The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board’s Chief Executive Joseph Conti appeared before the Pennsylvania Senate Law and Justice Committee this week to address its plan to modernize the Board’s operations. Ten proposals were offered to law makers as an effort to stave off privatization of the state’s Wine and Spirit stores. For more read: [...]
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Happy Holidays To Pennsylvania and New Jersey Wineries and Hospitality Businesses
One of the real joys of the holiday season is the opportunity to extend a heartfelt thanks to all Pennsylvania and New Jersey wineries, wine and hospitality businesses for your continued business throughout the year. On behalf of the firm we’d like to wish each of you best wishes for peace and joy this [...]
Did Your Pennsylvania Winery Or Hospitality Business Have A Year Of He Said, She Said “Talk To The Hand”?
Have you suffered adverse consequences in your Pennsylvania restaurant, winery or hospitality business this year by being far too trusting? Did you rely on mutual trust by conducting your business strictly on the basis of a handshake? Perhaps you found yourself in the middle of an ugly verbal confrontations of “he said, she said [...]
Shout Out To Pennsylvania Winery and Hospitality Bloggers: Whose Got The Juice?
Its that time again folks! Wine Blogger Tom Wark at Fermentation has recently announced this year’s finalists for the 2010 American Wine Blogs. Its always interesting to see which social media wine bloggers are giving American media a run for its juice. Is your winery’s blog amongst this [...]
A Pennsylvania Winery Wins Medals At San Diego’s International Sommelier Challenge
The first Sommelier Challenge International Wine Competition was held recently in San Diego, California. Eleven sommeliers from the nation’s finest restaurants gathered to evaluate wines from nine countries. Pennsylvania’s own Crossing Vineyards and Winery, a Bucks County winery in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania earned the Platinum, Gold and Silver medals.
Congratulations to Pennsylvania’s own Crossing [...]
What Secrets Do You Need To Keep In Your Wine or Hospitality Business?
Have you identified information in your winery, wine, or hospitality business that is valuable as a trade secret? Perhaps you have certain technologies, techniques, materials, innovations, inventions, customer lists or formulas that you need to protect? If so, what steps have you taken to protect the secrecy of your business’s confidential information?
A sensible way for you [...]
New Jersey’s Garden State Wine Growers Battle Mother Nature
Reporting for the Star-Ledger, writer Leslie Kwoh’s article reveals the painstaking tasks that New Jersey winery owners are having, dealing with deadly fungus in the wake of the summer’s torrential rains. Throughout the Northeast, gaining momentum in the wine industry has been difficult when facing the challenges of Mother Nature. Read the full article here: [...]
Did You Know There’s A Wine Revolution Going On?
Some would say there’s a wine revolution movement going on and it’s called Wine Library TV. Wine Library TV is a daily wine video blog. At its helm is rising star Gary Vaynerchuck. Gary has a viewership of more than 80,000 followers, aka self proclaimed “vayniacs”.
I very much enjoyed [...]
