It’s that time of year again, people. The time when you get to have your say on what constitutes the best of alternative wine coverage on-line. The time for you to vote in the 2012 Wine Blog Awards. The 2012 WBA finalists have been announced today, and as it has been since the WBA’s inception,…
Category: wine industry events
Wine + Digital: If This Doesn’t Blow Your Mind, You’re Not Paying Enough Attention
My friend Paul Mabray, of Vintank, recently gave a keynote address at an event held in Dijon, France, called “The Perfect Storm: How digital tools are forever changing the way we sell and market wine.” I didn’t attend (alas), and I’ve no affiliation with the event apart from a random one: its organizer (another friend,…
The Strangest Day Of My Life. So Far. (Almost Getting Bulldozed By Chef Emeril)
The most awesome among you who read these virtual pages regularly might recall my brief mention of an encounter with Emeril Lagasse (yes, that Emeril) and other surreal experiences involving live animals and The America’s Cup from Auction Napa Valley 2012 that, taken together, might have constituted the strangest day of my life. I had…
Winners Of The DLW 2012 Colorado Wine Taste-Off (And Why CO Wine Might Already Have World-Class Potential)
The conclusion of the recent 2012 Drink Local Wine Conference in Denver was a “taste-off” competition of sorts in which twenty-plus Colorado wine producers each poured two of their offerings, with the media and attendees voting on which of those offerings were the “best” on hand (technically, one producer wasn’t pouring wine, in terms of…