The 2008 Philadelphia Wine Festival is today. The beneficiary this year is the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), one of the best children’s hospitals in the country.
Lots of good wineries present - and an extra-special liquor store set up by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, one of the most over-bearing and ridiculous monopolies in […]

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(Update on 23 June 2008: The final paper is now published. A summary is available here. Our summary below is based on the working draft - some aspects possibly changed prior to final publication.)
The last year or so has seen an awful lot of interesting research being done on the consumer’s preferences for […]

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Consumers like to see scores for wines. They just do.
Wine people really hate to boil it all down to a single number (well, most of them hate it) but there is just no getting around it.
Recently the good folks over at Domaine547.com started a great conversation. It stemmed from an […]

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Big surprise for us - Winescorecard.com is a Killer Startup. If you like us, please head out and vote for us.
One of the things this review picked up on that we haven’t really spoken about is how Winescorecard is really an ideal tool for building brand awareness for vineyards and other wine-related products.One of […]

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Like most men, I am not really a fan of Valentine’s Day. I know that this probably comes as a shock, but I think it is just a tacky, contrived concept.
Not surprisingly, we didn’t do too much for the holiday.
I took my two kids to swim lessons while my wife went jogging.
When we […]

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