There’s an ongoing conversation about wine blogger ethics which is regularly brought up at conferences like VinoCamp or every time a government enacts new policies about blogging.  And I just saw some people tweeting about it recently. Ignore this debate My very short answer to this issue is that if you are thinking about starting [...]

I just realized that my long post about how to build the perfect winery website is really very very derivative of a post on the Top 10 Winery Website Mistakes from Catavino dating all the way back to 2007. Catavino’s Top 10 Winery Website Mistakes: Hard to find email address Flash No information about wines [...]

I am going to do a phone interview with Olivier B before publishing an update on the Olivier B story with my personal perspective. After reading Dr. Vino’s post about Olivier B, it has come to my attention that I’d be one of the first to talk about him in English.  That’s pretty weird.  I [...]

The Born Digital Wine Awards have officially announced their submission guidelines and criteria. This is a very exciting award, and I’m so happy to see it moving forward at a healthy pace. One of the coolest parts of the BDWA is that it recognizes individual videos and pieces of writing. That means that the awards [...]

For the Francophones out there, this is my presentation at Le Vin 2.0 where I spoke about developing commerce through social networks.  They wanted me to be sort of living proof that independent winemakers could use Internet tools to develop their commerce. I took the approach that the Internet allows us to publish on any [...]

–This is part of an ongoing series about the European Wine Bloggers’ Conference– I don’t know why I spent so much time talking about wine, keynote speakers and workshops.  What we all want to see is evidence of wildly debaucherous EWBC parties (drinking wine in moderation all the while) and video montages of Michael Cox [...]

Today is a surprise party for BourgogneLive, an exceptionally dynamic web blog that runs on hopes and dreams in the Bourgogne region of France.  If you think I’m insane to spend so much time on the web, you need to meet Aurélien Ibanez and François Desperrier.  They’re not even winemakers.  They’re not even wine merchants.  [...]

–This is part of an ongoing series about the European Wine Bloggers’ Conference– Evan Schnittman spoke to us at the EWBC, sharing a really deep knowledge of the contemporary publishing scene.  I think he gave a really good, succint history of digital publishing and highlighted some of the bigger differences between digital publishing and conventionally [...]

–This is part of an ongoing series about the European Wine Bloggers’ Conference– -David Schildknecht from the Wine Advocate responded to this post here- At the European Wine Bloggers’ Conference in Vienna, Elin McCoy spoke to us all about the future of the Ivory Tower wine critic. It was a keynote so we all got [...]

I am finally back in the comfort of my own winery after a long and wonderful trip to Paris and Vienna.  The European Wine Bloggers’ Conference was an absolute blast.  The word for the week was overwhelming.  Lots of wine, lots of learning, lots of laughing, lots of beauty.  Everything was just wonderful. I guess [...]