Archive for the ‘Wine Blogs’ Category
It’s a big year for Tyler Colman of the Dr. Vino Wine Blog. First he takes home Best Overall Wine Blog and Best Writing on a Wine Blog at the American Wine Blog Awards and now he finds his blog nominated in the "Best Website Focusing on Food, Beverage, Restaurant or Nutrition" at the prestigious James Beard Awards." (PDF) A couple other nominations really pleased me. Wine & Spirits Magazine once again had one of its authors nominated. This time…
Pests. They are the things that give grape growers fits. They tend to be insects, birds and even the occasional wild boar. However, you rarely here folks who grow grapes in CA, or nearly anywhere, make this complaint: "One of the pests that we have to contend with are baboons" All in the service of a good bottle of wine, I presume. Apparently baboons are big fans of ripe grapes. The folks worrying about Baboons are the Leakey family. Yes,…
Who’s to say? That’s the question that Ryan over at CalWineriesBlog asks about whether a wine is good or bad or average. It’s a good question. His answer is is YOU. That is, if you are drinking the wine all that really matters is what you think of it. But this is really beside the point. The real question is who’s opinion will you take in helping decide if you buy a wine? While I subscribe to the idea that…
Who’s reading wine blogs…and why? I’ve done a variety of survey’s of FERMENTATION readers on a number of topics and always ask a few demogaphic questions. So, I have a general idea of the generalities of our readership. However, it’s difficult to know more than things like age, location, income, etc. But every now and again I pull up the ISP stats for FERMENTATION to get an idea of the source of FERMENTATION’s readers. This is limited in its usefulness….
Napa and Sonoma seem ripe for the picking. Maybe I’m just not aware of it, but I don’t know of a wine blog that focuses its energy and words on either Napa Valley or Sonoma County exclusively. It’s not as though these two rather large regions, home to immense amounts of winemaking energy, wines, and wine lover focus, don’t have enough going on in them to justify the attention of a single blog. I couldn’t stop marveling at this seeming…
