Archive for the ‘Wine Media’ Category
The big newspaper north of San Francisco is the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. As you might imagine being published smack dab in the middle of wine country they do a great job of covering the wine industry. One of their best reporters on wine-related events, Virginie Boone, has jumped into the world of Wine Blogs with her new WINEABOUT Blog. Virginie follow a path trodden other writers and journalists who have taken up wine blogging that include Eric Asimov of…
Who writes these headlines? Chicken Little? Jonathan Swift? Publicists for the beer Industry ? "Global Warming Destroys Wine Industry" I say we just pack it up and pull out the vines…whadda ya say? I almost detect a sense of glee in this headline that comes from a story produced by the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center. The above headline communicates a slightly different story than this headline, doesn’t it: "Napa Threatened By Global Warming" The story that goes…
It’s all about Rose…Dry Rose. As far as I’m concerned, if you aren’t drinking predominantly Dry Rose between mid June and the end of September then you just are living right. It used to be that your choices in the category of Dry Rose were quite limited. Most of those available were made in mass quantities, were not that interesting and they probably had too much sugar in them. Sure, you had the Saintsbury’s and and others who make great…
Well, I read it…and with great anticipation. Hugh McLeod’s "Stormhoek’s Guide To Wine Blogging" was something I really was looking forward to reading. In the first place Hugh has proven himself quite the forward thinker when it comes to communicating anew in the world of blogs and on-line for the purpose of business development. He’s also used his popular Gaping Void Blog to help promote Stormhoek Winery, a South African venture that has done quite well in the UK and…
I love Amazon.com. In addition to finding just about anything I want there, it also allows me to look into the future….of publishing. On a quarterly basis or so I checking with Amazon by doing a search on "Wine" in the "Books" section of the site and sort my findings by publishing date. What results is a list of books not yet published but set to be released over the next the next few months…or years. What I’m looking for…
