Mar 5, 2010
In 2007 I asked myself, "what would the best wine blog look like"? I had my own answers to this question. But what I was more interested in is what others, many others, thought about this question. It then occurred to me that were the best wine blogs able to be identified we just might be able to draw attention to the best work among those who took the time to share their insights on wine and the world of…
Feb 10, 2010
I used to like Steve Heimoff because he was willing to listen to or carefully read a pitch I'd throw his way about a client. Then I started to like him more because he seemed to have a similar appreciation for wine styles as me. These days I still like him for these reasons. But like him even more because he makes me think harder about my assumptions and understandings of my business and world, even when he's wrong. Take…
Feb 1, 2010
"You are an important 'Influencer' in the wine industry". This was part of a message sent to me in an email late last week. Whether they were trying to butter me up or not isn't that important. But it's interesting that they wrote this because of late I've been thinking a lot about the idea of "influencers" and where blogs fit into any calculation of influencers inside the wine industry. I've thought about this idea for two decades actually. As…
Jan 20, 2010
What would you do if you were a wine and food enthusiast and due to a dictate by the Gods, you were only allowed to read one publication to satisfy your enthusiasm for food and drink? No more scanning blogs. No more waiting for the various food and wine print pubs with their dwindling pages to arrive in your mailbox. Just one publication to satisfy your craving for all things food and drink? Personally, I'm nearly convinced that I'd abandon…
Jan 13, 2010
Every now and then I get a little bit of link love across the world wide web. But two important items of link love in one day? Unheard of. THE DOPE ON POT VS WINEJane Wells, correspondent for CNBC, wrote a post on her blog "Funny Business" that took off from my own blog post about the marketing of dope and wine, were dope legal. It's a nice take and she was nice enough to liberally quote from me. SHOE…