Wine Information

Every Wine Tasting Note Site Should Be Freebasing!

Can you guess what’s wrong with tasting note web sites? Exactly, none (and I mean N-O-N-E) have reached anything close to critical mass of users to make their notes useful. Why is that? Well there are too many wines every year to have multiple reviews per wine.

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18Jan2008 | Joel | 15 comments | Continued

Wine Life Today glitch is over

Just an update to that last post. We’ve found and fixed the problem. This was all backend issues. The database upgrade meant to improve speed and access actually changed a very subtle object that in t…

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10Jan2008 | Joel | 0 comments | Continued

WLT Tech issues being worked on…

Hi, quick message for everyone. Our Hosting provider did an unexpected “upgrade”. This is causing conflicts with the site. We are working to resolve it and will get back to online soon.
WLT Team
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10Jan2008 | Joel | 0 comments | Continued

Wine Life Today (WLT) - Viva La Revolution!

On to Wine Life Today. The mission of Wine Life Today (the working version) is as follows:

To provide a medium and community for independent wine publishers to grow and to create an environment that allows true talent to thrive as part of the global conversation around wine.

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8Jan2008 | Joel | 0 comments | Continued

Wine Blogging Mega-merger Announced!

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Jan. 3, 2008 - In a stock transaction valued at $300 million dollars, Wine Life Today has announced its intention to acquire Vivi’s Wine Journal and all its assets. Upon hearing the news, stock in Wine Spectator dropped 34% on speculation that the combined entities are a signal of a more significant Wine 2.0 push in 2008….

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3Jan2008 | Joel | 2 comments | Continued

Wine Searcher, Snooth looking over their shoulders?

What’s this? Is Wine Spectator getting into the search business? It seems they are. I’ll queue up a video presentation on what I find in the site but I got (through my paid account) a message about searching retailers at the new Wine Spectator Trading Post (paid account needed).

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25Oct2007 | Joel | 0 comments | Continued

2002 Super T Rex from Deerfield Ranch

Nice wine but a little high priced for everyday drinking @ $40. Regardless, I highly recommend it.

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4Oct2007 | Joel | 0 comments | Continued

vReview #2 - Winespies.com

Second edition of Wine website video reviews – what I’ll call vReviews for short – comes with my first impressions of Wine Spies. Wine Spies contacted me to see if I would review their site. Here is a First Impression review – a review no longer than 5 minutes to give my raw, […]

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28Sep2007 | Joel | 0 comments | Continued

Snooth - lets take a look

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27Sep2007 | Joel | Comments Off | Continued

Marketing in Wine 2.0 World - A Whole New Way to SPAM?

Well, I’m seeing a light at the end of the tunnel with my myriad of projects so I thought I’d post a little bit on a topic I’ve been thinking about for a few weeks. I guess I’ve noticed a subtle but disturbing trend
in the world of Wine 2.0. We are just starting to chip away at the social networking technology world as it
relates to wine (we’ve even got the cool moniker of Wine 2.0 to describe these tools) and it really does open up alot of exciting possibilities particularly if you’re a techie marketing person like me.