli Wine Direct in [...]

One of the smartest people alive on the planet today (I can’t speak for other planets like Tom Cruise might be able to) is Roger Dooley, of The Neuromarketing Blog and Dooley Direct, LLC, his consultancy. If you are involved in any way with HUMAN BEINGS (and most of us are [smile]) then you need [...]

Being around a lot of unbelievably hip hot women lately has made me realize some things:
Some of the best businesses are all about Bringin’ the Love into People’s Lives.
Most people just want to win; cool people want as many other cool people to win as possible.
Most people talk to you in a way that elevates [...]

This is the first post in a series called WINE: WHAT IT BE that promises NOT to be your Daddy’s Traditional Boring Wine Commentary, promise.

I’m BORED with the Robert Parker-Ralph Nader-Consumer Reports Approach to wine, the most metaphysical alchemical substance in the Universe.
Check out how Food writers write about Food, or how Erotica authors talk [...]