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Robert Parker on the Future of Wine – Wine Future Conference, Rioja, Spain

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The Web Should be Something Different – Repost and Request for Your Thoughts

Editor's Note: Back in 2007 I posted this post on WineBlogAtlas.com where it quickly spread and was linked too many times, and commented on by many bloggers. I recently revisited it and though that it deserved a re-post, and some additions/updates. But after thinking about it for awhile I decided that the best thing I can do is to re-post it here, and to invite all of you to please tell us what you think has changed, or if anyone is really doing any different today, as compared with 2 years ago. There are some obvious bits that are out of date, and today probably considered silly, but it is fun to look at what was on our minds back then. Please leave examples in the comments, but better yet explain why those examples are important. Alternately please tell us what has yet to change. The Web Should be ...

The People’s Wine Press

revolutionary war and wineHave you ever found a quote that completely and utterly summed up a feeling that you've had but you couldn't necessarily put it into words? After Robert Parker's crack at the wine blogging industry last week, I've had a ball of frustration inside me sitting idle without the appropriate words to describe its composition. Sticky, thick and irrational, I felt bound by my nervous system, encapsulating my logic, until now. Over the past few weeks, I've been enthralled by Jeff Shaara's book, "Rise to Rebellion", giving words, feelings and much needed context to a war I vaguely understood in high school textbooks: The Revolutionary War. Nearing the end of the book, Benjamin Franklin, physically worn from years of fighting an uphill intellectual battle over the freedom of the colonists  from English ...

Wine Bloggers Have No Credibility

Now that I have your attention, allow me to pose a question to you: what is this credibility problem with wine bloggers that everyone seems to be talking about? I'm asking because I know of very few instances of wine bloggers seriously doing anything "un-credible", and even less of them doing anything "incredible". Our strength comes from our numbers and the fact that we are all wine drinkers who have today a platform to share out thoughts, not because as individuals, we're doing anything THAT amazing. With over 1,000 wine blogs updating at regular intervals, only about 10 draw any interest for me personally. These 10 blogs talk about wines I can purchase, issues that matter to me, and display good, solid ethics. There are no Robert Parkers of the wine blogging world, and most likely, there never will be. There are too many of us, with too many voices, ...

No More Predictions – Top 10 Things that WON’T Happen in the Online Wine World in 2009

Instrumental temperature record of the last 15... Image via Wikipedia I'm sick of it! Amateur prognosticators trying to tell us what trends to look for in 2009 when it comes to wine, the internet and social media. In then end, almost everyone starts out, "Well, last year I had almost none of my predictions come true, but I'll try again..." Do us a favor, and don't. That said, I can tell you one thing: what won't happen this year! Or rather, I'll place odds of 10 to 1 on any of the following items actually occurring. Seeing that we're here in Spain, I can guarantee that Spanish wineries will not move away from FLASH web design in favor of something useful, ...

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