Good Grape Wine Company

May 29 2007

The Center of the Wine Universe This Week

San Francisco is on a fault line and this week it’s also going to be the epicenter of a seismic change happening in the wine world—the convergence of wine and technological bits and bytes into the phenomena called Wine 2.0.

Credit the guys at Radcru.com for hosting the 2nd networking party for wine and wine-related technology companies.  Information found here.

The Wine 2.0 networking event is happening this Friday at Club Sportiva in San Francisco and the line-up of companies and attendee’s is stacked and a veritable list of who is who. 

Queue up AC/DC for a little lyrical inspiration, too:

Who made who, who made you?
Who made who, ain’t nobody told you?
Who made who, who made you?
If you made them and they made you
Who picked up the bill, who? And who made who?

It might take me a glass or three to fully decode AC/DC, but I think what they are saying is that collaboration is important—a hallmark of Wine 2.0 companies.  So, I would expect to see strategic alliances, partnering and the like later this summer, as a result of the connections made at this event.

I had the opportunity to attend the first function in November of last year, and it was a lot of fun—by far the most engaging networking event that I’ve ever attended.  It also helps that virtually everybody in the wine industry is a “glass half full” kind of person with a keen interest in the subject matter of their profession, attributes that are definitely not shared in other industries. 

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make this event, but about 200 others will be there quaffing and being convivial.  Check out this link for a complete list of participating companies, wineries and sponsors.  Cool companies and/or people in attendance that I can personally vouch for include:

Inertia Beverage Group
Boutique Wine Cellar
Appellation America
WineQ
Calwineries
Crushpad
VinoAmigo
Cameron Hughes
Medlock Ames
Halleck Vineyards
Sapid
Stormhoek
Grapethinking.com
Vinography.com
Winecast.net
Pinotblogger.com
Wark Communications

I wish more wine bloggers were going to be in attendance in order to do the full-on “live blogging” dorkiness, but I suppose it’s hard to write with a glass of wine in one hand, business cards clenched in another whilst balancing a plate of knoshes.  If you’re in the Bay Area, you can still RSVP here.

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