Mar 25, 2005
Today I’ll take my mother home from the hospital she has been in since having a stroke a little over two weeks ago. So, today is a good day. A very good day. You think about a lot of different things when you see a parent lying in a hospital bed. Priorities come to mind. The debt we owe to those that offer us unconditional love. These are things that really ought to come to mind as a matter of…
Mar 25, 2005
Wine Blog Watch and my own searching and discovered what seems like a lot of new wine blogs lately. And that’s a good thing. Frankly I don’t thinks we are anywhere near the top of the growth curb. But, you know that the idea of wine blogging is catching on when you find a blog called Sports Geezer get in the act. It’s a great blog that focuses on sports for the over 40 crowd. To be exact, Sports Geezer…
Mar 24, 2005
When you think of "public relations" and PR people, most immediately think of "Spin" and "damage control". Public relations is a vast industry with specialist of all types. And, it’s "spin" and "damage control" that is usually bandied about by the press and others when my profession comes up for discussion. So here is an interesting little fact: "damage control" is almost never a part of a wine publicist’s job. Not that we can’t undertake such jobs, it’s just that…
Mar 23, 2005
Wine lovers tend to be readers. If they weren’t there would not be entire wine subsection in the "Cooking" area of the bookstore. That’s not to say that tomato lovers are not readers. It’s just that there’s a good deal more to investigate when it comes to wine. So, if you really want to investigate wine. If you want to step into Wine Reader Nirvana, you really need to visit The Sonoma County Wine Library in Healdsburg, California. This remarkable…
Mar 22, 2005
"Many new world wines are very good but don’t have the depth and structure [of great Bordeaux] and never will have." Bill Baker, UK Wine Consultant Again from this Decanter Magazine Story Ten to one this guy sells mainly Bordeaux! What do you think? Nevertheless, my snide remarks here don’t address the central question: How should producers of Bordeaux and those who sell Bordeaux address this issue and the study at issue? How about like this: While it is true…