Archive for the ‘Wine Blogs’ Category
The future of Television is certainly linked to the Internet. Is the future of the wine blog linked to video. I encountered my first Video Wine Blog today, produced by the Wine Library, an Internet-based wine retailer. While its production value was not on par with what you might find on cable TV, Wine Library TV certainly demonstrates that the technology is here to exploit video via the Internet to educate people about wine (and sell more wine). We’ve discovered…
If anyone in the wine community wants a reason why Alder Yarrow’s Vinography won BEST WINE BLOG OF THE YEAR two years running, they need only look to the letters section of today’s San Francisco Chronicle.Alder’s take on the "Zinfandel as CA Official Grape" controversy is, well, unique. If Alder’s own cheek weren’t already quite busy accommodating his tongue, I might give it a big kiss for provoking me to laugh out loud.
I count upwards of 160 wine blogs listed on Wine Blog Watch. This means there are at least 200 to 250 wine blogs/podcasts rolling around the Internet. A small number of these, a very small number, have either begun accepting advertising or actively sought out sponsorships and ads for their site. I think this is a positive development. While it’s not always the case that the best, highest quality media, attract advertisers, it usually is the cases. Quality attracts an…
The most common wine blogs are those that offer tasting notes and reviews. This makes sense. After all, the most common interaction people have with wine is….tasting it. So that’s going to be the most common theme in any publication, on or off line, that deals with wine. Yet, the wine blogs that do a really good job in reviewing and writing about blogs are few and far between. You know who you are… That said it’s always nice to…
I don’t usually pay a lot of attention to those who diss me or FERMENTATION. Nor am I apt to ask others to pay attention to them. But damn it, my latest critic, despite what he had to say about me and FERMENTATION, has a pretty cool blog! "Martini Lounge: Saving the World One Drink at a Time" is an eclectic view of the bar world and its connection to culture that delivers an authentic voice that entertains with reviews…
