Archive for the ‘Wine Blogs’ Category
The following comment was recently posted on the Fermentation post that announced the American Wine Blog Winners: You have a very nice blog. I enjoy the information and access to other blogs. I’m a new blogger… have you seen the naked woman on the newest Imagine Wine label? Check out www.imaginewine.com. It is beautiful. I tasted the wines recently at the Santa Ynez Vintners Festival too and the wine is good and a great value, but has to be bought…
Those of us who are regularly looking for evidence that the online world of wine is able to reach into the physical or non digitized world of wine need examples to that effect. We have a new one. Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV has been published…ON PAPER. The publisher is Rodale and the book, "Gary Vaynerchuk’s 101 Wines: Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World", I schedule for release on May 13. This is good news…
"In yet another anti-intellectual effort to take fancy-schmancy wine down a peg or two, a new book purports to demonstrate that price bears little relation to quality and that the experts don’t know what they are talking about." This is how Eric Asimov at The Pour begins a post that I think is deliciously provocative. The "effort" he is referring to is a new book entitled, "The Wine Trials". The book describes a set of blind tastings of wines costing…
In case you didn’t know it…WINE BLOGGERS ARE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR! WINE BLOGS ARE REGULARLY INFILTRATED BY WINERIES POSTING GREAT REVIEWS OF THEIR OWN WINES ON OTHER PEOPLE’S BLOGS YOU CAN’T TELL WHAT CONTENT ON A WINE BLOG IS INDEPENDENT AND WHAT IS PAID FOR. BLOGS HAVE NO QUALITY CONTROL OF THEIR CONTENT MOST OF WHAT’S IN THE WINE BLOGOSPHERE IS RUBBISH WINE BLOGGERS DON’T DELIVER FRESH IDEAS How do I know all this is the case? I read…
I just now became aware of a TERRIFIC new wine blog from a long time wine industry insider that has all the markings of being a great regular read. Many of you will know Kim Stare Wallace. Kim is VP of one of Sonoma County’s most loved and most venerable wineries: Dry Creek Vineyards. In her newish blog, Wilma’s Wine World, she legitimately and properly refers to herself as an "insider". As Kim writes in her "About" section: "I literally…
