Archive for the ‘Wine Blogs’ Category
Every now and then I think about the idea of having "guest bloggers" write for Fermentation. Usually I give consideration to someone who might offer regular wine reviews since I don’t do this and I think they might enhance the readers experience here. I’ve considered other types of guest blogging also. I’ve just never pulled the trigger. In the end it’s always been about making sure any guest blogger would really add something significant to the message that’s being delivered…
There’s something about good, solid, honest passion for the subject matter that can take a blog a long way. Combine that with thoughtfulness and a dab of keen insight and all of a sudden you’ve got something that I find really attractive. That’s what I’m finding at GrapeThinking.com, a blog by Ruarri that I noticed when they were kind enough to mention this blog in a recent post. It has been up and running for about 4 months. GrapeThinking appears…
Lesson of the day: Sometimes you don’t know you need it until it appears. Alawine.com has created a Wine Blog Search Engine. Now how cool is that? For a long time I’ve used google or technorati to figure out what’s happening with wine on blogs. Not the most efficient way to search wine blogs specifically, is it. The nice thing about the4 AlaWine.com wine blog search is of course that it’s wine blog specific. The search engine takes your search…
The work to get out the word on the great wine bloggers that were named finalists in the American Wine Blog Awards, as well as the vibrancy of the wine blog world, is underway. A press release has been issued over the wires via BusinessWire. It has been indexed on Google, Yahoo and will hopefully catch the attention of editors and writers across the country. We’ve also sent press releases out to wine media and wine writers across the county…
I think it’s significant that some of the wine world’s most important movers and shakers sat through a presentation that argued Blogs are a phenomena that need to be heeded. That was exactly the message delivered by Marc Engal at the Wine Evolution conference in Paris this week. Wine Evolution looks at the industry from a global perspective. It attracts high level participants from around the wine world and attracts speakers who specialize in looking at the wine world from…