Tag Archives: Bloggers

Wine Bloggers’ 5-Year Reunion: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Redux

Thoughts of attending a high school reunion lead to a barrage of emotional responses. From "I Can't Wait!" to "Not just no; but Hell, No!" and plenty in-between, a reunion is different things to different people. For one whom high school ...

Taste Live Sneak Peak at The Wineyard

Join us for a Sneak Peak of The Wineyard at Santa Rosa Vintners’ Square!

When I met Creative Furnace's Cailyn McCauley and Joel Quigley for dinner at Healdsburg's popular Spoon Bar during Sonoma Harvest Weekend, they were bursting with news about a future "base camp" for TasteLive! Now we can share the news with you! ...

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Is PR Giving You a Bad Name?

They say there is no such thing as bad publicity. The thought is that even bad press is better than no press at all. Perhaps. But what happens when marketing and PR gets between you and the press? Sometimes the best ...

East Bound & Down, in Charlottesville for WBC11

Yesterday we left the sweltering heat of Houston in the morning, grabbed breakfast at the airport (never a good idea) and headed east to join our friends at the fourth annual North American Wine Bloggers Conference. Although we had a "direct ...

Wine Writing is Broken? Viva Wine Blogging!

While I would love it to be my full-time job, Another Wine Blog is something that I do in my "free" time - between the laundry, feeding the dog, making the bed and the one-hour commute each way to slave ...

Taste Live! Tuesday: California Chardonnay

The Judgement of Paris put California Chardonnay on the map. In 1976, British wine merchant Steven Spurrier organized a wine competition that pitted top-quality Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay wines from France and California in a blind tasting. Wine geeks and ...

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Robert Parker is NOT responsible for Kenny G!

In April of 1970 Miles Davis released one of the truly unique, original and influential albums of all time. Bitches Brew took listeners places no one even knew existed until Davis showed the way. Unlike the "cool" Miles Davis of ...

7 Things You Might Not Know…

My favorite beer wench, in fact, The Beer Wench, tagged me in her latest post, "7 Things You Might Not Know About The Wench." Although you might not know all seven of the "things" she lists, I actually knew quite ...

Wine Intelligence admits Bias, Ulterior Motives in “Wine Blogger Distrust” Release

Last week Wine Intelligence, the self-proclaimed "leading research-led strategy consultancy serving the global wine industry," released the following: Consumers wary of blogger recommendations, according to research Independent bloggers are one of the least trusted wine information sources in the UK, ...

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Announcing the Results of the 2010 Annual AWB Self-Serving Wino Survey

Another Wine Blog is delighted to reveal the results of our 2010 Annual AWB Self-Serving Wino Survey. But first, a few words about our methodology. After all, a survey of any kind is only as good as the methodology employed ...