Actively Seeking International Winebloggers to Contribute to Palate Press, An Online Wine Magazine

David Honig began his blogging career in politics and political cartoons. After suffering through eight years of the Bush Administration, he decided it was time to relax with a nice glass of wine. 2 Days per Bottle, his first wine blog, explores wines over two days to get an idea of its cellar life and drinking window. Soon he started to notice variations in wine scores, particularly in the cluster around one particular score, and the group blog The 89 Project was born. As he got more involved with the wine blogging world David noticed that there was a tremendous amount of knowledge and talent, but it was spread so thinly across the internet that terrific content often disappeared before anybody noticed it.

PALATE PRESS: The online wine magazine, launches this September. PALATE PRESS is an experiment in the next generation of wine blogging.  The hypothesis is simple- collecting the very best of the wine blogosphere and carefully editing and publishing it will create a top quality and commercially viable online wine magazine.  The experiment is well under way, preparing to launch with some of the most talented and best-known wine writers on the internet, including Deb “Dr. Debs” Harkness, of Good Wine Under $20, Lenn Thompson (LENNDEVOURS), Jeff Lefevere (GOOD GRAPE: A Wine Blog Manifesto), and Hardy Wallace (Dirty South Wine). Other Editors and Contributors from the world’s top 100 wine blogs include Gabriella Opaz (Catavino), Richard Auffrey (Passionate Foodie), Michelle Lentz (My Wine Education), Russ Beebe (Winehiker Witiculture), Joe Roberts (1 Wine Dude), Craig Camp (Wine Camp), Kori Voorhees (Wine Peeps), Andrew Barrow (Spittoon), Remy Charest (The Wine Case), “Sonadora” (Wannabe Wino), Ken Payton (Reign of Terroir), and Tim Elliot (Wine Cast).

PALATE PRESS: The online wine magazine will launch with a solid core of writers, but that is only the beginning. If wine bloggers are willing to participate, PALATE PRESS can have a staff larger than every wine magazine in the world put together. Wine bloggers are everywhere. Where there is a wine story, there is a wine blogger to write about it. Did drought and wildfire effect wines in Australia? There are wine bloggers there to write about it. Is there controversy about St. Emilion classifications?  There are wine bloggers following the story. PALATE PRESS accepts, indeed it quite actively desires, submissions from wine bloggers around the world. Wine bloggers interested in considering assignments for specific stories, or who have story ideas they want to submit, should send them to submissions@palatepress.com.