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Wine Blogger Resource: Helpawinery.com

wine-guyWine bloggers, more importantly, American Wine Bloggers, are you getting wine samples? Most likely there is a mixed bag of both "yes" and "no" responses. Well, if you're interested in receiving samples, Josh over at the infamous Pinot Blogger has a new service called, Helpawinery.com, that connects wineries with wine bloggers interested in reviewing wines. Here's how it works: You sign up for the list, and soon after you'll start to receive emails with offers of wine samples from various wineries. The offers will be based on the types of wines you prefer to review, or the geographical area you specialize in. I had a chance to talk to Josh a bit about it when I was at the WBC last month, and I have to say, it's a great idea. I also talked to him about how it could be ...

What Constitutes “The Best Wine Blog”?

How does someone judge a wine blog? How does one assess what constitutes the “best”, “the most creative” or “the most popular or social” blog? Are there certain criteria I should abide by, tools I should be aware of, or even a base knowledge of should have in order to be a fair and an objective judge? This was the central question we struggled with at 10am yesterday morning as we judged 18 non-commercial Catalan wine blogs in the first ever DO Catalunya Wine Blog Competition. Five judges comprised of two Internet wine marketers, Ryan and I (counting as 1 vote); the President of the Catalan Association of Sommeliers; a freelance programmer from Barcelona; the Director of DO Catalunya; and a gentleman from INCAVI, who casted his vote previous ...

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