Archive for the ‘Wine Blogs’ Category
I believe the Annual Wine Bloggers Conference provides a large measure of inspiration, education and insight for those writers that attend. It’s for this reason that the Wine Bloggers Conference Scholarship Fund, which helps bring a number of bloggers to the conference who may not be able to afford it otherwise, is a very good thing and kudos to Thea Dwelle for administering the scholarship fund. But this is also why I will offer this challenge to the wine industry,…
Nominations for the 7th Annual Wine Blog Awards are open and running through March 31st. It’s an opportunity for wine blog readers to nominate blogs for awards in a number of categories that they believe deserve recognition. But, ought wine blogs be singled out for honor above others? Some say “No”. There are, however, good reasons for awards for wine blogs. Here are 5 good ones: 1. GRATITUDE: Gratitude for those who have worked hard and regularly to provide insightful…
The very best (and worst) comments on this blog aren’t comments at all. They come in the form of emails to me and they come from people who don’t give their name and hide their identity via generic Gmail, YahooMail and HotMail email address. Still, they are some of the best I get. It’s that time when I highlight a few of these gems and provide responses. Wark: What I want to know is how much the industrial wineries are…
Over the course of the past week, I’ve been interacting with different folks in a number of forum where the subjects of the wine media and the wine trade in particular have been commingled in the discussions. It became clear that too often these conversations are stalled when different terms are used differently, particularly where the subject of the wine media is concerned. So, I thought I’ve offer a few definitions and explanations on this subject. Below are words often…
“You, know, the rule of thumb is that once you’ve done something for 10 years, you’ve created one sentence in your obituary, maybe a paragraph if the writer is feeling frisky.” This was the response blurted out by a gentleman after he learned that I’d recently completed my 8th year of blogging about wine here at FERMENTATION. I was introduced to him at a party last night and he mentioned that he’d read this blog. He asked how long I’d…
