Wine Country

I feel very lucky that this year I've been able to mix a lot of business with pleasure. Last week, for example, I got to conduct a business meeting in a limo, en route to a vineyard. WHAT?!?

My new boss, our head of sales and myself took the marketing teams for a couple of our bigger clients up to Sonoma Valley to taste some amazing wine from Nicholson Ranch. Our hour or so ride up provided ample time to lay out some strategic goals for 2010 and brainstorm some interesting ideas on how to meet them. We took a break for the tasting and tour, courtesy of a guide named Oz, and then talked more business on the ride back.

It was a wonderful way to business — one I doubt will become a regular thing, but was quite a treat this time around.

[some pics from the afternoon]