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April 25 2008

Vin de Napkin - Hunting Down the Apple Moth

Inspired by the sometimes funny and blind eye that is turned to the various components in the wine supply chain.

I should note that I am not educated enough to have a stance on the issue of immigration other than an observation on our ability to focus on what is important to $$ and cents in business.

This article notes a single apple moth caught in Sonoma county.

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April 24 2008

Vin de Napkin - Frankenwine vs. Spoofulation

Inspired by this article

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April 16 2008

Vin de Napkin: I’m all a Twitter

Dateline: March 21, 2007: Tim from Winecast starts using Twitter and I profess not to “get it” in our podcast Unfiltered # 3

Dateline: Late summer of 2007: Wine bloggers descend en masse on Facebook.com

Dateline: Mid-February 2008: Wine bloggers flee Facebook.com for the Open Wine Consortium

Dateline: February 29, 2008: Hugh from Gapingvoid.com says:
Yesterday, I joked on Twitter, “Note to World: If you’re not on Twitter, I don’t want to make friends with you.” Like all humor, there is some truth to it. I find people who use Twitter much easier to communicate with, than with people who don’t. As a result, Twitter has become the main engine I use these days for cultivating my social network.

Dateline: April 1, 2008: Tim from Winecast and I do a podcast, Unfiltered 8, and I still don’t get Twitter

Dateline: April 8, 2008: Tom from Fermentation jumps in the Twitter pool

Dateline: April 10, 2008: Hugh from Gapingvoid.com closes his Twitter account

Dateline: April 13, 2007: Tyler from Dr. Vino announces his social networking handles, including Twitter

Dateline: April 16, 2007: Out of defiant iconoclasm, I now refuse to even begin using Twitter, stopping just short of mocking that which I do not understand; electing not to participate in an activity that has been called “the crack cocaine of social media.”

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April 8 2008

Vin de Napkin

When I first started this blog, I did rudimentary cartoons that were intended to be something of the wine blog equivalent to a political cartoon--more observationally piquant than rib-tickling. I had a lot of fun with these, but when I re-designed my site, I also intended to up the ante on the cartoons, which I had dubbed “New World.” I, in fact, did do that with a stud illustrator who knocked it out of the park in terms of providing quality illustrations that I could assemble, but I kind of lost my joie de vivre for it once the output had the capability to be polished. I can turn loose illustrations that are awesome, and I use some of them in my wine reviews and they may appear in other forms in the future, but I’m going back to rudimentary way.

I’ve re-titled these little vignettes as “Vin de Napkin.” Before anybody accuses me of being an ugly American, yes, I know it doesn’t translate to French. But, you get what it is. It’s the equivalent of a back of napkin drawing.

I won’t belabor the point, but thinking about writing a post in 500 words or so and thinking about doing “back of napkin” punditry is two different animals and I’m looking forward to re-calibrating the brain into the occasionally shorter form.

That said, and background provided, thanks for checking out the site.

Inspired by this article and this post at Fermentation:

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