The King is Dead, Long Live the King
Great post today by Dr. Vino with a link to a very good summary post by Mike Steinberger on Slate that gives a well written overview of what I've termed the "Parker Kerfuffle". For those not familiar with the specific issue this was a watershed moment in the evolution...
read moreHow Social Media is Changing our World
Here's a great video presentation by Clay Shirky, Prof. at NYU and internet and technology thought leader on how the media landscape has fundamentally changed. What I like about this is his very clear, cogent and simple distillation of the tectonic shift we're...
read moreWine Trade Survey Data Released
I participated in a trade survey recently for which the results were just released at the Wine Industry Financial Symposium in CA. There were some interesting conclusions, none of which were new or surprising, but it is nice to have the stats to evolve opinion to...
read moreKahlua Coffee Cream TDN (Thursday Drink Night)
Last night we held TDN at the Mixoloseum, a chat room of the bloggers, by the bloggers and for the people. About 40 cocktailians convened in cyberspace for an advance taste the new Kahlua Coffee Cream and create and share new drink concepts. For those not familiar...
read moreHello world!
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read moreDo Medals Matter?
Alder Yarrow of Vinography and Tyler Colman of Dr. Vino both posted today disparaging the value of medals from wine competitions based on a study published in the Journal of Wine Economics by Robert Hodgson professor emeritus of oceanography at Humboldt State...
read moreWine vs. Spirits
How come when we taste wine we spit and when we taste spirits we swallow?
read moreTales Presentation: Blogs
Here's a link to the presentation on working with Blogs that I made at Tales of the Cocktail last month in New Orleans on the Panel moderated by Paul Clarke and Bobbie Heugel of Drink Dogma:...
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