I’m pretty sure that sometime at the beginning of the year I predicted that the number of winery blogs would increase by a large amount this year. And it looks like that prediction is going to be born our. I came across another winery that is really doing an outstanding job communicating their irreverent perspective on life and wine via their relatively new blog. Twisted Oak Winery in the Sierra Foothills calls their blog EL BLOGGO TORCIDO (essentially translated as…
Just a reminder to those reading FERMENTATION that there is a cadre of folk who help the FERMENTATION Cause. Check them out. Visit their websites and businesses. They include: K&L WINE MERCHANTSA fantastic wine retailer located in the San Francisco Bay Area and on the Internet. They recently got serious props from the Wall Street Journal for just about everything they do in the store and on the Net. INERTIA BEVERAGE GROUPThe industry experts on how to sell wine on…
I think it’s pretty clear that Eric Asimov likes his job. Read this evocative description of the Bollinger 1970 Vielles Vignes Champagne he tasted at the House of Bollinger from his most recent column in the New York Times: “It was sedate for a Champagne, the bubbles soft and delicate, the color golden, bordering on amber. It was bone dry and quiet at first, but with a little air, it took on richness. It was still lively, graceful yet intense,…
Ever wonder what the life of a barrel looks like? Annette Hoff, winemaker at Cima Collina, a client of Wark Communications, one who works in a region I’m quickly coming to conclude is on the cutting edge of all that is great about California winemaking (Monterey), and who also is a great blogger, has a post on just this subject. The fact is, Annette simply doesn’t’t blog enough…or, enough for me. Each of her posts are a delight, very personal,…
Taj at Cork & Demon has apparently finished her notorious Western Wine Tour. It was, as far as I know, "on the road" wine blogging event to hit the blogosphere. Taj started in Texas, made here way through the southwest, up through California, Oregon and Washington, then back home. Along the way she stopped and visited wineries, talked to owners and winemakers and blogged it all. I envy Taj. Who doesn’t really. There is something very substantially American about the…
