Archive for the ‘Wine Blogs’ Category
On the sixth anniversary of starting this blog, I see that I've produced 2,170 posts in those six years of blogging about wine, the wine industry, wine politics, wine public relations and marketing, and my affinity for bourbon. However, all those blog posts aren't what interest me today as I reflect on the past six years of writing under my own name for public consumption. What interests me is why I, and other wine bloggers, do it. Though difficult to…
Take a close look at this chart. It comes from the recently released 2010 American Wine Writer Survey and outlines some differences between those that have been writing about wine for 5 years or less and those writing about wine for 20 years or more. The first thing to take note of is the use of social media tools like blogs, Facebook and Twitter. The less time someone has been writing about wine, the more likely they are to use…
It has been some time since I've highlighted a new wine blog that deserves our attention. I'm not sure what that means and I prefer not to contemplate the matter. That said, go read TERROIRIST: A Daily Wine Blog. It's new, it's good, it's smart, it's daily and it's on my "to read" list. TERROIRIST is the creation of David White, a Washington, DC based writer and communications consultant who has an eye for the curious, the cultural, the political…
Jim Gabler will be familiar to readers of this blog who count themselves devotees of the more esoteric wine literary pursuits. An expert on wine and the life of Thomas Jefferson, Gabler has penned two of the more fascinating books in the American wine literary canon: "An Evening with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson" and "Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson," winner of the Veuve Cliquot Wine Book of the year. He has also penned, "Wine Into Words,"…
On my Thursday mind… "It's like using an ATM"Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board spokesperson Stacy Witalec on the new "Wine Kiosks" spreading to various grocery stores in the state Well, not really, unless you have taken an automated breathalyzer test by blowing into the ATM prior to retrieving your 20s. The absurdity of the PA wine kiosks that force you to look through a little window at the wine bottle, stare into a camera, hope the person looking at your…
