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For Immediate Release: July 23, 2020 Statement By Organizers on The Cancellation of 13 Annual Wine Bloggers Conference STATEMENT BY ORGANIZERS ON CANCELLATION OF 13TH ANNUAL WINE BLOGGERS CONFERENCE —Merger With Wine Writers Symposium Announced— (NAPA, Calif)—The organizing committing of the North American Wine Bloggers Conference released the following statement today on the cancellation of the 13th Annual North American Wine Bloggers Conference. With an eye toward the evolving nature of wine writing and a bow to reality, the organizing…
The 2009 North American Wine Bloggers Conference will be upon me and my blogging colleagues in couple days, a circumstance that has continued to inspire me to think about the wine blogging genre and my own interest in it. More specifically, I've been thinking about the impact that blogging has had on me personally.Last night I sat with a magnificent friend in a restaurant in Napa. We shared a lovely meal, the two of us. My Sazerac, Manhattan, savory food…
The truth is, I tend to come across new blogs by virtue of the blog owners contacting me directly, when they link to FERMENTATION or when I come across them researching a blog post. BURGUNDIVA came to my attention due for the latter two reasons. Now, Ms. Erica Christie, the writer of Burgundiva describes herself thusly: "Erica is a wine enthusiast and writer in New York, where she currently is working as a consultant for a NYC wine distributor." As…
With the North American Wine Bloggers Conference coming up and given other issues surrounding this blog occupying my mind of late, I wanted to address the issue of Wine Blogging and Wine Bloggers from a public relations perspective. Specifically, I wanted to address the issue of How To Interact With a Wine Blogger. In case anyone needs reminding, and I doubt anyone in or around the wine business does, media relations are those activities that a company or individual undertakes…
Next week somewhere in the neighborhood of 250+ people from around the country will gather in Sonoma County for the second North American Wine Bloggers Conference. It's an event I look forward to with great anticipation and with the intent of coming to some conclusions about the future of wine writing. Though I recently had some thoughts on the state of wine blogging, what I may not have mentioned in that post is that it's pretty apparent that the wine…
