Sep 26, 2007
When it comes to wine blogs, I tend to be biased toward those that make me think, make me self evaluate and which offer something different. Wine Conversations hit those marks for me. Robert MacIntosh, the man behind the blog, describes his motivation this way: "Having experienced the peripatetic lifestyle I am now keen to promote community where I can, be it in wine, or locally around my home." His posts have of late been evaluative of the wine blogging…
Sep 21, 2007
I had the happy opportunity to give a talk to a gathering of Wine Australia yesterday in San Francisco. Wine Australia is the promotional arm of the Australian wine industry. You’ve heard of this industry, haven’t you? That’s right, it’s the industry that might be the most innovative technically and marketing-wise of any national wine industry on the globe. They had me to their gathering of Australian wine marketers and executives to talk about the issue of blogs. I choose…
Sep 12, 2007
I still get a real kick out of discovering new wine blogs by folks who are doing it well or have real potential to do it well. I tend to judge blogs on a variety of criteria, but mostly it boils down to 2 things: 1) do they have interesting things to say and 2) do they say them in a compelling way. Two such blogs have crossed my radar of late. Both are nicely designed, both have a casual…
Sep 6, 2007
I sense a change or perhaps "evolution" in the world of wine blogging. It’s not so much a change in the way wine bloggers are blogging, but rather a change in the way observers of wine blogs are observing. In part this sense I have comes from the fact that I am now receiving upwards of around 5 press releases or story pitches sent to me on a daily basis. I have to admit it remains a bit weird for…
Aug 29, 2007
Gary Vaynerchuk has some competition (though not much):