Great story in today’s San Francisco Chronicle on Bay Area Food & Wine blogs. Nice set of sidebar stories too. Alder Yarrow at Vinography is well positioned and portrayed in the story too. Congrats Alder!!

The only problem with the Wine & Vine BC Blog is that there just isn’t enough of it. What what there is is pretty darn good…and from a perspective I’ve been hoping to see more of. Wine & Vine BC is the blog of British Columbian winemaker Bradley Cooper. One of the better known BC winemakers, Cooper brings the perspective of the winemaker to the wine blog world, a refreshing change from the commentator role that most blogs play. I…

I received a quite a number of emails yesterday after Wark Communications and Fermentations were taken note of in the Wall Street Journal. Many of the emails were inquiries as to the extent to which maintaining this blog have increased business at Wark Communications. The dynamics by which Fermentations has led to an increase in clients and business is less clear than the fact that it has. But what occurred to me was the sheer lack of wineries that have…

Rich at The Wine Cellar, a good blog with intriguing content, has a disturbing post. It’s not his opinion that is disturbing, it’s the implications of the post. Rich refers in his post to the resignation of Eason Jordan, a CNN executive. Jordan was brought down by bloggers who spread word of an off the record comment he made at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland concerning American soldiers targeting journalists. The story that has emerged from Jordan’s resignation…

I’ve not done the looking around to see if wine bloggers tend to be men. My guess is that they are since it’s far and away a "man thing" to talk about and discuss wine. However, I could easily be convinced that women are better natural tasters than men. In fact I’ve heard compelling arguments that women make better natural winemakers because they are natural nurturers best demonstrated by their child birth responsibilities. In fact, it was a female winemaker…