It’s true. Myself and Christian from Turn the Screw were invited on Lynn Chamberlain’s "Wine & Dine" Radio show to talk about wine blogging, the ego-centric nature of writing, selling wines you like, Savannah and how studying the lives of Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt and other mid 20th century figures can lead to blogging about wine. Listen Here…or, find Lynn’s show archived on the iTunes radio channel.

Another of my favorite publications was also nominated for a prestigious James Beard Award. The Pinot Report, also out of Sonoma County like Michele Anna Jordan’s "Mouthful" radio show, was nominated for an award in the category of "Newsletter Writing on Food, Beverage, Restaurant and Nutrition". Published and written by Greg Walter, The Pinot Report has been featured in this blog here and here. The approach of The Pinot Report is to bring a focused eye on West Coast Pinot…

Sometimes exactly the right people get recognized. That happened when the James Beard Awards Nominees were announced this evening. Throughout the country there are a number of really wonderful radio shows that focus on food and wine. Lynn Chamberlain’s "Wine & Dine" show on iTunes is great (more on that in a later post), Gene Burn’s "Dining Around with Gene Burns" on KGO in San Francisco is dynamite and one I never miss. But out here in Sonoma County there…

If MKF Research is right, and they usually are, California wil need to produce an additional 4.5 million cases of high end wine, give or take, in order to satisfy demand by 2010. MKF is the wine industry premier wine research company and often releases various statistical reports and forcasts for the industry. In their latest Monthly Report they forecast that a combination of increased demand and a slowdown in yields over recent vintages will mean that another 18,000 acres…