Personal Wine Blog

Finding the perfect gift can be a very difficult task. If someone on your gift list is a wine drinker, you can rest easy - your task just got a lot simpler.

Giving just the right gift can be really, really hard.

Sure, it’s not “create world peace” hard, but it’s difficult nonetheless. What you give and how you give it really matters. What’s more, choosing the right gift has the potential to make or break a friendship or romantic relationship.

National Wine Day is May 25th. That’s not to be confused with National Drink Wine Day, which is February 18th. Whether that means you’re just supposed to stare at a wine bottle in wonder on May 25, but not actually drink it, remains to be seen. Either way, it’s a day to celebrate the undeniable impact that wine has had on our culture, especially in recent years.

It’s graduation season again. Young adults are getting ready to pour out into the world and into the workforce to try to make a name for themselves.

Graduation has a way of bringing out all the feelings. It’s great to start on a new phase of life, but it’s also difficult to leave the old one behind. It’s interesting to meet new people, but it’s challenging to not see close friends all the time. You might be happy that you’re finally exiting the isolated world of your college (or city, even), but sad that you’re not going to have that comfort and security that your campus provided for years.

So what do you do? How do you bridge the gap between the old world and the new one?

We outline seven ways to celebrate graduation that can make it awesome and also help you manage the transition from one part of life to the next.

A wise person once cautioned people to be nice to their administrative assistants, saying, “She’s the least paid and still knows more about what’s going on than anyone else.”

When you hear the words “spring cleaning,” do you immediately experience a vivid flashback of your mom dragging you into your room and forcing you to try on all of last summer’s clothes to see what fit? And then spending what felt like hours trying on clothing items that were no longer in style (bike shorts, skorts, oh my!), and begging your mom to buy you new clothes even if you really hadn’t outgrown last year’s?

April showers might bring May flowers, but let’s face it, grey days can also leave you feeling kinda glum.

But cheer up, buttercup! We have some ideas for you to get the most out of those grey days. Whether you brave the weather and venture outside, or stay toasty warm inside your humble abode, here are some ways to have fun without the sun, and things to do even if skies are grey.

“Thanksgiving is all about getting your entire dysfunctional family under the same roof and hoping the police don’t get called.”

That quote may have been said by an anonymous person, but it describes what so many of us feel: that as delicious as the food is, sometimes the company overshadows the great meal. So what are people to do? Drink.

There are celebrations and then there are celebrations. When your company has something really huge and really good happen to it, you want to celebrate. And the only way to do that right is with wine.

If you own a business, you know that marketing it can be really challenging. How do you set yourself apart from all of the other businesses out there without spending a fortune on tactics that don’t work?