by Mike Dunne | Jan 25, 2023 | Blog
I am not on Twitter, but if I were, these are tweets I would have sent from today’s first series of seminars at the 29th Unified Wine & Grape Symposium, the nation’s largest wine-related trade show, expected to draw about 12,000 registrants and 875 exhibitors to...
by Mike Dunne | Jan 22, 2023 | Blog
This exercise should end my recent preoccupation with ChatGPT, the hugely popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) program meant principally for customer-service dialogue but raising concerns that it also could be exploited to create unoriginal and uncredited term papers,...
by Mike Dunne | Jan 21, 2023 | Blog
Just back from the frozen hamlet of Cloverdale in northern Sonoma County, where the Citrus Fairgrounds this past week played host to the 2023 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. The Chronicle is the nation’s largest wine competition, this year drawing some 5500...
by Mike Dunne | Jan 16, 2023 | Blog
Sacramento’s hospitality trade is to get a shot of adrenaline, personality and money next week when an anticipated 12,000 persons roll into town for the 29th Unified Grape & Wine Symposium. The nation’s largest wine conference, Unified will be staged mostly at the...
by Mike Dunne | Dec 28, 2022 | Blog
Brothers Tyler and Trevor Grace make wine at their family’s Lewis Grace Winery in the Apple Hill district just outside Placerville in El Dorado County. They harvest grapes from the same estate vineyard. They make wine side by side in the same cellar. They sometimes...