How’d Diana Get Into Wine?!

Midwest native, Aotearoa NZ resident, super wine nerd, and Responsible Hedonist’s winemaker!

We really appreciate your support! We want to share as much with you as possible about  building Responsible Hedonist. But, we also want to be sure we’re answering what you want to know. So, what’s on your mind? What are the nitty gritty questions you’ve got for us? What wine mysteries can we solve?  Drop…

We started the application process for our alcohol license back in February thinking it would only take a couple of months, based on our in-depth research and conversations.  Turns out, that wasn’t quite the way things worked out.  Despite not owning a winery or planning to sell our wine through a physical tasting room, we…

Diana finished vintage this week, but was wonderfully exhausted by the experience 🥰😴🥰 Frank has been busy with work work and getting Diana ready for her next #winenerd challenge: WSET Level 3. So…..we haven’t posted an update in awhile. But! We have lots of info to share with you all and will do so next…

To start a business you need a few basic things like an email address, website, and, depending on your marketing strategy, a social media account.  Sounds straight forward right? It is until you realize that the website builder isn’t compatible with the online store you want to use, or the online store you want to…

We were able to connect with several importers and distributors in the USA and picked their brains about exporting wine into the USA and the three-tier system*.   Originally, we planned on selling our wine Direct to Consumer, but that idea has evolved. Listen to why we’ve decided to export our wines instead and what…