Once again, I’m partnering with the venerable Zinfandel Advocates and Producers (ZAP) to get tickets to the next ZAP festival into your hands (for free)! In what will be one of the biggest giveaways ever conducted on 1WD, TWO lucky randomly-chosen readers will each receive four event tickets for some of the ZAP 2012 shindigs…
Category: wine industry events
Down With The Gatekeepers, Up With The Long Tail
A friend of mine, that talented writer David White, recently gave a speech at the 2011 Nederburg Auction in South Africa. The title of the talk: “The End of the Gatekeeper: How The Online Revolution is Revolutionizing Wine.” Forgiving the potential redundancy in the title (a revolution does have to revolutionize something, by definition, at…
Not Much Gold In Them Thar Hills (Inside The 2011 Lake County Wine Awards, Part Three)
[ This is part three of a short series covering my tenure as a judge in the 2011 Lake County Wine Competition – for more details, check out Part The First and Part The Second. ] The Gold Rush in California dried up more-or-less 150 years ago. And the 2011 Lake County Wine Awards results…
What I Learned At Summer Wine Judging Camp (Inside The 2011 Lake County Wine Awards, Part One)
A little over a week ago I helped to judge the 2011 Lake County Wine Awards Competition, which was held at Brassfield Estate Winery in the ludicrously-beautiful Clearlake Oaks area. Over 180 wines carrying the Lake County AVA on their labels were submitted to the competition. While I’m well-past the “cutting teeth” stage of judging…