Wine on Deck featured in the Barnstable Patriot

Wine on Deck is beginning to get some press in the local news!  Here, Barnstable Patriot staff writer J. James Joiner mentions our Wine Wings in his posting "Mind Your Neighbor's Business".   We're #7.

Thanks James, thanks Barnstable, and thanks to all who visited our website today and placed orders for Wine on Deck's Wine Wings.

-isaac

BECC conference Chooses Wine Wings for Thank-You Gifts

Last week's Behavior, Energy, & Climate Change Conference in Sacramento, CA, was a chance for the movers and shakers of the U.S. policy, environmental, and business communities to get together and talk shop.  Speakers and panelists included Directors of national and state-level government agencies, CEOs of green corporations and energy providers, and other luminaries.  One common thread among them all?  They all received engraved Wine Wings as thank-you gifts!

Thanksgiving Last Minute Special!!!

Still looking for a gift to give your Thanksgiving dinner host?  How about a bottle of Bordeaux and a hand-made Wine Wing from Wine on Deck?  Forty bucks gets you a one-of-a-kind gift and FREE OVERNIGHT SHIPPING from Federal Express.  Order by Wednesday, November 24, at 12:00pm Eastern, and your Wine Wing will be shipped to any address in the lower 48 by Turkey Day.

Are we there yet? Wine on Deck goes to market

Wine on Deck was founded on the same day we moved into our industrial space in Allston, MA, on June 1st, 2010.  Since then, many members of the Wine on Deck team have been frustrated by my (Isaac D. Van Wesep, the Founder) reluctance to do any serious marketing until we perfect our product line. 

Laser & Mill...so happy together?

A real cherry...

Wine on Deck's Wine Wings come in two styles: "Original" and "Engraved".  Our engraved Wine Wings are laser-etched by Dave LaPlante of Andover, MA.  Laser engraving is a popular way to customize both hand-made items such as our Wine Wings, and factory-produced mass market items.  One reason for the popularity is the laser's incredible resolution: it can etch into wood detail down to 1/1000th of an inch.  But laser engraving is expensive - that laser eventually needs to be replaced - and laser engravers themselves start at around $15 thousand each, and quickly rise to over $100k.

Check out our founder's personal blog

Wine on Deck's founder has a personal blog where he records his ongoing adventures in fine woodworking.  Visit it at http://idvwdesign.blogspot.com/

Isaac shares his trials, his successes, and his discoveries.  Interesting reading for the budding woodworker, or for anybody curious about what woodworkers spend their days agonizing over!

Sustainable business & profitable business: hand-in-hand?

 My previous post here at the Wine on Deck blog was all about the challenge of doing business in a "sustainable" manner within our current global marketplace.  Today's U.S. MBA graduates and entrepreneurs (I count myself among them) are all on board, and they think it can be done.  But can it? 

I posit that it's not at all easy to make a profit with a "zero footprint" business model.  Especially when the rest of the players in the global marketplace don't think it's important to consider the environment and nearby populations when competing for market share.

Sustainability: Proximate vs. Ultimate Costs

The world economy is in the midst of wrenching change.  Increasingly convincing science tells us the human population - and our industrial growth - are approaching the limit of what Planet Earth can provide.  At the same time, our markets - the drivers of wealth, health, freedom, and personal achievement - demand that we act upon the challenges we face now, not in the future.  It's this tension that underlies many of the challenges in transitioning to a "sustainable" economy, whatever that means.

New Blog - No Posts!

Wine on Deck Founder Isaac D. Van Wesep & his Daughter, Eden

Well, I'm totally satisfied with Wine on Deck's new blog.  I built it using Softpress's Freeway 5.5 Pro Web design software, which worked perfectly with Blogger's platform.  It's a big improvement over my previous blogging platform, which was Apple's iWeb.  My one gripe is that I was unable to transfer any of the old posts from the iWeb blog to the new blog.  I know this is typical of Apples' products, or at least it was in the past.  recently Apple has made its software more compatible with the rest of the world, but for some reason iWeb is a completely isolated bit of software.  Not only can one not access the HTML behind an iWeb site, but most of iWeb's functionality is Apple's, not the universal tools employed by nearly everyone else.

Wine on Deck helps Celebrate 25 Years at the East Coast Grill

A couple of years after moving to Boston after college, I quit my genetics research position at MIT’s Whitehead Institute, started a band, and got a job shucking oysters at the East Coast Grill (ECG) in Cambridge, MA.  I knew something was right when i discovered that the ECG was owned by Chris Schlesinger, author of “The Thrill of the Grill”, a seminal cookbook.  The Thrill of the Grill also happened to be my favorite cookbook as a teenager, when one of my chores was to cook dinner for the family Monday-Friday.