I first found out about Soléna Estate wines from my blogger friend Ryan Reichert, (@oenoblog)when he moved to Oregon to start his new career in the wine industry. Through Ryan, I was introduced to Lynnette Shaw, the tasting room manager at Soléna. When Lynnette was in San Francisco for the Chronicle Wine Competition Grand Tasting, we got [...]
Bloggers, media, journalists, TV reporters, wine critics, mom. Can’t we all just get along? I know that there are a lot of shills out there, and there has been a lot of controversy in the Mommy Blogger arena about posting for peanuts, or in their case products, but the recent FTC ruling regarding bloggers really [...]
ZAP, the Zinfandel Advocates & Producers trade organization, is dedicated to advancing public knowledge of and appreciation for American Zinfandel. Next week marks its 18th annual festival, a weeklong celebration of Zinfandel themeed events.
Being the Zinner that I am, I look forward to this event every year. I also am a volunteer, so I have [...]
A few months ago, I was introduced to
at the Wine 2.0 event at Crushpad.
Mapovino is a wine-mapping website incorporating GoogleMaps to showcase geographically distinct wines and the stories behind these wines.
Why is this cool? Because it allows you my technonarti friends, to use Google Maps, a tool most of [...]