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Date: Fri, Jun 25, 2010 Wine Tasting Wine Business

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Best Wine Blog Posts for November 16th through December 31st

Date: Sun, Jan 3, 2010 Wine Tasting Wine Business

Best of the wine blogosphere for November 16th through December 31st: An Opaz/Catavino Christmas Letter – A Year in Review Wine Blogging Wednesday #64: The Wrapup The top 10 wine things we need less of in 2010 Field Notes from a Wine Life – Year End Edition What Wine Blogging Needs Winemaker to watch: Steve Matthiasson Yet Another Wine Column Casualty in [...]

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Best Wine Blog Posts for November 16th through December 31st

Date: Sun, Jan 3, 2010 Wine Tasting Wine Business

Best of the wine blogosphere for November 16th through December 31st: An Opaz/Catavino Christmas Letter – A Year in Review Wine Blogging Wednesday #64: The Wrapup The top 10 wine things we need less of in 2010 Field Notes from a Wine Life – Year End Edition What Wine Blogging Needs Winemaker to watch: Steve Matthiasson Yet Another Wine Column Casualty in [...]

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My Wine Predictions for 2010

Date: Sat, Jan 2, 2010 Wine Tasting Wine Business

Despite my fairly checkered past in making predictions for the coming year, I am back with another batch. I think 2010 will be a transformative year for the wine business and for wine blogging. The economy will show improvement by the summer which will reverse the “nuclear winter” we have seen for the sales of [...]

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My Wine Predictions for 2010

Date: Sat, Jan 2, 2010 Wine Tasting Wine Business

Despite my fairly checkered past in making predictions for the coming year, I am back with another batch. I think 2010 will be a transformative year for the wine business and for wine blogging. The economy will show improvement by the summer which will reverse the “nuclear winter” we have seen for the sales of [...]

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Rodney Strong, Rockaway Cabernet Sauvignon 2006

Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2010 Wine Tasting Wine Business

I’m not sure where to start with this wine since my review of the previous vintage became the subject for the first wine blogger meltdown ever last year. I even thought of not posting a review due to this experience but my curiosity got the better of me and I had to see what the [...]

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Rodney Strong, Rockaway Cabernet Sauvignon 2006

Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2010 Wine Tasting Wine Business

I’m not sure where to start with this wine since my review of the previous vintage became the subject for the first wine blogger meltdown ever last year. I even thought of not posting a review due to this experience but my curiosity got the better of me and I had to see what the [...]

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Looking Back at 2009

Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2010 Wine Tasting Wine Business

Image by spratmackrel via Flickr Although some folks don’t care for such prognostication, I posted six predictions 365 days ago for 2009. Before I post a new set for 2010, I thought I would revisit this post and see how close I came to foretelling what might happen last year in the wine world: The Year of [...]

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Looking Back at 2009

Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2010 Wine Tasting Wine Business

Image by spratmackrel via Flickr Although some folks don’t care for such prognostication, I posted six predictions 365 days ago for 2009. Before I post a new set for 2010, I thought I would revisit this post and see how close I came to foretelling what might happen last year in the wine world: The Year of [...]

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Winecast 76 – Merlove

Date: Sun, Dec 20, 2009 Wine Tasting Wine Business

Five years and one day after I started this blog and podcast I get back behind the mic and restart regular podcasting. This episode features an interview with Rudy McClain, the filmmaker of the documentary Merlove. I also pick three Merlot wines from my tasting log for review. Show Notes: 00:30 – Welcome and show theme 02:22 – [...]

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Winecast 76 – Merlove

Date: Sun, Dec 20, 2009 Wine Tasting Wine Business

Five years and one day after I started this blog and podcast I get back behind the mic and restart regular podcasting. This episode features an interview with Rudy McClain, the filmmaker of the documentary Merlove. I also pick three Merlot wines from my tasting log for review. Show Notes: 00:30 – Welcome and show theme 02:22 – [...]

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C. Donatiello Winery, Chardonnay 2006

Date: Tue, Dec 1, 2009 Wine Tasting Wine Business

At the beginning of June I wrote a post in response to Pinotblogger Josh Hermsmeyer’s wine blogger contest. Basically, Josh challenged us to write about what motivates us to blog and if the role of a wine reviewer is to prescribe the ways in which a wine should be made or just write about what’s [...]

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C. Donatiello Winery, Chardonnay 2006

Date: Tue, Dec 1, 2009 Wine Tasting Wine Business

At the beginning of June I wrote a post in response to Pinotblogger Josh Hermsmeyer’s wine blogger contest. Basically, Josh challenged us to write about what motivates us to blog and if the role of a wine reviewer is to prescribe the ways in which a wine should be made or just write about what’s [...]

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Pax Cellars, Syrah, Alder Springs 2005

Date: Tue, Nov 17, 2009 Wine Tasting Wine Business

I have blogged and podcasted several notes for Pax Cellars Syrah over the years so I was looking forward to revisiting this producer for my birthday dinner last night. The producer has been in a state of flux over the past year or so with winemaker Pax Mahle leaving in the summer of 2008 but [...]

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