Archive for the ‘Wine Education’ Category
A holiday in Northern California’s wine country usually means heading to Napa Valley, Sonoma County or a little of both. In realty and for most people, it means choosing between one or the other. Choosing between Napa and Sonoma isn’t required necessarily by geography, but the vast majority of folks do choose one region and stay put. Having lived in both spots and having spent a good deal of time exploring and working in the wine realm in both areas,…
The appointment of Antonio Galloni to the California reviewer position at Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate a year and a half ago was an important event in the world of California Wine. For years, Robert Parker’s palate was the source of reviews of the state’s wines at the influential Wine Advocate. How things might change under a Galloni palate has been the topic of some conversation. No matter who might have been appointed to the California Chair of the Wine Advocate,…
The "Annual Alcohol Law Symposium" sounds pretty important. Alcohol law is pretty serious stuff, impacts just about everyone in the land, and is an important field in the area of law. So it should be that an "Annual Alcohol Law Symposium" ought to be organized by an equally important sounding "Center for Alcohol Policy". But here's my question: How can such an important sounding symposium, produced by such an important sounding organization, present a list of symposium speakers that counts…
While it is true that upon launching a wine blog a "writer" does not necessarily appear, it is equally true that upon launching a wine blog, a new "publisher" has appeared. Continuing to think about the nature of wine blogging on the eve of the Wine Bloggers Conference later this week, it seems absolutely clear to me that the emergence of the "blog" has resulted in a paradigm shift in realm of publishing. And this is equally true for wine…
Great wine content doesn't die. It just gets re-platformed. This is the case with much of the important reference content on AppellationAmerica.com. Today, the recently launched Appellation America App (for the iPhone), provides mobile users with one of the best sources of appellation and grape variety descriptons in one place. For those of you who do not recall the Appellation America website, it was among the most impressive online wine publishing ventures I'd ever conceived. I really got to know…
