Apr 28, 2006
10 Things I’ve learned About Wine Blogging 1. The more you post the more readers you will have. 2. If you can’t show an interest in your peers’ blogs, why would they show an interest in yours? 3. The greatest luxury for a blogger is having an editor (wish I had one). 4. HTML and style sheets aren’t as difficult to learn as you think, but they are very hard to master. 5. Linking out to other sites and pages…
Apr 27, 2006
The "Wine Pod People" (just looking at that phrase gives you the willies, doesn’t it) got some GREAT publicity today when the San Francisco Chronicle published a fine story about their unique home winemaking system: The Wine Pod. We caught wind of the Wine Pod back in February and were very taken with the idea of having such a compact, integrated system for making wine in our home. (I’m still working on the wife..she hasn’t relented…yet.) The anecdotal evidence that…
Apr 27, 2006
Is it OK to question the policy that drinking alcohol should be outlawed for anyone under 21 years of age? Or if you do, are you promoting inappropriate behavior? You don’t hear many people advocating that the drinking age be lowered from 21. It’s a no win argument that will lead to being painted as irresponsible and uncaring for the well being of America’s youth. But the fact is, a drinking age of 21 is simply ludicrous. Diageo, one of…
Apr 26, 2006
$1,400,000. This is the price that Florida legislators are willing to take in order to allow wine wholesalers in that state to bend over and have at Florida’s wine lovers. Over the past five years, the Florida alcohol wholesalers have contributed more than $1.4 Million to Florida legislators. What does that buy? Besides politicians, it purchases a restriction that will prevent Florida consumers from purchasing wines directly from some of America’s largest wineries. If you ask me, that a piss…
Apr 25, 2006
Darryl Roberts has been threatening it for quite some time and now it’s here. Wine X Magazine’s new website is up and running and it looks great. But it reads better. Darryl Robert’s Wine X Magazine changed the way people viewed wine simply by offering a new vocabulary for describing it. In the beginning the magazine was panned by a number of people in the business, including writers and winery-types. It got to the point where you could break down…