In Steve Heimoff’s most recent post regarding the controversy surrounding Robert Parker’s independent consultants (you can read the Wall Street Journal article on it here) he writes these words: Look, folks. Every wine writer with any influence or connections has partaken of gourmet meals for free. Every wine writer with any influence or connections has [...]
September 14, 2007
Congrats to Mary Baker at Dover Canyon on a great write-up in BusinessWeek. Mary is, hands down, the best winery writer out there. Her posts are detailed, authentic and beautifully written. In other words she has real talent. Like her other readers I just wish she had more time to write. As far as the [...]
August 16, 2007
Here’s another winery blog for your list Mike! I met Morgan Twain-Peterson almost exactly a year ago at the OIV Wine Marketing course at Davis, just before my son was born. We hit it off immediately. We sat in the very back of the class and talked about the industry almost as much as we [...]
June 21, 2007
bordering on poetry over at El Bloggo Torcido. Tell me what you ate with the wine. Tell me how the wine made you feel. Tell me how it smelled. Tell me what memories the wine evoked. Tell me what senses were engaged. Tell me what flavors excited you. Tell me how it connected you with [...]
June 15, 2007
The article in the SF Chronicle today by W. Blake Gray does a good job of explaining the dynamics of an industry driven by recommendations. It also does a good job of pointing out what can happen when a handful of gatekeepers serve as the main source of those recommendations. But sentiments like this irk [...]
May 26, 2009
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