One of my long time passions – among the top three – is fly fishing for trout, but I seldom get the chance to wet a line lately. Tonight was the exception. There is a nice stretch of the Ramapo River about 7 miles Northwest of my house that is float stocked by the local chapter [...]
The Rad Grapes portfolio and our wines are relatively unknown to most wine drinkers, but when are consumers are able to taste our wines, they are very impressed and tend to buy the wines. In order to give fans of our more chances to try new wines, I am going to do my best to let [...]
I’ve got to tell ya…our property is about 2/3 of an acre and I spent all weekend doing yard work: mowing the lawn; trimming branches and bushes; raking out mulch beds; running to the recycling center to dump the stuff off….and I’m bushed. Yeah there are many suburbanites like myself that maintain their own piece of [...]
Let me start of by saying that Rose can be rather bland and boring. The most popular Roses in the world are from the Provence and even though there are some very good Roses from Provence, my experience has been that the majority of them are very light and seem to last on the palate a [...]
I have not been blogging for long, but I have noticed that I was getting more spam comments than real comments. Up until now, anyone who wanted to post a comment on Stoned Wino had to register, because I thought that would eliminate spam. It hasn’t eliminated spam and I feel it has detracted people from [...]
Almost everyone I talk to is in awe and jealous of the fact that I am in the wine business. I count my blessings for the fact that I was smart enough to pursue a career in something I love to do, but no matter what your passion and what business you are in, sometimes it [...]
I guess you can say I am catching up on posting, given the lack of posting for close to a month. It has been a yucky weekend and I’ve had more face time with my laptop than usual, so…
We did have some wines from Argentina in the Rad Grapes portfolio a few years back, but that [...]
I am in the process of learning how Google Adsense works, so if you stumble onto the blog and it looks kind of funny, it is just me dealing with a little bit of a learning curve figuring out how to be able to offer ad placement on the blog, where to place the ads, what [...]
Rad Grapes had some really good quality Cavas for a while, but for a number of reasons it did not work out with that particular winery in the long run. Well, it took some time and I did get help. It is not easy finding great wines at value prices…it takes a lot of wine tasting [...]
It’s not like my life is not busy enough or that I have all this extra time after working 12 hours a day on selling wine and developing business for Rad Grapes on top of family obligations…no, that’s not it. I just had another good business idea and decided to go ahead and make it happen. [...]