Thanks to everyone who joined us for our Silicon Valley WinePod celebration at Joseph George Wines in San Jose, California. We had a great crowd and enjoyed meeting everyone.
We poured barrel samples from the WinePod and also tasted wines made from the same vineyard sources as ours such as Tandem Pinot Noir and Rombauer Chardonnay.
We [...]
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 [...]
If you love wine and want to learn more about winemaking, then join us this September and learn how wine enthusiasts are making their own great wine at home with the WinePod personal winery. We’re hosting Winemaking for Wine Enthusiasts at the Silver Creek Valley Country Club in San Jose, California. And, you don’t have [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday, I found out that we were unable to purchase fruit from a very well known vineyard in Oakville (Napa). That’s unfortunate, because I was very excited about these grapes—it’s the kind of fruit that makes you daydream of friends begging for just one bottle of that fantastic wine you made yourself.
As some of you [...]
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 WinePod will be appearing live at San Francisco’s popular Pinot Days held at Fort Mason on Sunday, June 29th from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Come see the WinePod in action and meet the ProVina team led by Greg Snell, co-founder and CEO. Get your first look at how the WinePod works and let [...]
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 [...]
Last week we did something very unique at WinePod. We hosted the world’s first virtual winemaking class with our Club Ferment, a group of dedicated individuals who come together to create great wine. Together with twelve aspiring winemakers and their WinePods, our team embarked on a synchronized, guided wine fermentation using the same Cabernet grapes [...]
WELCOME TO WINEPODDER.
At 4 ft. tall and taking up less than 4 sq. ft. of space, the WinePod is a self–contained, computer–controlled winemaking system that gives everyone the ability to participate in small lot, handcrafted winemaking. WinePod integrates fermentation, pressing and ageing in one unit that’s so easy to use anyone can make great wine [...]