My first blog, Wine Outlook, was sorta left Behind months ago…  I only occasionally update it, mainly to give announcements about Rosenblum Cellars, such as our upcoming Open House and the like. (It’s hard enough to keep one going, you know?) But since Behind the Vines will disappear from the blogosphere in a week, I need to find a new home for Wine Book Club #4.  Therefore, please don’t give up on Jancis.  Keep reading Tasting Pleasure: Confessions of a Wine Lover.  Except you won’t be leaving me your links here.  Instead, there’s a new post for contact. Okay, technically, it’s the same post in a different place, but you know what I mean…. You have exactly one month from tomorrow to get... [Read more]

Here is the link for the Urban Wine Road segment (it’s the second one) on View From the Bay that came on yesterday. We watched the never-used tasting room television, with its fuzzy picture, as our images flew past. But there we were, no flubs, thank goodness! And cheers to fellow East Bay wineries: our friends from Lost Canyon, Dashe, JC Cellars, and Periscope. Everyone sounded great, and several folks mentioned how it’s so much easier for Bay Area residents to get to our wineries than Napa. Less traffic, more relaxed setting. That money you save on gas will get you a nice bottle or two… [Read more]

About a year ago, I wrote perhaps my most comment-provoking, post-inspiring piece about women knowing wine, all because the waitress was going to let BK taste the bottle that I had ordered. Over the past few days, Bay Area news has been abuzz with the discrepancies in men and women’s salaries, with about $10,000 separating the median incomes, in favor of the males.  I just spent more time than I should have searching for figures specific to the wine business.  While I did find that there is such a gender gap in Ireland and New Zealand and that more men are in management positions in the restaurant world, I couldn’t uncover the numbers I was really seeking.  Though I can make a few guesses.  Some of the better-paying jobs, according... [Read more]

It’s crazy busy at the winery today with Open House preparations and processing orders on hold.  While I shovel pizza and water down my throat in order to take a very quick lunch, I wanted to give a little update.  I’ll be writing here until the end of the month, but it’s still up in the air as to what will happen next.  Stick with me the next couple weeks, and I will have an answer in one shape or another. EDIT: Also, a bit of good news after this very long day is over. When one of the ABC guys for View From the Bay called to get a blurb about Rosenblum and remind me to watch tomorrow (I don’t have a DVR, and I’ll be at work), I got to ask about our segment.  It’s split up with other East Bay wineries,... [Read more]

 I hesitate to mention the following announcement.  But I’m all about spreading the Rosenblum love, so I’ll put my personal feelings aside, mostly. Okay, here it is.  We’ll be on ABC’s View from the Bay this Wednesday, at 3 pm.  And by we, I mean too much me.  Even though I pointed out the presence of an actual Rosenblum after the tasting room footage, Nick and the gang had me follow them downstairs. It was all so fast and furious, I am still kicking myself for a major flub (our club members are locally…located) and the fact that someone told me later my new glasses–that I’m still getting used to– were transitioning in the incoming sunlight.  The whole thing lasted maybe twenty minutes. ... [Read more]