New York City is the most competitive fine wine market in the US. If New York City is a concrete jungle, Manhattan is the heart of its dense and tangled thicket.
How We Self-Care: Tips from the Wine Community
A few weeks ago I posted what I thought was a random, open question on Facebook. It was a Saturday morning and I simply asked, “So, what are you doing today for self-care?”
Harvest is a Workout! Here’s 5 Stretches to Keep You Limber
Loading and unloading boxes. Filling and emptying tanks. Scaling catwalks. Dragging hoses.
And shoveling literally TONS of grape skins and seeds Are you sore yet? Maybe a little stiff? A little worse for the wear? << click image to read more >>
My “Wellness Hack” for Smoothing Out the Frazzles
September!
There’s just nothing like it, particularly for those of us experiencing the intensity and rigor of harvest. In the wine growing and winemaking worlds of the northern hemisphere, this is your busy season and the season that demands inventive “wellness hacks,” as Beck et al so helpfully outlined last week.
The Six-Pack Gut Check to Surviving Harvest
It’s that time when the Northern Hemisphere’s vineyard workers, cellar hands, winemakers, and grape growers gear up to capture another year of bounty. <<click on image to read more>>
Secret Weapons for Maintaining Wellness in the Wine Industry
Last week, Beck and I had the tremendous pleasure to join Hannah Wallace (who we’ve featured previously in the Tribe) and Katherine Cole in at the OPB public broadcasting studios in Portland, Oregon. <<click image to read more>>
What Happens at TEXSOM does NOT Stay at TEXSOM
Such was the opening decree from Master Sommelier Devon Broglie before the opening tasting session of this year’s TEXSOM conference—a firm but friendly reminder to those in attendance to be aware of their behavior and the increasing scrutiny we are all under.. <<Click image to read more>>
Stronger Together: Building Up the Tribe, An International Perspective
Fresh off the heels of the Bâtonnage Forum, when so many of us from all parts of the industry came together, we thought it would be interesting this week to offer an international perspective on “building up the tribe.” <<click image to read more >>
The Critical Need for Personal Commitment
Last Saturday I had the tremendous honor to offer closing comments at the first-ever Bâtonnage Forum, the sold-out, gritty, stir-the-lees conference in Napa that was convened by the indomitable Stevie Stacionis and her team.. <<click image to read more>>
3 Tactics To Help Navigate Times of Change
Change and growth are intrinsic to a healthy career trajectory.
However in a small and tight-knit industry like wine, where "success" may be judged based on technical knowledge, networks, connections and tenure, maintaining your sense of self through transition can be tough.
3 Tools To Boost Your Practice Right Now
“Practice.”
We use that word a lot when it comes to yoga and meditation and mindfulness, and here’s one of my favorite parts of it all: there are lots of ways to practice. <<click on the image to read more>>
5 Hacks to Help Your Digestion While Traveling
Life on the road with relentless days and weeks of entertainment, client hospitality and multi course meals can leave you feeling sluggish and your metabolism just plain stuck. So here are five easy hacks to help your digestion stay ahead of your schedule. <<click image to read more>>
What Are Your Triggers? More Importantly, What is Your Response?
Triggers. They’re the things that set us off, and the things that we know, probably from repeated experience, will threaten to set our days, our agendas, and our emotions off the rails. <<click image to read more>>
Where We Are At, and How You Can Help
The Food and Wine Classic in Aspen remains the pre-eminent food and wine festival in America. After 35 years, the professionalism of the event and its offerings are as honed as the finest knife edge. But this year was different. <<click image to read more>>
What Else Can We Learn from Anthony Bourdain?
We can’t not talk about it.
Bourdain, I mean.
How could he not have known how much we appreciated him?
I’ve heard that a hundred times this past week, and wondered it, myself. <<click image to read more>>
Where Do You Go When You Want to Know?
Last week I attended my first cannabis event hosed by the entrepreneurial powerhouse Marcia Gagliardi of San Francisco dining bible Tablehopper and the genius behind MyMilligram – a site offering low dose, high quality cannabis products through a non-presumptive approach. <<click image to read more>>
Why is it So Hard to Just Be?
Several years ago I volunteered in the kitchen at the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center near Muir Woods, north of San Francisco. A sign of instructions for cooks was posted that could not be missed. <<< click image to read more>>>
One Powerful Word To Reduce Your Stress
Philosophers, sages, teachers and critics have debated over translation, interpretation, and nearly every aspect of yogic philosophy, but the one thing that still unites all communities is the universal sound of Aum, or more commonly, “OM”. <<click image to read more>>
A Love Letter to Mystery and Mindfulness
“I don’t want to know everything about wine. Can we stop trying to understand it all? Let’s leave the mystery in…”
A good friend of mine, an importer in the wine industry, said that to me a few years ago and I’ve never forgotten it. <<click image to read more>>
Reduce Stress in 60 Seconds: Dial “N” for Nature
Decades of medical research, books, journals, and papers exist on the benefits of spending time in nature, the positive impacts on stress levels, and the our overall physical and mental wellbeing. <<click image to read more>>