Posted on August 31, 2011 by Bill Skrapits
Over the weekend I had a perfectly refreshing Vinho Verde. It was a perfect heat buster wine for a blistering August day in Texas. I got to thinking about this wine, where it comes from and how it came about in the first place. It is a unique style of wine…
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Posted on September 7, 2011 by Bill Skrapits
After a great career as a helicopter pilot in the Army, June Ritterbusch landed in Salado, Texas. Upon evaluating the market and the busy tourist industry that Salado commands, she set her sight on becoming a winery owner in 2003. She purchased land in 2004 and planted a vineyard in…
Posted on September 26, 2011 by Bill Skrapits
After many books, articles, classes, and consultations about winery ownership and how to build your own winery, the one important topic I find missing, time and time again, is addressing the WHY. By that I mean, WHY do you want to own a winery? There are all sorts of businesses…
Posted on October 10, 2011 by Bill Skrapits
As a winery in The Other 46, how do you make the best quality wine consistently year after year? By that I mean, let’s look at Bordeaux. The wineries in the Bordeaux region know how to make Bordeaux wine because they have had hundreds of years to perfect the process. The same…
Posted on October 20, 2011 by Bill Skrapits
In my previous blog, Accelerate the Style and Quality of Your Wine Exponentially , we talked about The Other 46 having relatively very few years to gather and review historical methods and processes to pass down through the generations, but that there was an alternative to making just one wine annually from each lot…
Posted on November 11, 2011 by Bill Skrapits
I hear this question from new winemakers and wineries of The Other 46: wine style
What is the wine style for my region or AVA?
That includes grapes, but also what kind of wine should they make. From a high level there are two primary styles of wine: Old World and New…
Posted on November 29, 2011 by Bill Skrapits
It’s the holiday season! Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday,and parties galore. Whether you celebrate Hannukah, Christmas or Kwanzaa…they are all coming up soon. That got me to wondering…do wineries and tasting rooms actually have an increase in traffic and direct sales between Thanksgiving and New Years Day? If your wine…
Posted on December 15, 2011 by Bill Skrapits
Hello Everyone and Happy Holidays! Today, I thought we would look back at the blog posts that generated the most discussion in 2011. I always post my blogs to a few wine groups in Linked In as well, so much of the action is often there. Read more comments there.
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Posted on January 31, 2012 by Bill Skrapits
I just returned from Colorado where I attended VinCO. The Colorado Association for Viticulture and Enology (CAVE), Colorado Wine Industry Development Board (CWIDB) and Western Colorado Horticulture Society (WCHS) put on this conference focusing on grape growing, winemaking, and issues pertinent to the business and marketing side of the fruit and wine…
Posted on February 17, 2012 by Bill Skrapits
In Part 1 of Three Ways to Produce Positive ROI in Half the Time or Less, we discussed the traditional method for building a winery and vineyard from scratch and reviewed cash flow from year 1 through year 10. We saw that, if starting from scratch and planting a vineyard, making…