Apr 28, 2006
It should be clear to anyone who has paid close attention to the wine media over the past decade that the amount of good, entertaining and useful information available to consumers and the trade has exploded in quantity. Interestingly, it is on the Internet, not the print media, where the vast majority of that exploding information is coming from. This makes the evolution of the wine media different in no way from the rest of the media. There is a…
Apr 26, 2006
It’s true the wine blogging is about more than words on a screen. Occasionally you come across wine blogs that show it as well as spell it out. In my occasionally regular semi-biannual look at the wine blogging world, I’ve come up with a collection of wine blogs that appeal the visual as well as the literary. Vin Vini VinoSurely some of the most interesting photography. Proprietor Tricia was even kind enough to show us her stitches. Basic JuiceBeau gets…
Apr 24, 2006
We are gathered here today to mark the passing of a Wine Blog. And not just any wine blog, mind you. The recently departed was among the most ambitious uses of the wineblogspace yet conceived. Carolyn Tilly’s Ultimate California Wine Blog attempted to showcase a different California winery tasting room EVERY DAY. And not just a review of decor. Carolyn trained her eye on the people, the wines, the experience, the essense of the tasting room. There was nothing quite…
Apr 17, 2006
What’s with Ohio wine writers and Blogs? First we get Mark Fisher, a really fine reporter and writer for the Dayton Daily News. Mark not only jumped into the blogosphere feet first with Uncorked, but additionally took on the chore of editing Wine Sediments, the group wine blog that has emerged at the Well Fed Network. Well, now Tricia Colianne is at it. Tricia is the wine writer for the Akron Beacon Journal. As she notes in her initial blog…
Apr 14, 2006
Two good posts in a row over at Wine Sediments. Yesterday Mark Fisher, the editor of the group blog to which I also contribute, took on the notion of wine ratings and how they are offered in complete disregard for any acknowledgment of terroir and source. He’s also concerned that it is very unlikely that a review of 100,000 case bottling of a wine can’t really offer the reader any expectation that in buying the wine it will have any…