Wine Blog Confessions

Tweet As the 2012 wine blogging season kicked off, three notable wine bloggers weighed in with wine blogosphere predictions, analysis, and reflections.  In the last month, Steve Heimoff, Tom Wark, and Alder Yarrow posted their opinions on the evolution of the wine blogosphere, sustainable wine content creation, and/or why they blog.  I regularly follow these guys because [...]

2011 Wine Highlights Part 2- Wine Community

Tweet When I launched WineZag in 2009, I did it under a founding motto of “wine is a lubricant for human connection that holds no bias.”  The essence of my wine appreciation has always transcended the juice, gravitating to the center of human bonding and relationships that are accelerated by shared wine experiences; either during [...]

Ignoring California Wines: Is Anybody Listening?

Tweet Last week Steve Heimoff published a post called “California Needs To Be Careful It Doesn’t Price Itself Out Of The Market.”  I become confused when I read things like this because the fact of the matter is California violated my personal quality to price ratio (QPR) tolerance more than a decade ago.  For me, [...]

Second Vintage in the Bottle: Another Year of WineZag

Tweet Today marks two years of WineZag and that’s a pretty long time in blog years, I think.  For me, the end of both of those blogging years forced unavoidable reflection and moments of reconsideration for the massive time commitment dedicated to transferring wine experiences into keystrokes.  Truth be told, WineZag is so intertwined in [...]

Week of WineZag: The Round World of Social Media and Wine Blogging

Tweet Wine blogging at WineZag and staying connected in its parallel social networks involves a time and energy commitment yielding grimaces of sympathetic pain and confusion from just about anyone I unveil the details of my dedication to. Except, of course, fellow bloggers and social media mavericks that live in the very round world of [...]