Archive for the ‘Wine Blogs’ Category

Jan 16, 2006

Inspecting “America’s Greatest Cellar”

Fine Wine Press‘ "Blog au Vin has been bringing the blogosphere some of the best wine writing over the past few months. They’ve attracted a number of interesting and very well informed wine insiders who, in addition to regular contributor Fabian Cobb, have been writing great stuff. The latest marvel at Blog Au Vin is an entry by John Kapon, Director of New York wine auction house Acker Merrall. Kapon describes his inspection of what he consider to be the…

Jan 5, 2006

Food & Wine Blog Award Nominees

Kate at Accidental Hedonist has announced the Nominees for the Food (and beverage) Blog Awards In the "Best Blog Covering Wine, Beer or Spirits" it’s a motley Crew of Nominees: A GOOD BEER BLOGFERMENTATIONLENNDEVOURSSCOTCH BLOGVINOGRAPHY It’s pretty clear that Kate and her judges have worked their spatulas off to get this process up and running. Three Cheers for them. Now…Go Vote Here.

Dec 15, 2005

The Most Impactful Wine Blog Post of the Year

It was early in 2005 that a discussion erupted on number of wine blogs about the kind of impact the wine blogs could have on the world of wine. Opinion ran the gamut from pushing wine sales to getting more people interested in wine to no impact whatsoever.Mark Fisher, proprietor of the blog "Uncorked" has demonstrated that a wine blog can have an impact. Over the past couple weeks Mark has been blogging about a discrepancy he encountered while walking…

Dec 12, 2005

Wine Blog Con 2006

As some of you know there is a growing movement to hold a Wine Bloggers Conference sometime in 2006. Most agree that the time seems right. Jerry at WineWaves originally raised the idea. Craig Camp of Anne Amie Vineyards has offered up use of his winery in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The issues being discussed by wine bloggers, members of the trade, advertisers and marketers are currently being discussed over at the Wine Camp Blog Forum. I urge anyone…