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Archive for December, 2008

The safest place for your money

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Last Friday barrel man ventured out of his corner of the cellar at Crushpad and found his way to Union Square and the Financial District of San Francisco.  In addition to bemusing small children, frightening the elderly and entertaining the homeless, he also found time to give sage investment advice to patrons of Wells Fargo, [...]

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Menu for Hope

Monday, December 15th, 2008

For the second year we’re participating in Menu for Hope, an amazing food blogosphere fundraiser, appropriately benefiting the UN World Food Programme. Menu for Hope is essentially a big online raffle, with some pretty tantalizing prizes, put on by food bloggers around the world and organized by host Chez Pim. The virtual raffle tickets are [...]

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Dude, Where’s My 401K?

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

A few weeks ago, after staring wide-eyed at the drooping Dow charts all day, we decided that it really wasn’t much fun worrying all the time about something beyond our control.  But watching the stock market bounce around has almost become a sport.  So we decided to create a real sport out of it by [...]

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All I want for Christmas is a Fusebox (the deal)

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Fusebox is once again shaping up to be a great holiday product for us.  Just last week a small business owner, let’s call him Joe the Dry-Waller, purchased 20 Fuseboxes for his best clients.  It is not only a unique and much appreciated holiday gift but it’s also an engaging group activity for holiday get-togethers [...]

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Connor | Brennan Pinot Noir in Chronicle Top 100 Wines

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

This morning while reading the San Francisco Chronicle that I stole from my neighbor, I came across its annual Top 100 wines in the magazine and there’s Connor | Brennan in the list… and Crushpad even got a bit of love.  Congrats to Matt Reidy (he’s the guy that is around often with a clipboard [...]

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Tom Cleary on Vin Village Radio

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Tom Cleary of Bohemian Vineyards was recently featured on Vin Village Radio talking Russian River, Pinot and Crushpad.
Have a listen to Tom here.

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Wine Taxonomies - We’re bigger than Corks, Parker and Syrah

Monday, December 1st, 2008

One of our favorite bloggers (and wine industry PR blackbelt), Tom Wark, recently published his 2×2 matrix that classified many things wine-related in terms of impact and permanence.

Crushpad, the only winery listed on the Fermentations blog entry, ended up in a pretty good position… although Tom had his work cut out for him by combining [...]

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