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.
REthink Wine Blog Animal Wine LabelsOctober 8thIf you think you’ve been noticing more and more animals on wine labels over the past several years, it’s not just your imagination. According to a study by market research firm ACNielsen, approximately one out of every five table wine brands introduced features an animal on the label.
Steve Heimoff How can we get distributors and other wine buyers to get beyond their 90-point obsession?October 8thI got an email the other day from a winery representative who complained about some of my scores. “The last 4 months of reviews have been in the low 80’s and we have been getting much higher scores from wine competitions and other publications for the same vintages of wines,”
the person wrote...
Jamie Goode's Wine Blog Closures: managing riskOctober 8thOK, some thinking out loud about closure choice. In some ways, it's a question of managing risk. There are a range of trade-offs, because there is no perfect closure at present.
JancisRobinson.com - fine writing on fine wines Ontario's plans re Cellared in CanadaOctober 8thAs reported in Canadian giants start to clean up, progress is being made on the other side of the country in British Columbia too:
Vinography Bond Estates, Napa: A Retrospective TastingOctober 8thLike the saying goes, if I had a nickel for every time I'd heard or read about a winery "sparing no expense" to get the "best possible fruit" to make the "best wine they could," I'd be a rich man.
Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog Finding Your Wine HappyTalk: CruveeOctober 8thThere are MANY on-line media monitoring sites out there and ready for your use. But if you are in the wine industry and need to monitor wine-related on-line media, then Cruvee is built for you.
UNFILTERED: the official Napa Valley harvest blog Cabernet Harvest at Quintessa 10-14 days Behind NormalOctober 8thIt's the first week in October and we have finally picked our early Cabernets - mostly from the estate's south and southwest facing hillsides - Dragon's Terrace, Riviera Sur, and South Terrace blocks.
Juicy Tales by Jo Diaz Wine Writers of MeritOctober 8thPlease consider this list below as a resource for anyone needing to share who a certain wine writer might be. Within their answers, there’s much to be gleaned from this amazing group of resources.
PG BLOG best of the okanaganOctober 8thThe official judging for the Okanagan Fall Wine Festival wrapped up yesterday, and for the first and only time, all eight judges sat together and tasted.
Since I'm not particularly afraid of tannin in my wine (and I don't have to sell it to appease a common-denominator palate) and the aromatics speak for themselves, it's an easy decision.
"Let's go for it," I say. Kevin grins. Yeah, he knew.
Blogs That Rate Wine
Our editors have selected their favorite blogs that rate wine. You can use the search function
to see if anyone is talking about your wine. You can search for the wines you're interested
in or the regions.
Search Wine Ratings:
WINERY BLOG SITES
Winery Blogs
Thinking about starting a blog for your winery? Interested in seeing what other wineries
are doing? See our editor's picks of the best winery blogs.
BLOG ROLL
Blogs Monitored by Our Editors
A complete listing of all the blogs monitored on a daily basis. Click on the above link
to get more description for each blog site, or if you know where you want to go, click
on the blog below.