fine

FINE FRIENDS NEWSLETTER

December 2010

Happy holidays! Think of this email as a nog, a toddy, or cracklin’ yule log to ward off winter chill with the warm digital spirit of the season.

New from FINE    Just in time to bring whiskey and wine to the holiday party

SPRING VALLEY SPRINGS FORTH

After 6 generations, a Walla Walla farming family decided to plant a few grapes and found they’d been sitting on terroir like no other. Their new site’s like no other, a surprisingly Flash-free celebration of the rich brand history of Spring Valley Vineyard

THE WHISKEY REVOLUTION

It’s not your father’s whiskey brand, or your average whiskey site. But they’re both simple, tasty, pared down, true to a bootstrapping artisan approach, and 100% organic. The revolutionary result pours out of your browser from Woodinville Whiskey

In Other FINE News

They’ve launched, hatched, or otherwise emerged from FINE minds of late:

OUT OF LEFTFIELD

They orchestrate some of the Northeast's highest profile, large-scale developments. Now their national reputation and work with clients like Harvard is on full display for owners around the world at the new online home of LeftField

BOTTLE SHOCK ‘N AWE, MOBILE DIVISION

35 years after the Paris taste test rocked the wine world comes the mobile site for what Bottle Shock movie fans know as the brand that put Napa on the worldwide map. Discerning palates can direct their smart phones to the mobile site of Chateau Montelena

ALETHEIA: AN ENRICHED BRAND

When you manage $7 Billion in assets, make sure you look the part, and do it in a way that suggests “independent thinking” and “extraordinary results”. Enter the website and print rebrand of boutique financial services firm Aletheia Research & Management

THE PASSION OF THE CABERNET

It started with a passion for Cabernet.  Watch the story unfold and culminate with another pearl in the Ste Michelle Wine Estates brand strand. And a Cabernet-inspired position atop Red Mountain for Col Solare

REVEAL YOUR RED SIDE

What’s YOUR Red Side? Everyone has one, and none more so than loyal drinkers of this stylish Washington State wine. Reveal yours on their new site and read what your fellow reds tell their side of the story of Red Diamond

Updates:

Our Contact page now lists our new Michigan office!

Shout Out: PocketNow, DISH, Tenaya Capital, PCTools

Welcome Newbies: Dyanna D. in SFO, The Nick n’ Sarah Show in the T.C. to the MI, and coming January… the rise of GUNDOLF

Read our Employ Brands partnership press release

Newsletter re-design! Hint of cobbler’s kids site to come.

We’re quite social media-ish. Click the links below to follow/fan/friend us.

COMING SOON... Accel-erated launch… Emergences… we see the Daylight… indexing cybercrime into submission… who’s your daddy now? … The Rock solidifies… 14 hands@ long last… site du soleil…

 
twitter Follow us on twitter
twitter Like us on facebook
twitter Check out our blog

FINE 1005 Sansome Street Suite 330, San Francisco CA 94111, 415.552.9300