Posts Tagged ‘tasting’

Wine tasting in Napa and a staff revolt: How a progressive powerhouse went kaput

As the liberal group Democracy for America approached insolvency following the midterm elections, staffers faced a related problem: their CEO, Yvette Simpson, was on vacation at a vineyard in California. Weeks earlier Simpson had told two members of the development team that $320,000 needed to be raised for DFA to make it through the year, […]

Space-aged wine returning to earth for expert tasting

Twelve bottles of Bordeaux wine are heading back down to Earth after orbiting the world in the name of science. SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule complete with its precious cargo will aim for a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico late on Wednesday. But none of the bottles will be opened until the end of February. […]

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