Since causing a minor sh*t-storm on Facebook a week ago when I lamented publicly about bad wine PR folks wanting me to “guarantee” reviews of their clients’ wine samples (with responses ranging from “cut them some slack, they have a difficult job” to “screw ‘em, they’re all idiots), I’ve gotten to thinking about the whole…
Category: going pro
The Most Wanted’s 100 Essential Blogs: (Early?) Christmas Edition
Last week, my little old hunk of the global interwebs was named one of the Best Wine Blogs in in the 2011 installment of Most Wanted’s 100 Essential Blogs: Christmas Edition. I’m honored to have been included, because their other blog selections are all great so I find myself dragging down the curve of the…
Are Wine Critics “Wasting” Points On A Wine’s Color?
Well… are they? Some background: Wine critics generally use a 100-point scale when evaluating wines (I know most of you know this, bear with the exposition, people!). I don’t, because I think it implies a level of accuracy in evaluating a moving-target product (that can change within hours in the glass, let alone within years…
Crowdsourcing Taste Buds: Project VinoMatch Bets On The Democratized Wine World For Funding, But Is It A Winning Bet?
Fitting squarely into the “Well, Now This Is Interesting” Department (I just made that department up, because it’s my blog and I can do that sort of thing, after all), I recently received a PR-style email about a new wine search engine called VinoMatch. VinoMatch is not an all-things-wine-related search engine (good thing, too, since…