July 18 2006
Now that I’m back in the saddle here are a couple of blog posts from the last week or so that I found interesting ...
Josh at PinotBlogger is going through the UC Davis Wine Marketing Short Course and sharing his thoughts and notes on the content of the program—this is a really good series of posts and content I would love to get my hands on ... also of interest in a more "pop-culture-sort-of-way" is the fact that Andrew Firestone from Firestone Winery in in the class. Reality tv fans will remember Andrew from his turn as "The Bachelor" a couple of seasons ago. Though, graciously, Josh doesn’t mention that dubious achievement.
Alder at Vinography highlights a looooooooooooong comment thread on eRobertparker about this loon that is peeved because he gets his newsletter a couple of days after other people and he thinks that retailers jack up the prices of the wine as a result and it’s costing him money ... or something like that. He may be right, but call it "analysis/paralysis," "in the weeds," or "forest for the trees syndrome" and this guy is experiencing it. Robert Parker himself weighs in calling him a "points whore." Check out the post at Vinography and then check out the messages.
Twisted Oak Winery, who launched their blog fairly recently, and have a uniquely irreverent style, are offering a standing offer to send a free bottle for review ... to anybody ... they are diligent about shipping, so check out the site and see if they ship to you.
I, apparently, wasn’t the only person struck by Michael Stajer’s suggestion that the wine industry needs a universal database. He has a follow-up post that can be found here. Still, he doesn’t step up to the plate for the project saying that everybody he heard from thought their information was proprietary and he throws the bone out to the general Internet population. It’s a damn good thing Brian Behlendorf, one of the co-developers of the Apache server that runs virtually all web http servers, didn’t think the same thing or we’d all be writing our blogs in Word files to save to our hard drive ...
Hugh from Gapingvoid has a cross-post at the Stormhoek blog site on wine marketing that’s worth a read ... this story continues and while it may be old hat for those that are deeply in tune with the blogosphere, I suspect that it’s preparing to go mainstream. I’m already readying my rally against Stormhoek just as any hipster rails against the underground being co-opted by the man. I’m kidding. Sorta.
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