WinePodder of the Month: Eric Porres
I make my home in: New York and Connecticut
A little about me: A little over two years ago I started a wine tasting group in NY called New York Grapes as a way to learn more about wine and my friends and colleagues.
To be eligible in the group you have [...]
Ask any winemaker—they’ll tell you that if you are going to make excellent wine, you must start with excellent grapes. That’s why we started very early this year in choosing our 2008 vineyard selections for the grapes we’ll be offering through WinePod.
Contact Johanna Hirt at (408) 722-7313 or johanna.hirt@winepod.net for current pricing on grapes. [...]
The WinePod was recently nominated for Vator.tv and Wine 2.0’s Wine Tech Contest, which features the hottest wine-related ideas, technology and companies in the U.S. Help us get to the top of the list by going to Vator.tv and searching for “WinePod” to see our video interview. Or, just click here.
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Last week, our Provina sales team made the 5-hour flight to the East Coast and New York City’s Webster Hall, where we showcased the WinePod personal winery at Wine 2.0 2008. The crowd was large—around 1,100 attendees who came to see the latest in wine technology . . . but probably more likely, came to [...]
The WinePod will make its New York City debut on September 18th at Wine 2.0, an annual event that showcases how technology and the web are changing the way wine is made, marketed and sold.
With the WinePod in the Big Apple, we’re planning the ultimate social experiment by organizing the largest simultaneous personal wine ferment [...]
The approach of harvest time signals the beginning of the indoor social season. Why not make your next party a unique one and share the joy of making wine with your friends and family? If you haven’t yet made your WinePod purchase, consider a joint acquisition and divide up the fun.
NY Grapes of New York [...]
The WinePod personal winery and founder Greg Snell were recently featured on NBC’s award-winning technology news show, Tech Now. Host Scott Budman made the trip to our offices in Silicon Valley to check out the WinePod and then headed over to Cypress Semiconductor to speak with Cypress CEO (and WinePod investor) T.J. Rodgers. T.J. also [...]
We’re pretty excited to have Wired Magazine blogger, Chris Null, taking the plunge into making wine with WinePod. What’s even better is that Chris is going to be detailing his experience in a series on the Wired blog network, giving everyone first-hand insight into the whole process.
Chris is a self-proclaimed “total oenology geek,” who also [...]
Meet Zach and Cliff, owners of the Cava Wine Bar in Capitola, Calif., and our newest WinePodders. These two are wine enthusiasts of the kind we like: fun, laid-back . . . a couple of interesting guys who really know how to have a good time with a glass of wine.
Zach and Cliff have been [...]
The other day, a fellow WinePodder commented to me that they wanted to practice “non-interventionist” winemaking as much as possible.
Non-interventionist winemaking is a branch of “natural winemaking.” The non-interventionist winemaker in the extreme does not intervene in the winemaking process and lets the wine make itself—good, bad or indifferent.
From this definition, my first winemaking [...]