Tag Archives: WBW 55

Blog rankings: what a Wine Blogging Wednesday can do for your blog.

By winecase | Published: April 7, 2009
I got contacted, last week, by the folks at information portal Wikio, asking me if I wanted to have a chance to post an exclusive preview of the new rankings for top food and wine blogs compiled at the end of March. I’d come up over 30 spots since the previous rankings, they said, so [...]
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Wine Blogging Wednesday 55: North vs South – a bipolar roundup

By winecase | Published: March 25, 2009
It’s always fascinating to see the many ways people can interpret a proposition. So what did the participants in the 55th Wine Blogging Wednesday make of this idea of confronting North vs South? From Michigan Riesling to Tasmania Pinot Noir, from Spanish Garnacha to Tennessee Chambourcin, there sure were a lot of possible pairings (and threesomes, [...]
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The sweeter side of things: check out The Tawny Times

By winecase | Published: March 19, 2009
While I’m waiting for the latecomers to Wine Blogging Wednesday 55 to send in their posts, so I can prepare my round-up, I rummaged through my tasting notes from the Salon des vins de Québec, and decided to put a bit of them online… on another blog. But Rémy, you may ask, don’t you have enough [...]
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Wine Blogging Wednesday 55: North vs South, just across the Loire

By winecase | Published: March 18, 2009
The North vs South theme I proposed for Wine Blogging Wednesday provides bloggers with certain guidelines (use the same grapes, so you can compare), but also with a lot of leeway. Thousands of miles of leeway, really. If you wanted, you could pick similar wines from the other side of the world. The antipodes, really. Spanish [...]
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WBW 55 Trial Run: North vs South in Radio-Coteau pinots

By winecase | Published: March 10, 2009
Periodically, I’m grabbed by the urge to pull a bottle out of the cellar, unplanned and by itself, not for a meal or special occasion. That’s how I wound up pulling out a 2005 Savoy pinot noir by Radio-Coteau, Eric Sussman’s winemaking operation in Forestville, California. Sussman, who started Radio-Coteau in 2002, learned the trade in [...]
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