Archive for the ‘Wine Media’ Category
TAKE "THE MEANING OF WINE BLOGS" SURVEY–CLICK HERE ———————————————————————————————————————————— One of the question on the survey I’m currently running (TAKE IT NOW) asks you to think about how many blogs you read regularly. Even when writing up the survey I hadn’t thought about this in a long time. So, I went to my trusty Bloglines page to count them up: 70, exactly. Fifty-five of these are wine blogs. I check these blogs, all 70, daily. It’s a testament to the…
The venerable wine industry trade publication Wines & Vines has announced its redesign of its website. And they did very nice job. For quite some time the W&V website was a bit chaotic. And that’s too bad because the publication does a great job of producing useful, insightful articles on everything wine. The new site features sections containing headlines, news briefs, columns, features and a calendar. Most of the information is generated by staff, rather than taken off the newswires…
This pretty much made my day! I do believe a star is born.
"The House of Mondavi", a new book by Julia Flynn Siler, is a very unusual wine book. As an indication of just how unusual take a look at what the "Customers who bought this item also bought" at Amazon.com:Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of the Lazard Freres & Company. Not many books are…
There is a new Wine Hero. And you should salute him. You should shout his name from the tallest grapevine. Darrell Corti Why? Read Alan Goldfarb’s story at Appellation America in which he reports that Corti will no longer sell any wines over 14.5% alcohol. "They (high alcohol wines) make you very tired. My idea of a really good bottle of wine is that two people finish the bottle and wish there was just a little bit more. Some of…
