Well… this is… interesting. Fellow wine fanatic and blogger Robbin Gheesling passed this tidbit onto me earlier this week: Remember Anthony dias Blue? He’s the guy who just this past summer had this to say about wine bloggers: “…bitter, carping gadflies who, as they stare into their computer screens and contemplate their dreary day jobs,…
Category: wine industry events
Wine Tools (‘Blood Into Wine’ to Chronicle AZ Wine Scene)
It’s often been cited that all 50 U.S. states make wine in some capacity (though not all make their wine from grapes). But outside of CA, WA, OR, and NY, only a handful of the remaining 46 states have any real public eye affixed on them in terms of seeking out quality wine. VA, PA,…
Coppola Sues Vinocor In A Case of Screwed-Up Screwcaps
Here’s an interesting bit of wine news – it’s not everyday that you hear about a veritable Apocalypse Now of tens of thousands and thousands of bottles of wine, let alone have that wine related to movie icons, providing an opportunity to utilize puns related to kick-ass cinema in a wine context. This week, Law.com…
Cruvee Kicks-off OwnIT Initiative
This week, Cruvee (rhymes with groovy), a firm that offers business intelligence and performance management services for the wine industry to help them mine the vast field of on-line social networking, launched an interesting initiative targeted at simplifying wine brand data across the Internet. That sounds boring, right? But… it has the potential to be…