Today's Featured Blog Postings for Friday, November 20th
Each day our editors monitor 50 wine industry blogs and select the most relevant, recent postings.
A summary of each posting with a link to the blog is listed below.
Artisan Family of Wines What's Wrong with Chardonnay? NothingNovember 20thI read with interest Steve Heimoff’s recent blog post: “The problem(s) with Chardonnay” ...I have two reactions to Steve Heimoff’s article: 1. I agree with everything he has to say. 2. I disagree with everything he has to say.
The Cellarist One Barrel: What's wrong with "natural wine"November 20thWhich commment from which defender of modern winemaking advances did it? Somewhere in the past couple weeks I had to accept: Natural wine is toast.
Reign of Terroir The Natural Philosophy of Cork, A Green BusinessNovember 20thCork versus screw cap. The conversation has gotten quite stale for the wine drinker. And that is because the terms of debate largely revolve around the issue of the preservation of wine alone.
Steve Heimoff Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.November 20thI suppose it’s not particularly original to point out that social media is not the first movement to revolutionize the authoritarian structure of broadcast communication in this country, but the second.
Dr. Vino's wine blog Beyond Thunderdome: on Gary Vee's Wine Library TVNovember 20thWhen Gary Vaynerchuk asked me on the “thunder show” I was afraid. Not of him even though he’s an entrepreneur, wine retailer, dynamo, and internet phenom. No, I was afraid he would make me eat dirt. (As he made Conan do.)
PG BLOG numero unoNovember 20thThe buzz (at least here in Washington) generated by the Spectator's "Wine of the Year" choice is worth at least another post, so here goes. The twin poles of in-state commentary are best represented by the Wine Commission, who put out a predictably chirpy press release, and Jon Rimmerman of Garagiste, whose thoughts closely mirror my own.
Juicy Tales by Jo Diaz Winemaker José Fonseca ~ Enoforum Wines ~ Évora: Alentejo, PortugalNovember 20thSomething I learned at the European Wine Bloggers Conference is that Lisbon hotels are no better than American hotels when it comes to hosting a group of techies. Connectivity with everyone running around with computers is almost non-existent.
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