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Public voting in the seventh annual Wine Blog Awards is now open. You can head to the Wine Blog Awards page and cast your vote in nine categories to help determine who are to be honored this year as the top wine bloggers. And I think you should and I hope you will. The winners will be announced at the upcoming Wine Bloggers Conference in Penticton, Britsh Columbia on June 8th. I get excited about the Wine Blog Awards each…
THIS CONVERSATION GAVE ME PAUSE: THEM: Does it ever bother you that what you do for a living is pretty inconsequential? ME: What do you mean? Public relations for wine. Promoting the drinking of wine and blogging about wine. Inconsequential? My clients don’t think so. Some of my Fermentation readers don’t think what I write is inconsequential. I don’t mean you don’t accomplish anything. Of course you do. It’s just that the consequences of selling wine and wine blogging don’t…
The Wine Spectator got around to reporting on what looks for all intents and purposes to be a case of bribery involving a New York lawmaker and New York wholesalers. And the publication does a pretty darned good job of exposing for its wine-loving readers what the impact would be if an “At Rest” law is passed in the Empire State. The Spectator’s Robert Taylor Reports on Senate Bill HB 3849, noting that if passed it if would “require all…
It starts to become about the discovery of something new. Not in competitive way (“I found them before you did!”). It’s really about seeing what’s next, who’s trying something new. Even, who is trying to make their mark. I think it is the motivation that overcomes the devoted wine lover after many years of discovering the classics, the well-knowns, tasting through the countries and regions. To a certain extent it becomes what’s exciting about wine: finding that brand new brand…
Here’s what we know: Today the direct to consumer wine shipping sales channel is the most vibrant. Bar none. According to the latest ShipCompliant/Wines & Vines 2013 Direct Wine Shipping Report released Tuesday, the value of wine shipped from U.S. wineries to U.S. consumers was greater in 2012 than the value of U.S. wine exports. For years, the export market for U.S. wines has been cheers as an avenue that provide considerable opportunity and growth for the industry. For years,…
