Good Grape Wine Company

July 28 2006

Around the Wine Blogosphere

I love tying disparate thoughts together; taking ideasfrom one industry and applying them to another industry. Wine is so woven through the fabric of ourhistory and our society that it’s pretty easy to see how influential wine canbe, and, frankly, to note that the wine industry does do a lot of things right—despitecritics hurling Molotov cocktails about how slow to adapt to change the industrycan be.

Forthat reason, I love this post from Andrea Johnston at Inertia Beverage Groupwhere she draws some correlations from her visit to Comic Con in San Diego andcompares it to a wine confab, for example. She lists the following items that comics and wine can have in common:

 1.Revel in your brand identity and proudly display all that it is about in everyform of communication
2. People want to talk to the creators, get them there and have them interact.
3. Connect with new people, leave a great impression of your wine and what itrepresents. A positive experience can only lead to word of mouth referrals.
4. Don’t get lost in the large store or portal without also developing inparallel your independent connection to consumers through the direct channel.

Checkout the post here.

 Mark at Uncorked hit a two-bagger, to use baseballparlance, this week with two excellent posts—one on Wine Sediments thatdetailed a completely decadent wine party where he quaffed down a winedrinker’s dream collection of bottles—including an ‘82 Mouton-Rothschild and an’82 Margaux.

He lives in Dayton, OH and I live in Indianapolis—a meretwo hours apart—I want to start partying with him.

Then,the same day, over on his regular blog he has a great post on theWine Spectator restaurant wine awards complete with a snarky response fromMarvin Shanken, Publisher of WS.

AtPinot Blogger, Josh started his family with the birth of child, and continuesto bring his A-game on his blog with a running first person account of the UCDavis Marketing Short Course and a great post about an open forum for SonomaCounty. He brings the narrative to lifeby describing Jess Jackson of Kendall-Jackson winery. It’s one thing to see the ads with Jess Jackson in Food &Wine magazine every month, but it’s entirely different to get the story of aguy growing in iconic stature where, eventually, he’ll be on the wine MountRushmore with Robert Mondavi.

Good stuff.

EricAsimov at The Pour has a nice post on Lambrusco. To my way of thinking, if I’m hot and looking for somethingrefreshing in the form of wine, I’d rather have a Prosecco or Lambrusco then aRośe—the flavor the day.

Hesays (and I’ve excerpted):

I’vespent the last week packing boxes, weeding through old, once-cherishedpossessions before giving them the heave-ho, and generally gritting my teeth,mentally, physically and psychologically as I prepared for the grueling ordealknown as moving day.

Fulldays of this produce a rare weariness, basted with sweat and grit. It’s not thetime for savoring profound wines or food, just something simple, and maybe evena little joyous … And through it all, Ifound the perfect wine for my spent condition and melancholy-but-optimisticmood: lambrusco.

Yes,lambrusco. Trust me, it’s not what you’re thinking, that sickening, cloyingRiunite stuff from the 1970’s that went out with platform heels.

TheMidwest is full of folks that like semi-sweet wines and I’ve often wonderedwhy no major producer tried to dress up Lambrusco as cool.

Ikeep an eye on a blog that posts Samuel Pepys Diary and I have beensporadically posting excerpts from a public domain book by our wine foundingfather, John James Dufour. Because ofthis, I found Jaime Goode, wine author, and his post on a spoof diary for aGeorge Pooter dating to 1892, worth 5 minutes of diversion. Trust me, it’s decidedly more humorous thenPepys or Dufour. The reference point for the diary can be found here. 

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