Here we go again. I don’t know why wine writing icons feel compelled lately to disparage wine bloggers as a whole, but it seems that the venerable Anthony dias Blue is joining Robert Parker in painting all wine bloggers with an overly broad and negative brush. As in the case of Parker’s blogger diatribe, by…
Category: wine blogging
Will Work for Wine (Alice Feiring & Who Really Killed Wine Writing)
It’s no secret that writing, as a paid vocation – whether about wine or any other subject – is a becoming a bit of an endangered species. Never has this situation been so acute as it has in today’s economy, which is utterly dreadful for all of us except for maybe the 4 people out…
Wine Blog of the Month (Also, I Rule the Future of Wine Criticism! WTF?)
Things are coming up ‘Dude’ in the month of June! Friend of the Dude RJ has listed 1WineDude.com as it’s Wine Blog of the Month over at RJ’s Wine Blog! Here’s what RJ had to say about selecting the blog: “1WineDude is a perennial presence in the wine world and someone who always has something…
A (Few) Thousand Words: Wine Journeys in Pictures
I find it interesting that the advent of alternative media formats, like blogging, have not only enabled millions to publish by removing barriers to entry, but have also forced those same would-be self-publishers into a strange situation. That is they’re not just reporting, writing, and publishing. They’re also editing, formatting layout work in terms of…