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Budbreak has come! Warm weather and longer days are here! Randy has a weak moment where he acknowledges his homebrew beer hobby has reawakened. Kaz and Randy have Abdi Humphries from Wine 2.0 in the studio to rap about the Wine 2.0 Expo taking place at the Crushpad urban winery in San Francisco on April 2nd. And all this with only minimal shuck-and-jive!

• The Brewing Network [link]
• Wine 2.0 Main Site [link]
• Wine 2.0 Expo [link]
• Crushpad Wine [link]

 

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Kaz is back! He’s home from Loreto Bay, and he brought the luck of the Irish to his favorite podcast producer. Both Kaz and Randy play host to Lewis Purdue, investigative reporter of the wine industry and author of 20 books, most of them thrillers(!) The conversation ranges, but one thing is for certain: Wine Biz Radio is back and it’s as raw as ever!

• Lew’s Main Website [link]
• Wine Industry Insight [link]

 

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Randy has Agent Red as his co-pilot this fine week. Together, they have Josie Gay, executive director of the Heart of Sonoma Valley Association come in to talk about the imminent Savor Sonoma event (March 21 & 22). Then our intrepid hosts rap about the economy, then wrap up talking about this weekend’s Twitter Taste Live event!

• The Wine Spies [link]
• Savor Sonoma event [link]
• Twitter Taste Live this weekend [link]

 

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Kaz is away and Tom Wark warms his chair as Randy’s co-host. Together, they welcome Kathryn Newell of Panache Partners LLC, a coffee table book publisher who are in the final stages of publishing a book about Sonoma County wineries. Then there is discussion of the American Wine Blog Award nominees (the winners have since been announced!) and recent entries in Tom’s blog, and Paul Mabray of VinTank talks gives more previews of their social media report due out next week.

It’s stuffed full of interesting industry players, get listening already!

• Panache’s “Spectacular Wineries” series web site [link]
• M.J. Wickham, photographer for the Spectacular Wineries series [link]
• Panache Partners on Facebook [link]
• American Wine Blog Award Finalists [link]
• American Wine Blog Award WINNERS! [link]
• World of Pinot Noir [link]
• Tom’s “Bitch In The Black Dress” [link]
• The OWC to take over the AWBA [link]
• 2009 Wine Bloggers Conference [link]
• VinTank [link]
• Cruvee’s announcements regarding Scrugy [link]
• Cruvee’s announcement regarding James Jory as VP of Technology [link]
• Scrugy [link]