Jancis just did a write up on varietal days (eg Cabernet Day, Grenache Day, Champagne Day) and I’ll admit that it seems like every day of the year might soon have a varietal celebration associated with it. Like patron saints of wine-drinking.  Not just Saint Vincent anymore.
Jancis’ Article on Grape Days
In her article, I pick [...]

Cabernet Day is tomorrow!  September 2nd.  The wines and last minute RSVPs are filing in.
And you can still come too!  I hope a lot of you swing by Domaine O’Vineyards tomorrow starting around 19h00.  We’ll have some stellar wines open.  You can show up earlier, but we’ll put you to work. ;D
For those of you [...]

Does the French government snoop through your wine blog?
Finally a post where I can really flex my paranoia muscle.  But before getting too far ahead of myself, let me say that my answer to the question in the title of this post is “No, the government doesn’t really snoop through your blog, but it CAN [...]

I noticed that Hervé Bizeul has been on a self-reflective flurry, pontificating on what defines a wine blogger’s philosophical imperatives or something. The point is we all wonder what to blog about at some point or another.
I thought it would be funny to share this pie chart that breaks down the content of most [...]

I’m always out there trying to convince Languedoc Roussillon wine people to blog. But sometimes I feel like my proselytizing is a big waste of time. Because outside of a few very devoted winemakers who are taking up the charge to explore the Internet with me, I see very few results. I [...]

I know I talk a lot about how awesome Languedoc Roussillon bloggers are.  But today, I’m gonna link to some folks outside of the region.  Other young winemakers who use video effectively.
Herrenhof – A small family vineyard.  Blogging in German and English.  I feel like this guy is as involved in day to day work [...]

A lot of you probably don’t know this, but my internet handle is mroconnell.  Like Mister O’Connell.  This is an old nickname that goes back to when I was a teenager.  A lot of my friends teased me for acting like an 80 year old man so often.  I had business meetings, taxes, crazy stories [...]

I want to change the way winemakers think about participation in social media. I want them to stop treating twitter and facebook like some alien ritual that just goes against the grain of their character. I need them to start thinking about social media the same way they think about every other kind [...]

Well, the people who find this post through Google are going to be exceptionally disappointed, but I promise it isn’t false advertising.
I recently noticed that the youtube video of me drinking dirt had been featured on a tumblr account called Women & Wine.  Innocently enough, I went to the site to see exactly how the [...]

M6 Ran a historical farce short called Kaamelott recently.  Like a French version of Black Adder or Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  I just stumbled across this video on the French winemaker blog from Chateau des Bachelards.  Some of these characters seem very familiar to me, blaming the poor quality of their wine on [...]