Archive for the ‘Wine Blogs’ Category

Aug 13, 2009

Free Wine Is Good

Little revelations are always good because they tend to speak to principles to live by. Here’s my latest (and I’m embarrassed that I’ve only lately realized it): I don’t want serious restaurant critics to pay for their meals nor serious wine critics to pay for a drop of wine. Why? I don’t trust a restaurant or wine critic to accurately or honestly evaluate their experience when part of that experience is filtered through the dent their object of evaluation made…

Aug 7, 2009

Of Knowlege and Opinion on Wine

Let us sit together and speak of knowledge as men do. Always ask: What does this reviewer know? We know what he thinks, but what does he know? This command comes from one of the smartest, most experienced and most knowledgeable wine writers/reporters/critics I've ever known: Dan Berger. He wrote it in his latest issue of his "Dan Berger's Vintage Experiences" in an article entitled Analyzing Marketing. In this article he lists a series of aphorisms and truths that he…

Aug 3, 2009

A Shiny New Glass

I used to go searching for new wine blogs to see what was emerging. These days I have enough GoogleAlerts set that newly indexed blogs or blogs that match my search criteria come to me all on th. Recently I came across a blog that does one of the most difficult things in wine blogging and does it really well. A Glass After Work came to me due to a GoogleAlert I had set up for the Wine Bloggers Conference….