The Alan Baker @CellarRat Wine Marketing-Media-Internet Hustler-Player-Peep Expose #1

This weekend I got to meet a really interesting person and drink some of his really great wines.  I was going to post a picture on my tumblr blog or posterous blog about it, but then I started to think that it might be fun to start blogging about the Wine Marketing-Media-Internet Hustler-Player-Peeps that I meet.  I think that all wine is great here in wine country and winery history is all fun and games, but I want to know how the wine Hustler-Player-Peeps of tomorrow are making names for themselves using Marketing-Media-Internet skills.

So, leave the fruits and the spices alone, it’s Dr. Horowitz on the…

Alan Baker brought his radio production skills to wine country from Minnesota.  Instead of going to UCD to become a winemaker he became a cellar rat, started blogging at CellarRat.org, got a job at Crushpad and spearheaded CrushNet (some of the best winemaking video resources, EVER), moved to Healdsburg, has made great Pinot and Syrah, and continues to podcast and do social media work for Arista Winery (and probably others).

Thanks @CellarRat for the great tasting.  It was great to hear your story and to get to try 2009 Pinot for the first time!

Hopefully these Wine Marketing-Media-Internet Hustler-Player-Peep breakdowns help show students and others how people are moving and shaking in the wine industry.  I’ll try to get more technical details on what people like Alan are doing in the future!