Information and Online Resources

Information & Links

We feel strongly about sharing information that has been useful to us. We have links to PDFs of articles that we've written over the years that help provide insight into the wine industry and other sites. These sites have proved invaluable in one way or another.

Rackings
Information, explanations, how-to's, and advice

• Brief Overview of the US Wine Industry by Paul Tincknell
  In Adobe's Acrobat PDF format. (File name: wineindustryoverview.pdf; file size: 1.61 MB.)
• Programs, Software, & Web Services T&T Use to Increase Productivity
• Building Brand Equity in the Wine Industry by Brandon Westling, M.B.A.
  In Adobe's Acrobat PDF format. (File name: brandequity.pdf; file size: 66.5 KB.)
• Marketing 101 by Brandon Westling, M.B.A.
  In Adobe's Acrobat PDF format. (File name: winemarketing101.pdf; file size: 50 KB.)
• Why you might have gotten spam from tincknell.com or marketingwine.com

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Wine Industry

• WineAmerica
  Formerly known as the American Vintners Association; a national association of American vintners and wineries.
• Wine Institute and WineLaw
  An excellent information source on wine industry issues.
• Family Winemakers of California
  Promotes the rights and interests of all members to freely produce, market and sell their products.
• Free the Grapes!
  Coalition of consumers and winemakers promoting interstate direct shipping.
• Specialty Wine Retailers Association
  An industry association formed to encourage states to create a borderless national wine marketplace that offers consumers more choice, lower pricing and more convenience, and offers states increased tax revenues.
• Wine Market Council and WineAnswers.com
  An industry organization promoting wine to consumers, with WineAnswers.com as a resource for consumers about wine.
• Women for WineSense
  The premier worldwide grassroots organization for women interested in wine.
• ZAP (Zinfandel Advocates and Producers)
  An organization celebrating zinfandel.
• Consorzio Cal-Italia
  An organization of winemakers promoting the grapes and wine styles of Italy ... but made in the USA.
• RAP (Rosé Avengers and Producers)
  An organization celebrating traditional-styled pink wines.
• Wine Library Associates of Sonoma County
  The Wine Library Associates is a nonprofit group that supports the Wine Library of Sonoma County by raising funds, sponsoring events, and providing volunteers. The Sonoma County Wine Library is a special collection comprising of 5,000 books on wine and related subjects, subscriptions, and backfiles to more than 80 wine-related periodicals. The Wine Library is located inside of the Healdsburg Library.
• National Association of Beverage Importers, Inc.
  The National Association of Beverage Importers is a national trade association that represents the interests of beer, wine, and spirit importers at state and federal levels.
• Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America
  WSWA members represent over 90 percent of the wines and spirits sold at wholesale in the United States.
• Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, US Department of the Treasury
  Like it or not, this is the branch of government that makes federal policy on wine industry issues.
• State of California's Department of Alcohol Beverage Control
  Like it or not, this is the government branch in California that makes policy on wine industry issues.

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Business and Technical Reference

• Business Owner's Toolkit
  An insightful resource on business and marketing plans.
• Fight Spam on the Internet!
  Lots of information and resources about fighting spam.
• Gibson Research Corporation
  A superb site on internet security and privacy.
• MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System)
  But please do not add our domain names to their lists!
• Pacific Online
  Our website host and email provider.
• SamSpade.org
  Online tools to help you find the true source of the unwanted email.
• Small Business Administration
• The World Wide Web Consortium
  The ruling organization on the languages of websites.
• Webmaster's Reference Library

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Worthy Causes

• AlGore.com and ClimateCrisis.org (www.algore.com and www.climatecrisis.org)
  The time to tackle the climate crisis of global warming is NOW. Visit these websites to learn more about the issues, and to find out what you can do now, and how you can help locally, nationally, and globally. (Have a green business that is interested in the wine industry? Contact - we might be able to help.
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Amnesty International
• Arya Tara School
  The flagship project of the Nuns' Welfare Foundation, is a unique institution providing high-quality, secular education alongside traditional Buddhist training for nuns. Education is provided free of cost in the hope that our students, in turn, will be equipped to act on their vows of compassionate in practical ways: as teachers, health care workers and community leaders.
• Defective by Design
  Don't buy music, movies, and playback equipment made defective by design by the entertainment companies. Support FAIR USE rights.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
  A vital organization that monitors privacy issues in technology and the internet, as well as mobilizing resources to protect privacy and Constitutional rights.
• Friends of Healdsburg Library
  An organization that helps create interest in, and hosts annual events and activities to raise funds for the local library.
• Greenpeace
• Healdsburg Jazz Festival
  A non-profit organization that celebrates the jazz art form among Healdsburg's lush vineyards and in intimate venues. An annual festival in early June showcases legends, names, and rising stars from throughout the jazz community.
• Network for Good
  Network for Good is a nonprofit organization dedicated to using the internet to help people get more involved in their communities - from volunteering and donating money, to speaking out on issues you care about.
• Rainforest Action Network
• Save Darfur
  It's up to the citizens of the U.S. to make our leaders act to stop the genocide in Darfur. 300,000 to 400,000 have already died, and 2.5 million have been forced out of their homes. We must make it stop.
• We Can Solve The Climate Crisis
  A nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. The goal of the Alliance is to build a movement that creates the political will to solve the climate crisis.

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Of Interest

We would like to introduce some of the fun businesses and websites we have come to enjoy. While these are not the fanciest or most exciting websites, the people behind them and the enjoyment they provide are what draws us to them:

• City of Healdsburg, California, USA and Healdsburg Community Information
  Our hometown.
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's 01.01.01
  A technology exhibition on the web (please note that you need both Macromedia's Flash and Apple's QuickTime to view this outstanding and provocative web exhibition.

Last Update: 05/17/10