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Archive for the ‘Wine 2.0’ Category
Bringing Rhone Rangers to Your Living Room
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Better alert Stephen Hawking because it’s almost like we’ve broken the space time continuum. I mean, how else would it be possible to participate in the Rhone Rangers Grenache tasting which actually takes place on Saturday March 27 from 2:45-4PM PST in San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center while you’re sitting on your couch in Boca Raton on [...]
Tags: aver family, brixr, curtis winery, david girard vineyards, Edward Sellers, holly's hill, katin, petrali, pug wines, purple teeth cellars, qupe, rhone rangers, sawtooth winery, sierra vista winery, skinner vineyards, sol rouge, Spangler Vineyards, stage left cellars, tasting packs, tercero wines, terry hoage, unti, Wine 2.0, wine tasting
Posted by noah in Crushpad Events, Products, Wine 2.0 | 1 Comment »
The 2009 Fusebox Blend-Off Championships
Monday, October 19th, 2009You’ve heard of cookoffs, playoffs and at the ballot box even runoffs. This year we’re introducing a new kind of off and it’s a blend-off. That’s right a blend-off. As in a winemaking blendoff between ten illustrious wine bloggers. We hereby give you the first annual 2009 fusebox blend-off competition.
We’ve armed each of these dynamic [...]
Tags: cabernet, cabernet franc, contest, fusebox blendoff, merlot, napa, Wine 2.0, wine blending, winemaking
Posted by noah in Crushpad Events, Products, Wine 2.0, Wine Making Videos, Wine Making at Crushpad | 1 Comment »
Social Winemaking for a Great Social Cause
Thursday, October 15th, 2009Our largest winemaking group to date is probably in the hundreds. Gary Vaynerchuk made a Vayniac Cabernet with a bunch of crazy Vayniacs in 2007. But today, with the launch of The Fledgling Initiative, we’re going to try social winemaking on a grander scale by inviting the tens of millions of people in the Twitter [...]
Tags: crushpad, room to read, social winemaking, twitter, winemaking
Posted by noah in Crushpad in the News, Our Customers, Wine 2.0, Wine Making at Crushpad | No Comments »
What do Twitter, Crushpad and Room to Read have fermenting?
Monday, October 12th, 2009This Thursday we’re going to announce something very special with Twitter and Room to Read. We’re pretty jazzed about this project as it will present many firsts for Crushpad and make a huge impact around the world. You probably already know Twitter, unless you’ve been living under a rock, but you should also get to [...]
Tags: crushpad, fledgling, room to read, social winemaking, twitter, wine
Posted by noah in Crushpad in the News, Wine 2.0, Wine Making at Crushpad | No Comments »
Forget Snow Leopard OS, We’ve Got Snow Leopard Wine
Friday, August 28th, 2009Snow Leopards are fantastically cool. And if you’re reading the Crushpad blog we know you think wine is cool. With all due respect to what I’m sure is a fabulous operating system from Apple, OSs are not that cool. Now you can help save Snow Leopards and drink some smoking stuff with Snow Leopard The [...]
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A really good internship
Friday, May 1st, 2009So you didn’t get picked for the “Really Goode Job” promotion? Well, we’ve got something that might be even better.
We’re taking applications for three and six month internships in our Wine Business MBA program. The selected few will be able to work on mission critical projects touching just about every aspect of business here at [...]
Posted by noah in Starting a Wine Business, Wine 2.0 | No Comments »
Bohemian Wins Shootout
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009I feel like our clients are on a major roll lately. In specific, our Pinot clients have been winning accolades right and left. We’ve had Armanino, 5 Points, Lionheart, Joelle, Fulcrum, Dain and Rockroom all recently score 90+ points for their Pinots in Wine Spectator or Wine Advocate. Plus, we’ve had great showings at the [...]
Tags: bohemian vineyard, crushpad, pinot noir, pinot shootout, russian river valley, wine contest
Posted by noah in Awards, Our Customers, Starting a Wine Business, Wine 2.0, Wine Making Team | No Comments »
Serving Up Fine Winemaking Knowledge Daily
Thursday, March 19th, 2009We like to think that we do a good job of teaching our clients about winemaking. In fact, people often tell us that the learning part is a huge component of making wine at Crushpad. We do all kinds of educational tastings and blending sessions that are open to the public. So, we were standing [...]
Posted by noah in Uncategorized, Wine 2.0, Wine Making at Crushpad | 2 Comments »
Fusebox on Rodeo Drive
Thursday, November 13th, 2008Nestled between Jimmy Choo and Tiffany on Rodeo Drive is one of our favorite new wine shops, Wine Valet.
They have a small but exceedingly well selected stock of wines and also provide some cool services like home wine tasting parties, cellar consultation and auction services. Now they also carry Fusebox and are the exclusive [...]
Tags: crushpad, fusebox, wine blending, winemaking
Posted by noah in Wine 2.0 | No Comments »
More Love for Canine Wines
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Congratulations to Crushpad Commerce customers, Matt Raymond and Kelly Naughtin and their Canine Wines brand. We wrote about them a few months back when they were featured in the Contra Costa Times. Now the American Winery site is showing them some love with a nice post here
Canine Wines is a great story. With the [...]
Tags: canine wines, Crushpad Commerce
Posted by Patrick Hurley in Crushpad in the News, Starting a Wine Business, Wine 2.0, Wine Making Videos | No Comments »
Super Groupers Unite!
Thursday, August 28th, 2008Last night we hosted the San Francisco Super Group Pinot Pizza Party. (That’s a mouthful huh?) Since we weren’t able to launch Community Crush in all San Francisco neighborhoods this year, The Super Group consists of a motley group of neighborhoods from North Beach to Bayview to Noe Valley. It may end up being our [...]
Tags: community crush, Crushpad Events, group winemaking, pinot noir, pizza party, santa lucia highlands
Posted by noah in Crushpad Events, Wine 2.0 | No Comments »
Canada Shows Crushpad the Love
Monday, August 18th, 2008So this is nice. Had received a few Google alerts over the weekend that Crushpad was being discussed at VinoCamp up in Vancouver, BC. Thanks to Township 7 wine maker Bradley Cooper for making us part of his presentation.
Tags: vinocamp
Posted by Patrick Hurley in Wine 2.0 | No Comments »
Is That a Winemaker in Your Pocket?
Thursday, August 14th, 2008No, it’s the Crushnet TV Podcast! And we’re happy to see it.
Want to learn how to make wine while flying at 30,000 feet? Want to figure out your oak regimen for your wine while you’re on lunch break? Now you can take the Crushpad winemaking team with you wherever you go by subscribing to our [...]
Tags: crushnet, podcast, video, Wine Making Videos
Posted by alan in Wine 2.0, Wine Making Videos, Wine Making at Crushpad | No Comments »
New Neighborhoods for Community Crush
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Yesterday Community Crush launched its 4th and 5th groups for the 2008 harvest. The new groups are SOMA and the San Francisco Super Group. SOMA, which had the biggest crowd on the waiting list, is going to make a Syrah from Premier Coastal Vineyard in northern Santa Barbara County. SOMA also represents [...]
Tags: community crush, san francisco, soma
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