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Featured Authors
Peter joined Crushpad as CEO after over 20 years of wine, technology and luxury goods experience. Previously, Peter was Executive Vice President and...
Liz Willette was bitten by the wine bug while living in Beaune, France. At the time she was working for Butterfield & Robinson, a high-end active travel company...
Richard Leahy has been writing about wine for consumers and producers since 1986. He was a regional editor for Kevin Zraly’s American Wine Guide, and was...
Ashton Keefe is the Owner/Executive Chef of Ashton Keefe LLC. Culinary Lifestyle Services, which specializes in boutique catering, food styling and culinary...
Sondra Barrett, PhD fell in love with food early on when she starting reading cook books as a young girl. She hasn’t stopped since. She earned a PhD in biochemistry...
Jon Thorsen is the founder of the popular blog The Reverse Wine Snob: Thumbing My Nose At Bottles Over $20!. The idea behind the blog...
Kay Zink the founding president of www.AtoZinfandel.com and serves on the company’s national board as the Director of Social Media and writer. She is also...
James Melendez is the author of the blog, "James the Wine Guy." He is a San Francisco-based wine writer, videographer, educator...
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Creating the ultimate chocolate lovers wine
Our friends from TasteTV approached us with a really great idea that we couldn’t refuse. Crushpad’s wine makers are going to team with some of the Bay Area’s top chocolatiers to design the perfect wine for chocolate lovers. And you … Continue reading
Bottle Shock Premiere Party & Judgment of Paris Redux
Two days removed from our Bottle Shock premiere party and I’m already playing it over in my mind. 200 wine lovers in their element at Crushpad. Winemaking royalty like Bo & Heidi Barrett and Gustavo Brambila in attendance. Movie producers … Continue reading
18 Reasons for Community Crush
Last Friday night 18 Reasons, the event space owned by Bi-Rite, hosted a tasting in support of Community Crush. We had a great turnout with a mix of people already in the Mission group and folks who were curious about … Continue reading
Welcome Emi Foldi, Crushpad’s newest wine maker
Hungary’s loss is Crushpad’s gain. Our newest wine maker, Emi Foldi, comes to us from Hungary — by way of Australia and Washington state — having worked at the likes of Chateau Ste Michelle, Palmaz Vineyards and Chappellet. She’ll be … Continue reading
Nicholls Wine rakes in the awards at SF International Wine Competition
Congratulations to Crushpad Commerce customer, Malcom Nicholls. Not only did he walk away with two silvers and one bronze from the tasting portion of the recent 2008 San Francisco International Wine Competition. He also won a gold medal for label … Continue reading
Introducing “Barrel Man”
When we launched our Community Crush neighborhood wine making program a few months back, we were kicking around fun, grassroots ways to get out the word. You can see what we came up with. Yes, a wearable wine barrel. Noah … Continue reading
