Tag Archives: Wine Bloggers Conference

A season of wine conferences: Santa Rosa or Dallas anyone? Lisbon maybe?

By winecase | Published: July 18, 2009
Next Friday, July 24, 2009, the second edition of the Wine Bloggers Conference will get started at the Flamingo Resort in Santa Rosa, California (again). Last year’s inaugural conference was a sold out event, with some 170 participants, and this year is sold out again, at an increased capacity of 250. The conference program brings back [...]
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When Robert Parker can't get his facts (or his ethical guidelines) straight

By winecase | Published: April 26, 2009
I was appalled and incensed, Friday evening, when I read a post by Robert Parker himself on the eRobertParker forum. I don’t often agree with Mr Parker’s taste, but I do have respect for what he’s accomplished and for the energy he’s put into advocating wine. I’ve lost a lot of that respect, now, after an [...]
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American Wine Blog Award winners – and other blogs you should read

By winecase | Published: March 6, 2009
The votes have been tallied, added to the jury’s vote (70% popular vote, 30% jury), and the results are now official. The winners for the 2009 American Wine Blog Awards have been announced. Nice bunch of blogs in that list: Vinography (twice, and a winner for two yars in a row), Lenndevours, The Good Grape, The [...]
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Registration open for North American Wine Bloggers Conference 2009

By winecase | Published: January 28, 2009
2008 was the year the wine bloggers decided to come together. Literally. By meeting in not one, but two conferences: one in Europe (more precisely in the Rioja, in Spain), and one in California, at the Flamingo in Santa Rosa, at the Southern end of the Sonoma Valley (see a whole bunch of blog posts [...]
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Tasting Note: Dr Konstantin Frank 2006 Rkatsiteli, Finger Lakes

By winecase | Published: November 9, 2008
It’s kind of a tribute to the complicated nature of wine distribution in North America that I had to go to California to finally taste a wine from New York’s Finger Lakes, which are only a few hours drive from my home in Quebec. How did that happen? Well, Lenn Thompson, the great defender of New [...]
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