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Palate Press: The Online Wine Magazine by Bloggers

Editor's Note: Palate Press is an online magazine that features wine writers from all walks of life. From citizen bloggers to big wig writers, it's packed with stories from wines across the globe. What's unique about PP is its editorial process. Bloggers are an independent bunch and tend to stay clear from someone telling them what stays or goes before publication. Therefore, the mere hint of an editor is typically shunned before the 3 syllables escape one's lips. Yet PP has thrived with its editorial review, allowing any writer to submit their article as long as they're open to editorial criticism. We want to congratulate founder, David Honig, and his crew for putting in the hard work, sweat and elbow grease it's taken to get this ...

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

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3rd annual Flickr Group: Wine Harvest 2009

Are you, or your fellow wineries, currently working the harvest? If so, we want your photos! If you have any pictures of the harvest, whether that be from picking the grapes to driving the tractor, please share your experiences with us at: Wine Harvest 2009! This group is not reserved to one side of the world or another. This is an equal opportunity photo group, regardless if you're making ice wine in Canada, Tempranillo in Spain, Carmenère in Chile or Shiraz in South Africa. Let your fellow wine aficionados share in the fun and post your pictures today! Also make sure to check out the discussion forum there. If your a wine maker, please leave a comment about what your harvest is shaping up to!

The Necessary Tension between Public Relations and Bloggers: A Second Look at the Conversation

writing-a-blog-postEditor's Note: Yesterday, Rob Bralow of the "Wine Post"  published a piece that was both compelling and thoughtful, discussing the merits of having a little tete-a-tete between both old and new media. As a result, we asked Rob if we could re-post his piece here, allowing wine bloggers  far and wide to contribute to the conversation. Please chime in with your perspective in comments! After the 2009 Wine Bloggers' Conference, there were many bloggers who felt that too many public relations and marketing representatives were there. Not only were they there, but they were there to watch. Megan (Wannabe Wino) wrote in her post "In the Fishbowl": "Have you ever felt like a goldfish? It's quite interesting really. I think the focus of the conference this year seemed to skew more towards wineries, PR folks, and other industry types. ...

EWBC is Filling Up and 2010 WBC is Gearing Up Too! – Win a Trip!

OWC is again organizing the annual Wine Bloggers' Conference.  The WBC is a global event with the EWBC fall conference in Lisbon, Portugal and the Spring AWBC event in 2010 in Walla Walla, Washington.  Information for attending and sponsoring can be found at http://www.winebloggersconference.org/america and http://www.winebloggersconference.org/europe . The AWBC has teamed with the Wine Future Conference (http://www.winefuture.es/) and with "The Golden Mile Wineries" of Ribera del Duero in Spain to give away a FREE all-expenses-paid trip to Spain to attend WineFuture Conference for one person who is registered for the Spring conference in Walla Walla by August 31. Register for it here. Included are 2 nights in Ribera Del Duero visiting wineries, and two nights in Logroño, La Rioja attending the conference. All flights are also included and you are guaranteed to have a good time! So you have 4 more days to make sure ...

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

palate2David 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. ...

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 ...

Almost 1,000 Active Wine Blogs Have Been Registered!

Having just come back from the American Wine Bloggers Conference held in Santa Rosa, California, where wine bloggers across North America gathered together in an effort to better both the wine blogging field and the wine trade in general, it is with great pride that we announce our growing numbers. To date, we have reached 952 wine blogs, ranging in style, location, type and subject matter. As you will readily see, almost half of all blogs registered on Wineblogger.info are written in English. And of those, Regional and General Wine blogs take center stage with approximately 200 sites registered. Interestingly, blogs written in French are the second most registered wine blogs, yet seem to be the least represented in major wine networks like the European Wine Bloggers Conference and the Open Wine Consortium. What ...

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 ...

Wine Bloggers – One shoe does “not” fit all

Wine Blogger Logo 500pxA bit of crowd sourcing for today. I have a question. With all this talk of ethics, and what a wine bloggers should be, I've wanted to begin the process of sorting out who wine bloggers really are. I say this because it's naive and silly to assume that all wine bloggers are created equal and therefore, should be held to the same standards. Should a Winery Blogger be just as objective as a Wine blog that rates wines? No, I'm pretty sure we can agree on that. What about a blog like Catavino.net where we do not rate wines? We do talk about wines we like, and we do try to disclose possible conflicts of interest, but we are not giving out points to wines in an ...

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