BloggerviewName: Alder YarrowBlog: VinographyWhere: http://www.vinography.com When I began FERMENTATION back in 2004 I looked around the Internet, looking to find those bloggers that were taking the medium seriously. Alder Yarrow was among the very few I found. What was most interesting about Alder’s blog was that with the exception of the unique medium, he appeared very similar to most of the other very serious wine writers I’d known for years. Yet I’d never heard of him. Today Alder still ranks…

Bloggerview #3Name: Josh HermsmeyerBlog: Pinot BloggerWhere: http://www.pinotblogger.com My first impression of Josh was occurred when I discovered Pinot Blogger. "What a great idea," I thought. Chronicle the birth of a winery. My expectations were low. Frankly, there just weren’t very many wineries at the time who either understood blogging or put much effort into their blogs. Today, Josh’s winery (Cappozi Family Winery) is one of the few wineries that has jumped into the Wine 2.0/Web 2.0 arena and made the…

The Bloggerview #2Name: Terrance HughesBlog: MondosaporeWhere: http://www.mondosapore.com Terrence Hughes is the author and proprietor of MONDOSAPORE, probably the best and most erudite wine blog on the net that puts emphasis on the wines of Italy. His choices of subject matter, while usually focused on Italian wine and culture, can stray off into the eclectic and person. This makes Mondosapore what a good wine blog should be—something of a sidecar into which the reader can jump as the blogger heads toward…

THE BLOGGERVIEW #1Name: Fredric KoeppelBlog: Bigger Than Your HeadWhere: http://biggerthanyourhead.net/ Fredric Koeppel has written about wine professionally since long before there was an Internet or e-mail. In 2006 he launched "BIGGER THAN YOUR HEAD", a wine blog meant to "gazes critically at the creating and preparing, the marketing and selling, the truth and the hypocrisy, the issues and the language behind what we eat and drink." 1. When did you begin blogging and why?I launched BTYH in December 2006 because…