A new voice has come to the world of on-line wine information/reporting and it's an important one. Actually, the voice is not new. Lew Perdue is among the most experienced reporters/publishers to work in the wine industry. Many of you who read FERMENTATION will know and remember Lew. To some of you, he's probably a new name. He founded both Wine Business Insider as well as Wine Business Monthly, two publications that remain among the most important wine trade publications…
If I got together some co-conspirators, huddled in a dark place with candles aglow and hatched a diabolical plan to destroy the French wine industry, one of the things at the top of my LIST OF DIABOLICAL THINGS TO DESTROY THE FRENCH WINE INDUSTRY would be to ban free tastings of wine. But since I don't know any dark places, have no candles and can't think of a single person who would want to conspire to destroy the French wine…
13 Things I learned at the first day of the American Wine Bloggers Conference 1. Amy Atwood of Cleanskins & My Daily Wine blog is a fascinating lovely woman whose two websites don't completely scratch the surface of her potential or involvement in the wine industry. She's one of the folks from the Wine Blogger's Conference who I immediately liked and immediately knew was meant for much greater things. Nice handbag too. 2. Quivira Winery in Dry Creek Valley's one…
Cruvee launched yesterday. As in Groovy, Cruvee is new wine social networking and personalized wine information site that aims to combine comprehensive information, people’s passions for interacting over their favorite libation and powerful user-adaptive technology to create a community of well-informed users. For anyone who has used other social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace or OpenWine Consortium, Cruvee will be very easy and simple to navigate. You’ll be navigating about checking out any of the 18,000 wineries highlighted on…
