I have a plan! For those of you who are new here, I’m embarking on a semi-crazy summer-of-Covid adventure to the West Coast and back. My new and significantly improved plan has two exciting changes…

For those of you not in the wine world, workwiths are essentially forced day-long blind dates where you are expected to take a supplier representative from a winery or producer around with you to all your best accounts so they can present their wines and hopefully (fingers crossed) make some sales so they can go home happy.

Today I embark on a new journey — I just signed an offer letter for a six week temporary harvest intern position at a winery in Napa! Truth be told, I’m terrified.

We are passionate about all things that we do in love and in life and everywhere in between. We work hard, play hard, love hard, and challenge ourselves every day in ways that are often unexpected.

Here’s how to handle the trials and tribulations of wine sales rep-dom (aka how not to cry in your car during your first weeks on the job). Step 1: Suck it up, buttercup.

Screw caps are great for so many reasons and these days are definitely not an indicator of bad or even cheap wine. Don’t be surprised next time you’re in a wine shop and you see a 30-plus dollar bottle of wine with a screw cap on the shelf!

Luckily, a new era has begun. A time when rosé wine can be enjoyed not just by fancy bougie women sitting poolside in the Hamptons with their teacup-sized puppy beside them, but year round by average Joes, bros, and even with Thanksgiving dinner.

‘Rona sucks. We know this. We’ve lived this strange new life for a few weeks now and it has been quite the opposite of fun. I’ve realized though that there are some very specific people that are absolutely thriving during this time, or who at least are getting some modicum of satisfaction from these unprecedented times.