How do you feel about being aggregated? I know how I do…
I just got another Dear Jo Email that touched on a wine blogging subject. Here’s the question: Hi Jo, I need to know what you know about a European website Polskiewinnice.eu. I have found all my post and many other wine blog posts copied and posted on this site. I am listed as a contributor [...]
Lisboa ~ I Was Visiting a Monastery and a Play Broke Out
The Play AUTO DA BARCA DO INFERNO (1517) by Gil Vicente (B.1470-D.1537, approximated) The author is acknowledged as the Portuguese theater pioneer, and was a contemporary of King D. Manuel I. Vicente most certainly accompanied the initial phase of the monastery’s construction. (I have written about Manueline architecture. The Jerónimos Monastery is part of that [...]
Scoring the Scores ~ PS at Hess Collection with Alacia Van’s Jazz on April 19
The Terroir of Senses, just add a little music… and off we go, Scoring the Scores. Who are part of the “We” process? Alphabetically: Dan Berger, Vintage Experiences, who has always been passionate about Petite Steve Heimoff, Wine Enthusiast, who credits me for turning him onto Petite, because it had escaped him for a while [...]
Fallow the Yellow Brink Road at Trefethen on April Fool’s Day
What a great marketing effort by Trefethen. First of all, who doesn’t love to get packages in the mail? Secondly, who doesn’t love a practical joke? Thirdly… We’re all headed toward April Fool’s day, and Trefethen has just nailed it! In an effort to get my attention, they sent their new release to me… A [...]
Weighing in on the Tanzer Wine Blog “About” Page Debacle
If you don’t know, Stephen Tanzer ~ one of the world’s most well respected wine writers ~ just launched a wine blog called Winophilia. Unfortunately, he unwittingly did it with his boxing gloves on. I say unwittingly, because he hadn’t yet jumped into the wine blogging pool, so he didn’t know who the swimmers of [...]
French Tour Company Options for Bordeaux and the South of France
This blog is just opening so many doors… Tours in France? How luscious is that? Here are two that have come to me, and I researched on line… Not in person, yet, but that’s likely to happen. Just as an FYI – AIR TRANSPORT is not included with either of these tour companies. 1) The Bordeaux [...]
When Irish Wines Are Smiling
It just had to happen. In 2002, when I organized and started not only PS I Love You, but also started the Association of African American Vintners, I was thinking about starting an Irish American Vintners Association. It just made sense to me. Concannon Vineyard was/is a client of Diaz Communications. (Although I’m no longer [...]
