Archive for the ‘Wine Blogs’ Category
DON’T FORGET TO TAKE THE FERMENTATION READER SURVEY ============================================================ My weekly post at Wine Sediments, a group wine blog, is up and concerns the Zinfandel Advocates & Producers upcoming ZINPOSIUM. If you have more than a passing interest in the grape and the wine ZINPOSIUM an event taking place July 7-9. All the names and wines will be there. Click on the link above to read the Wine Sediments post and get the background on the event. ================================================================DON’T FORGET TO…
It was, I believe, the great Gore Vidal who once wrote, "Every time a friend of mine succeeds a little part of me dies." It’s a pretty astute, and brave, commentary on the effects and power of envy. Some of us bloggers fancy ourselves decent writers. Some of us are mistaken, some close to the mark, other are underestimating their value completely if they think themselves only decent writers. A safe self assessment puts me somewhere between the first two…
In case no one saw it, Mark Fisher (pictured on the left and demonstrating the reason God gave us two hands) of Uncorked writing for WineSediments Wine Blog on the Well Fed Network posted a fascinating piece on the organizing of the of the upcoming 30th Anniversary celebration of the the Great Paris Tasting of 1976. The controversy is over how the European judges and the American judges will be tasting the wines as they compare French and American wines…
DON’T FORGET TO TAKE THE FERMENTATION READER SURVEY ============================================================ Another wine blog aggregator has appeared: VinoBlogosphere. Like other aggregation sites, VinoBlogosphere has chosen a selection of the nearly 300 wine blogs and posts their most recent entries. This new site is presenting posts from only 15 different wine blogs. So far I’ve not come across a wine blog aggregation site that does of a better job of updating me on whats been said and whats being discussed in the wine…
NO…."Wine Blog Watch" is not Dead? For a week now the pre-eminent catalog of wine blogs has been no where to be seen. Going to the site rewards one with: "The connection has timed out". However, according to proprietor, Jarret, the site will be back up within the week. The beauty of Wine Blog Watch is its constant reporting on which blogs have been updated in the past hour. It has been one of my most important sources for newly…
