Mar 15, 2006
First it was Jon Bonne of MSNBC.com with his "Amuse Bouche" Blog. Then came Mark Fisher of the Dayton Daily News with his "Uncorked" blog. Now, it’s Mr. Eric Asimov of the New York Times with a new Blog called "The Pour". I think we can now officially say the "mainstream media" has discovered wine blogs. And this is a good thing. There is an inherent bias against wine blogs that comes from the notion that they and those behind…
Mar 10, 2006
I met yesterday with potential clients who had an interesting dilemma. They had just purchased a winery that had been around for about 10+ years. In recent years the brand wasn’t doing to well, a combination of factors had led it to reduce its production and have a good deal of older inventory on hand. The dilemma: Do they stay with the same name for the winery or do they change the name. What’s interesting about this question is that…
Mar 3, 2006
Domain Name Commerce…Now there’s a topic that hasn’t been hot since the heady days of the Internet Bubble. Yet today I run across a press release by winedomains.com, a company that traffics in domain names…as you might expect. They report that with the opening up of direct sales after the May Supreme Court ruling, sales of wine-related domain name sales have increased siting the consummating of the following sales: CabernetSauvignon.com $20,000 WineList.com $21,255 RedWines.com …
Feb 28, 2006
Show me one wine blogger who wouldn’t want to do THIS . Taj James, the blogger behind "Cork & Demon Wine Blog" is ready to embark on a wine blogging road trip she’s appropriately named, "The Cork & Demon Western Wine Tour 2006". The idea? Travel through as many western U.S. wine areas talking to wine people and live blogging it. She explains, "I’m in search of America’s finest Wine People. People at all levels of winemaking, selling and growing,…
Feb 27, 2006
If you believe in the idea of a community-based economy in food, in farmers markets, in finding a way to help support this important source of hand grown foods, then you need to take a quick glance at Adam Mahler’s post at Untangled Vine in which he reports on the move among some Representatives in Washington D.C. to help the Farmer’s Market Movement. Adam has the background on the bill and it appears he’ll be delivering more information in the…