THE CHALK REPORT

by Andrew Chalk This weekend the Goody Goody liquor store chain in Texas will introduce the liquor store of the future at their Greenville Avenue  branch. It will not only totally change the consumer buying experience but also lower prices. It even makes the store shelves look totally different and shrinks the store by about half to sell the same number of SKUs (different items). I went to a preview today and it is quite a change. The first thing you see is that there is no

by Andrew Chalk Most winemakers' lives are a life of constraints: The existing vineyards, the existing grapes, above all, the conventional wisdom. A few break free and set the conventional wisdom for the next generation. Pepe Raventós is one of the latter. In the high Penedes region of northeastern Spain, geographically distant and culturally opposite to cosmopolitan Barcelona. This is a remote land of hills and low yields, a landscape almost bereft of symbols of modernity, w