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A collection of 48 issues

Building a successful winery tasting room experience before, during and after the visit

Next week, I'll be speaking as part of a panel at the Unified Grape and Wine Symposium in Sacramento. The panel is titled "How to Make Your Tasting Room More Profitable" and is being organized and moderated by California's most respected tasting room consultant,

Zester Daily and a new model for food and wine journalism

Earlier this fall, I was approached by Corie Brown to contribute an opinion piece to the new food and wine Web site Zester Daily. Corie was an editor and the wine columnist at the Los Angeles Times before they eliminated her department in 2008, and in her capacity there I

Tablas Creek on Native Food and Wine

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of spending the afternoon with Kevin Lynch and Amber Share of Native Food and Wine, a relatively new Web blog dedicated to food and wines of place. Kevin and Amber describe their site as a place where they "examine how local

How cool... Tablas sells ad space!

I was amazed (and thrilled) to have a clipping from the San Francisco Chronicle sent to me. It's not editorial coverage, though we've been fortunate enough to get some good editorial coverage in the Chronicle in the last year. It was a Chronicle ad soliciting advertising

Twitter Taste Live, Tablas Creek and an online wine tasting in honor of Hospice du Rhone

A couple of months ago, I created a Twitter account (jasonchaas; or follow it here). I figured that I'd lurk around a little and see what uses it might have for Tablas Creek. Since then, I've spent a higher percentage of my time than usual on

Tablas Creek is a "Best Winery Blog" Finalist!

I'm proud to announce that Tablas Creek has again been named a finalist for "Best Winery Blog" at the 2009 American Wine Blog Awards. These awards, created and administered by the tireless Tom Wark (whose blog Fermentation is a daily must-read for anyone in the wine

Succeeding in a poor economy: it's all about the fundamentals

I get questions every day from people asking how our sales are holding up overall and what we're doing to help survive the current struggling economy. Most people look surprised, and then relieved, to hear we're doing pretty well, all things considered. Our wholesale sales were

Announcing the 2009 American Wine Blog Awards

Tom Wark, on his blog Fermentation, has announced that nominations are open for the 2009 American Wine Blog Awards. We were proud to win the 2008 Best Winery Blog, and I am hoping that we will be competitive in this category again. But, regardless of how we do, these awards

Tablas Creek on "Adam the Wine Guy"

Google alerts can be is an incredibly powerful tool. If you don't yet have one set up to track news and blog posts about your business, you're probably nowhere near the first person to find out what other people are saying about you in public forums.

Why I am feeling optimistic about 2009

I just got back from the national sales meetings of Vineyard Brands (which represents our wines nationally) in Birmingham, Alabama. I present to the sales team each January, and these meetings give me a chance to get the pulse of the national wholesale wine market as well as catch up