Welcome to the August Briggs Blog
Welcome to the August Briggs Blog
June 30, 2008
We all know what $4+ per gallon gasoline is doing to our personal budgets, but there are ways to potentially find hidden cash in normal expenditures that can keep you enjoying fine wines...
June 18, 2008
NASCAR is back in wine country this week at Infineon Raceway, one of the few road races they hold each year. Many of the winery's fans also know we ourselves are fans of Jeff Gordon, one of the all-time great NASCAR drivers...
June 13, 2008
I read an article this week in USA Today (6/12 edition) where the Nielsen company estimated that 30% of consumer packaged goods were downsized over the past year...
June 10, 2008
I went over to check on our favorite vine at the Luvisi 1908 vineyard this morning...
June 6, 2008
The Overland Railway (see previous blog entry) saga continues – the old steam locomotives and some remaining cars once again sat in storage until the late 1960s, when a man by the name of Robert Maxfield noticed in the Oakland Tribune that two of the locomotives were for sale. Maxfield acted quickly and acquired the engines and three passenger cars. His brainstorm was to build a rail attraction in Calistoga...
June 5, 2008
One of the featured attractions in downtown Calistoga, on Lincoln Ave., is our famous restored railroad depot and rail cars. Today these house shops and restaurants, including one of our favorite wine shops in the valley, the Calistoga Wine Stop. But there’s a bit more railroad history in Calistoga, and it centers around Mt. Washington...
June 3, 2008
Did you know that we have our very own majestic "mountains," right here in the city of Calistoga?...
