2nd Annual RiverHops Benefiting North Florida School of Special Education
April 23, 2011– 2nd Annual River Hops on Saturday May 7th, 2011
At the riverfront home of Lori & Tyrie Boyer
Benefiting North Florida School of Special Education
With Matthew Medure of Matthew’s and TAG, Tom Gray of Bistro Aix and Daniel Naes, Anheuser-Busch
Live Music by Singer/Songwriter Alexander Seier
6:00pm – 10:00pm and Tickets $125 per person
For tickets or sponsorship information, contact Melanie Jensen (904) 724-8326 ormjensen@northfloridaschool.org
This Week in Wine…4/23/11
April 23, 2011
Industry attacks psychologist for flawed taste test
The wine industry has attacked Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at Hertfordshire University, for claiming that most people can’t distinguish between cheap and fine wine, but “fool themselves into thinking expensive wines taste better.”
So there has been a little controversy over the methodology this guy used to determine that 578 people couldn’t tell the difference between wine priced at £3.49 compared to wine at £29.99. People are going to be conducting these experiments until the end of time, and all I know is that wine is EXTREMELY subjective. You like what you like, and there’s no disputing that, however I do think that wineries collectively should be doing more to educate consumers as to the attributes of good quality wine.
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Winery’s marketing leaves a bad taste for some
At the Naked Winery tasting room in downtown Custer, the double entendres flow as easily as the wine does.
Naked Winery is an Oregon-based winery with a risque approach to naming and marketing its wines, with its new line of wines taking sexually suggestive wine names such as Foreplay Chardonnay, Penetration Cabernet and Tease Riesling
Tacky for sure, but I have no doubt there is a market for it! Sex shops maybe?
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Funeral Home Becomes Wine Tasting Room
The former Richard Pierce Funeral Service building at Silverado Trail and Lincoln Avenue will live again as a wine tasting venue.
Creepy!
Origin of the Honeymoon?
April 22, 2011
In ancient Babylon, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead (fermented honey beverage) he could drink for a month after the wedding. Because their calendar was lunar -based, this period of free mead was called the "honey month," or what we now call the "honeymoon."
Gorgeous Helen – Wine Glass Lampshades
April 22, 2011
I stumbled across these cool lampshades for your wine glass!
The Gorgeous Helen lampshade pack comes with three parchment shades that each fit neatly over the top of a wine glass. Drop a tea light into the glass, spark it up and – voila! – you’ve got a totally hip wine-themed light for your next dinner party. I checked out a few different sites and the cheapest that I could find a pack for is $18 for 3 shades, available from Emmo Home.
Top 10 Tips for Wineries (and Other Businesses) Using Twitter – Part 1
April 21, 2011
This is another Social Media article that I have been meaning to write for at least 6 months now. The reason that I haven’t gotten around to it sooner is that it takes take so bloody long to put my thoughts into words!
I’m probably going to start transitioning these type of articles to a separate website (I just purchased KrisChislett.com a couple of days ago), but for now I am happy to host them here. Please note that I could have easily turned this article into a book on this subject, but (as always) I wanted to keep it short and to the point.
If you have any questions about any of the information in this article, please feel free to either send an email to kris@blogyourwine.com, tweet me at twitter.com/krischislett, or just leave a comment under this post.
For the sake of this article I am going to strongly advise you that if you are venturing into the “Twitterverse” you use Tweetdeck. There are other tools out there, and I’ve tried the main ones, but nothing compares to Tweetdeck.
Just as a heads-up, in keeping this article along the wine theme, the content is skewed toward wineries specifically, but it is very easy to translate it to be used for other businesses.
Last note before I start the article: I have to confess, I used to be one of those “why would I need to Tweet that I am at home / Starbucks / the bathroom etc…” kind-of-people. It took me quite a while to really get on board with Twitter. I think I have a lot to say, it’s just that I generally don’t just speak for the sake of speaking. If anything I’m more of a listener than a speaker, which as it turns out is EXACTLY what Twitter is supposed to be used for (at least as it relate to businesses)!
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April 20, 2011Radius Workshops is pleased to present their second Lyon Food and Wine Tour. The tour will take place June 13-20, 2011. The group will spend five days in and around Lyon and two days on excursions to the vineyards of Beaujolais, Côtes du Rhône and Burgundy. The voyage will be a Tour de Force of eating and drinking but also a seminar on food culture and society. Participants will attend cooking demonstrations, kitchen tours, visit the glorious food markets and participate in cooking classes. Participants will also explore some of the best wine producing regions in the world, and sample the wine and the cuisine of the area.
A Food and Wine tour of Lyon and the Rhône Valley
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