http://www.winelog.net/blog Stay up-to-date on wine news and WineLog development. Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:29:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A little while back I was given the chance to attend a very special gathering of established winemaker luminaries and taste a whole slew of outstanding wines, courtesy of a very gracious invite by Monica Collins of All Access Napa Valley.  I've never seen such a lineup of All-Star winemakers, ... http://www.winelog.net/blog/2009/06/24/acme-atelier-tasting-an-assembly-of-all-stars/ It takes a lot to make us who we are.  Genetics, environments and most importantly, people help shape the person that we become as we continue to get older.  I have been blessed with a number of good, warm people that have surrounded me as I stumble through this life.  ... http://www.winelog.net/blog/2009/06/20/a-toast-to-pops/ Another exciting wine festival is coming to Fort Mason this month and I'm very excited to have to have the opportunity to get the inside scoop from the festival Director.  Pinot Days San Francisco crushes SF with five days of great, varietally-correct Pinot Noir festivities, starting on June 24th.  Lisa ... http://www.winelog.net/blog/2009/06/17/5-questions-with-lisa-rigisich-of-pinot-days-sf/ While bouncing around Twitter one day, I was turned on to a new-fangled wine search engine site by the incomparable Lisa Adams Walter (Twitter).  She directed me to GoBYO (Twitter), a wine search engine that might revolutionize the Bring Your Own Bottle searches in your local restaurants, taking out the ... http://www.winelog.net/blog/2009/06/15/5-questions-with-devon-segel-of-gobyo/ We've made a couple of nice improvements to how we push updates to your twitter feed. (more info on how to connect your WineLog and twitter accounts here) 1. We now delay updates to your twitter feed by 5 minutes. This enables us to combine activity on one wine (e.g. if ... http://www.winelog.net/blog/2009/06/14/updates-to-the-winelog-twitter-feeds/ I've just updated the website to use the word "Rose" (missing the accent) where we had been using "Blush" in the past. What are you talking about? Well, "rosé" and "blush" are most commonly used to refer to the same thing: wines that are neither Red nor White. These wines are different ... http://www.winelog.net/blog/2009/06/09/we-now-use-rose-instead-of-blush/ Facebook has this great thing called "Facebook Connect" that would do this pretty seamlessly, but it will take some coding mojo from me to get that integrated on a site as complex as WineLog. It's on "the list". Until we get that hammered out, there IS a way to push ... http://www.winelog.net/blog/2009/05/22/how-to-push-your-winelog-activity-to-facebook-for-now/ I think at this point, it comes as no surprise that I like the wines from Carmel Valley and Georis Winery, in particular.  They're my favorite winery, in fact, from my favorite appellation.  So, what could be just as awesome as my favorite winery's, appellation-specific wine?  A new wine from ... http://www.winelog.net/blog/2009/05/22/madeleine-a-delicious-drink/ Making perhaps, one of the biggest viral marketing coups in the nascent wine social mediasphere, Murphy-Goode Winery in Healdsburg has blown up the interwebs with its A Really Goode Job search and marketing campaign.  The basics are these: - Live near the property in northern Sonoma Valley, right off the square ... http://www.winelog.net/blog/2009/05/16/be-goode-but-vote-dirty/ The reach and influence of wine bloggers and wine social media mavens have exploded over the last couple of years, particularly in the last 12 months.  Major wine critics have have noticed and responded, wineries and all three tiers of the wine business oligarchy have also taken notice and begun ... http://www.winelog.net/blog/2009/05/14/help-your-favorite-wine-blogger/