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Wine BLOGs & PodCasts

Whether BLOGging or PodCasting, clear, concise, organized, and well-formatted content wins our endorsement; pleasing design and navigation are bonuses. Sites that parrot mindless dogma, post wine rankings that lack descriptions, ramble off-topic, or where advertising tips the scale over content are to be avoided.

Rather than link to every BLOG and PodCast I find, I'll offer some particularly interesting / worthy options... (since I'm finding less time to surf the web in search of these; PLEASE eMail your own recommendations to: jimlamar--AT--winepros.org)."new". indicates a new entry added at last page update on September 2, 2011

BLOGs(the pre-truncation of "Web Log") are cyber-diaries, personal random thoughts shared regularly with the online world, most centered around themes connected with the blogger's field of employment or passionate hobby. Hundreds are devoted to wine. PodCasts are audio or video files created for experiencing on the web or for downloading to an MP3 player. Requiring more technical sophistication and hardware than BLOGs, this does not mean they offer more sophisticated content.

The idea for the American Wine BLOG Awards began in 2005 with Fermentations publisher Tom Wark. Event management was taken over in 2010 by the Open Wine Consortium.

Wine Blog Watch is Derrick Schneider's very clever aggregation of wine BLOGS that prioritizes daily on the basis of most recently updated.

Wine BLOG Associations

Wine Writers' Circle of Canada

Highly Recommended BLOGs

Fermentations: a Daily Wine BLOG by Tom Wark, employed in public relations in the wine industry. An excellent writer, with analysis and point-of-view comment on wide-ranging industry topics that should interest both insiders and outsiders (see note at the beginning of this category).

Good Wine Under $20 has won several awards for creator Deb Harkness.

Vinography by Alder Yarrow, won 2009 AWBAs for "Best Overall Wine BLOG" and for "Best Wine Writing". The site is full of well-organized info, he is obviously dedicated and prolific, and I enjoy both his stories and his outspoken point-of-view. One criticism: Alder should describe the wines he reviews, not simply assign number scores to them... "9.5/10" may be a good rating, but sounds neither enticing nor appetizing!

Recommended BLOGs

Barley Vine by tedo, seems to have more barley than vine (maybe Texas summers are too hot for wine enjoyment...).

Bigger Than Your Head creator and seasoned wine writer Frederic Koeppel won the 2009 American Wine Blog Award for "Best Wine Reviews BLOG " and "gazes critically at the creating and preparing, the marketing and selling, the truth and the hypocrisy, the issues and the language behind what we eat and drink."

Michel-Schlumberger winery's Benchland BLOG won the 2009 AWBA for "Best Winery BLOG" with contributions from several winery staff.

Good Grape won the 2009 AWBA for "Best Wine BLOG Graphics" for creator Jeff Lefevre.

Lenn Devours author Lenn Thompson won the 2009 AWBA for "Best Single Subject Wine BLOG" for focusing on New York State Wines and features guest writers as well as his personal musings.

"new". Sharron Peterson's self-titled BLOG is new in 2010, has great graphics and seems like one to watch

The Wine Collector, by Steve Bachmann won the 2009 AWBA for "Best Business/Industry Blog"

Through the Walla Walla Grapevine by Catie, a self-professed "wildwallawallawoman" writes mainly about her experiences in and around the Eastern Washington wine scene.

Wine Camp by Craig Camp, who declares his BLOG to be a "points-free zone" has informative articles and an admirable "question authority" tone.

Highly Recommended PodCasts

WineCast.net by Tim Eliot is a BLOG in support of his PodCast discussion of wine generally, along with reviews of specific wines. Tim's site sets the benchmark for what all PodCast support sites should be, with top-notch organization, navigation, and user-friendly details. His podcast is similarly detail-supported, with excellent information (click the info icon from iTunes.icon in iTunes).

Recommended PodCasts

PLEASE eMail recommendations to jimlamar--AT--winepros.org; don't be shy about "tooting your own horn" --- I unfortunately can't spare the time to search out the web generally or casually...

 
 
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