Archive for the ‘Public Relations & Wine’ Category
Over at the day job side of my life, we are looking to fill out our database of Wine PR types. In essence we are looking for folk who have some experience in wine public relations or some experience in PR/marketing/communications and a knowledge of wine that might recommend them as potential independent contractors or even, down the road, as hires. Here’s the kind of person we want to talk to: -You can write, write well, and write fairly quickly….
I’ve been saving this post for today because it really is a “Friday-kind-of-blog-post” subject. I think I’ve discovered my favorite winery website: Carlo Rossi. You will likely recall Carlo Rossi from your youth or from the grocery store or drug store aisle where you got to pick up your margarita mix. Carlo Rossi is a jug wine producer owned by E and J Gallo. They put wine in big 4 liter jugs. They produce wines like “Paisano”, “Rhine”, “Chablis”, “Sangria”…
I suspect THIS STORY will be picked up around the wine blogosphere. If it isn’t it should be. It appears that an Australian winery, perturbed that a wine blogger’s poor review of their wines shows up high in the search engines, had threatened legal action against the blogger. I was made aware about this turn of events through an email sent to me, and many others I believe, by the folk at Wine Life Today. They were highlighting a post…
Can you imagine the Federal Govt. or a state government in the United States refering to a winery as "Third Rate"? This is the job of wine critics, isn’t it? Yet it France it appears that such character assassination is the purview of government. The French want to put a six lane highway and a TGV line through Bordeaux to make the trip from Spain to Northern France quicker. However, in doing so they are going to have to go…
Thanks to Decanter Magazine it recently came to my attention that the World Wildlife Fund has begun a campaign to preserve the use of natural cork in the use of wine. It seems a counter-intuitive call for an environmental organization because in essence the use of cork involves the exploitation of the environment. What WWF is saying, however, in their recently released report "CORK SCREWED" (PDF), is that if the global wine industry continues to migrate over to alternatives to…
