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June 30 2006

Wine Blog Round-Up

I recently did a little wine blog round-up, nearlyimpossible to keep track of by the way, by checking out the Wine Blog Watch andthen corroborating against a couple of other sites that have fairly extensivelists and I came to a count of about 230, more or less. I deleted a lot of sites that hadn’t beenupdated in a couple of months. Then, Iran across a site called Globe of Blogs that included an entire sub-section ofwine-related blogs that seem to be out of the Wine Blog Watch jetstream. 

Wow. There’s a lotof content out there. Not all of it isinteresting and, in general, the folks that likely garner the most traffic arealso producing the most compelling content with the most clearly definedwriting voice. On the whole, though, Ilove it when people are passionate about something and commit to beingproactive, so in that sense it’s a win for wine because the industry itself isnotoriously reactive. 

Iread feeds everyday, but just like reading a newspaper, sometimes you cultivatea pattern … front page, sports, comics, entertainment, metro … done. Just the same, I read Vinography, WineSediments (and my fellow writers’ blogs), Dr. Vino and 15 or so others everydayor so …

However,through this process, I got caught up on over 1200 posts in my reader from wineblogs that get read less frequently.

I’mgoing to update my blogroll here shortly, but in the meantime, here’s are acouple of the items (in no order whatsoever) that I clipped in my Bloglines RSSviewer:

Michael Stajer

Michael’ssort of a feisty chap by writing style and the CEO of the company WineCommune and here he writes on the need for auniversal wine database—interesting in that I doubt this will happen in thenear future. But, and a big but, otherindustries have somehow done this—witness the way that your music CD isrecognized by your computer and the album art and song titles appear. Though, that may be encoding on the CD. 

http://www.michaelstajer.com/2006/06/open-source-in-online-wine.html

San Francisco Chronicle

Top10 Wine Movies of all time. Not at areabout wine—just that wine is a noticeable prop in many.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/22/WIG4KJH9L11.DTL&feed=rss.wine

Stormhoek Winery

Inthis must-read blog post Jason Korman talks about preserving wine by freezingit—he’s under the impression that the wine is no worse for the wear, or deepfreeze.

http://www.stormhoek.com/archives/2006/06/how_to_preserve.php

Vinography

Anunintentional companion piece to the Stormhoek freezing post is Alder’s post onweird wine questions and using the ‘ol microwave.

http://www.vinography.com/archives/2006/06/wierd_wine_questions.html

Wine Science News

Thisarticle, clipped from Winebusiness.com talks about the Tupperware of wine—inhome tastings. A concept whose time hascome? 

http://www.winesciencenews.com/r/id/11513675517590

Wine Whines

Here’sa very good post on wine aromas and their origination

http://blog.wineeducation.com/2006/06/where-do-all-those-nifty-flavors-come.html

All in all, somepeople are doing some interesting things with their blogs. On the whole, a lot of blogs (myselfincluded) could do a better job of the conversation aspect of blogging, asopposed to taking the linear information route, but I see wine blogging ascontinuing to develop as a communication medium and I’m still looking for thatone wine layperson to break down the 4^th wall of wine media and gomainstream. 

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