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Recommended Reading

I love to laugh and I admire great writing. If you are a little wine geeky or love to make fun of scientists, I highly recommend you find an article in the New Yorker Magazine entitled "Mouse Au Vin" by Noah Baumbach. If you can’t find it, email me and I ...

 
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Taxes, Taxes And More Taxes

You haven’t seen a blog from me in two weeks because Nina has been sitting on them. She doesn’t like me to be political. But, I cannot sit here and not comment when I see the industry I love being threatened. I love the wine business. We are ...

 
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A Nickel For Your Thoughts (Or A Nickel To Save California)

The problem when you allow politicians to be continually re-elected is that sometime in their political life they run out of ideas. This is not their fault. The Chinese believe that we are born with a certain amount of breaths. So why run and use them up ...

 
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The CIA And Mrs. Butterworth

Anyone who has been involved with the Wine Institute knows Leon Panetta. John DeLuca ran the Wine Institute for years, and John was friends with Leon Panetta. I believe John was deputy mayor of San Francisco before he became the head of the wine industry's ...