I love Thanksgiving.  What can be better than a holiday whose focus is on a great feast and giving thanks?  We’ve had a great year at The Wine Cache and I’m thankful for having great customers and a great staff.  Thanks again to everyone who has supported us!

My friend Luke went to Napa on his honeymoon and couldn’t stop talking about the tour he had at Grgich Hills Winery.  While on the tour, one of the workers came by and offered the group some cherry tomatoes.  Luke said the cherry tomatoes were the most flavorful and fresh he had ever had.   The [...]

I’m always amazed at the creativity and passion people put into their Halloween costumes.  At one of my consulting projects a few years back, the entire company, over 500 people, dressed up in costume.   Each department had a theme and the entire building was decorated.  It did get out of hand one year when the [...]

The presidential election is only a few weeks out and the campaigning is heating up.  The number of political ads on TV seems to be at an all time high and our mailbox is stuffed with political fliers every day.  I’d like to ignore some of it, but it’s important that we all learn the [...]

Another crazy week in the financial markets, marked by an amazing gain in the market on Monday after last week’s incredible sell-off.  I suspect we haven’t seen the last of the market gyrations.  It’s difficult to look at 401k statements, but I’m confident that the American marketplace will continue to be a engine for growth [...]

I recorded the national news tonight so I could watch it after the kids went to bed.  Normally, I’d like to relax with something from the Discovery Channel or a movie my wife picked out.  But, given these times, I feel I need to pay attention to the markets and understand what is going on [...]

We hope everyone had a great Labor Day, and our thoughts go out to all those who weathered Gustav and are going to need to prepare for tropical storms Hanna, Ike and Josephine.

Most people see Labor Day as the symbolic end of summer.  With the weather we’ve been having recently it certainly does not feel [...]

This week we are looking at some wines from August Briggs.

August Briggs Winery is a small, family-owned Napa Valley winery in Calistoga, California. Joe and Sally Briggs make small lots of Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Petite Sirah and Zinfandel, all sourced from Napa and Sonoma.

As hot as it has been this summer, we can’t forget that there are parts of the world where it is much colder right now, and I’m not just talking about the North and South Poles.  The seasons in the Southern Hemisphere are the opposite of ours so towns in Australia, New Zealand, South America [...]

It is very easy to become a creature of one’s habits.  It’s convenient and comfortable to eat at the same places, do the same weekend activities, and of course, drink the same wines.  A couple years ago a good friend of mine had started dating a new girlfriend and decided to spend the summer doing [...]