Code of Ethics

For the sake of transparency, I’ve outlined my personal blogging code of conduct / ethics below. I welcome any questions, concerns, or comments you may have about these – the bottom line in all of this is that I am here in the blogosphere to be as fair and genuine as possible in what I write.

I am not a journalist by education or by trade. For the most part, as much as is reasonably possible, I follow the blogging code of ethics as outlined at this link.

I am not affiliated with any of the companies or websites linked on this blog, apart from advertisers / affiliate programs who (obviously) pay me in some way/shape/form to be listed in the sidebar.

For the purposes of creating 1WineDude.com content, I don’t work for any wine shops, wine retailers, wine stores, winemakers, or wineries. Therefore, I fundamentally consider myself an independent source of wine information.

Reviews and Junkets

I reserve the right to refuse to review any wine that is sent to me for the purpose of a review on this blog. I may or may not agree to write a post when/if I receive a wine. If a winery or distributor sends me a wine, and I do decide to review it, I review it objectively. That doesn’t mean I am without subjective taste preferences – it means that I might give it a bad review if I find the wine to be of poor quality.

Similarly, I’m not opposed to junkets, but won’t accept them if they come with conditions, and if I take part in them I reserve the right to write objectively about the junket and its wines (or possibly not to write about it at all… ah, you get the idea…).

As a general rule, I do NOT taste & review wines blind. This is because I don’t know anyone in the normal world who drinks their wines blind with dinner.

Unless otherwise stated, every product and/or wine reviewed on 1WineDude.com is a sample provided to me (though never in exchange for coverage or promotion on this website).  I do not accept offers for sponsored content here on 1WineDude.com.

I make no claims or guarantees whatsoever as to whether or not this blog and its contents will entertain/educate/enlighten/offend/exacerbate you, incite riots, contribute to the fall of Communism, make the roads safe for cyclists, or give you the ability to produce useful mechanized farm equipment from pieces of clay and raw hemp.

I do hope it will help you to enhance your appreciation of wine, however!

Comments Policy

I want to encourage lively, respectful and fun debate in this blog.  In fact, this thing is really boring without YOUR input – so feel free to contribute often.  We need to keep it clean, though, so any comments that appear to fall into the following categories will be deleted (repeat offenses will get you booted from leaving comments altogether):

• Spam (duh)
• Comments that violate any U.S. law
• Obscene or threatening language, or attacks/insults that are personal in nature this is a site for adults, and colorful language is okay, but don’t take things too far)
• Blatant product promotion
• Intellectual property right violations (or potential violations)
• Private information / data published without prior consent
• Comments that are blatantly off topic or that link to off-topic material

Privacy

I do not provide e-mail addresses or other information that may be collected on 1WineDude.com (through the contact form or through the comments engine) to any third parties; they are stored only in the password-protected systems of my E-mail program and the blogging platform (WordPress), only because I’ve got no idea how to prevent those systems from storing them.  Demographics and other information is provided to potential advertisers only in the aggregate (e.g., “X% of readers live in the U.S.”), and no specific individual information is ever used for that purpose.

Cheers!

Other stuff you might dig:

• Sorry - no related stuff found!