Posts made in April, 2010

First Things Second

Posted by on Apr 7, 2010

First Things Second

Well, I just realized I hadn’t actually prefaced The Blending Room with more than the announcement. You can’t follow along very well on our TBR project if you  haven’t got a good idea of where we started, can you? So, this is the cement block nest into which we decided to put our ostrich egg called WineGirl Wines. Maybe it was the romance of the blustery, snowy January day that swept us off our feet; or maybe we forgot that its best to make life changing decisions in the summer time when the brain functions at full capacity. Studies in the Antarctic have shown that during...

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Wine in China?

Posted by on Apr 4, 2010

My initial reaction to the above question is They make that there? and I’ve been in the industry for over 10 years. The following blog post is a brief look into the world of China and wine. The China Syndrome According to Mike Veseth in his blog The Wine Economist, “the China Syndrome is both the dream that China will buy all the goods we try to sell her and the fear that she will return the favor and take over our markets.” After studying various scenarios of China as an emerging market, I still can’t seem to wrap my mind around rumors of China becoming the new...

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