Purple Stains: scenes from Wine 2.0

Wine 2.0 is, apparently, the confluence of wine and technology that results in purple teeth. Without a whole lot of fanfare, I hereby offer photos from last night’s Wine 2.0 Spring Fling at Crushpad in San Francisco. Many thanks to Cornelius Geary and Jeff Playter of Rad-Cru for hosting what many folks felt was a very successful evening.

Before the human onslaught, a pre-wine moment: Say hello to WineQ.com‘s Marshall Sontag & Brittany Dean, and Wine Biz Radio‘s Randy Hall.

That tall fella is Jeff Stai (a.k.a. El Jefe) of Twisted Oak Winery. To his left are Randy Hall and Patrick Llerena (a.k.a. Oenophilus) of Iridesse Wines. That’s yours truly on the left, blinded by the light, but already purply-teethed. Go figure.

El Jefe, flanked by those ubiquitous rubber chickens, pours his popular Syrah for a couple of the wine industry guys. Note the Twister mat as table cover.

Philip James of Snooth.com flew in from Manhattan for his first Wine 2.0 experience, and for good reason: the networking potential on this night made for an incredible blur of flying business cards.

That’s me and Cameron Hughes. His wines exhibited enormous purple-stain potential, especially Number 69, which *ahem* showed good legs.

~winehiker

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4 Responses to “Purple Stains: scenes from Wine 2.0”

Marshall Sontag
April 25th, 2008 16:39
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It was a blast, Russ! We really enjoyed hanging out with all of you. Thanks for sharing good things about us with all those potential wineries!
Rebecca
April 25th, 2008 22:10
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Oh how I would have loved to have been there, but web 2.0 is far too exhausting in person and I needed my rest.
Brittany Dean
April 26th, 2008 22:10
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As always, Russ, it was a pleasure to hang out with you again in person, purple-y teeth and all! And I just have to say again, I really loved Randy’s shirt – he definitely wore it well
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