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By: Iberian Links around the Web

Iberian Links around the Web — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:52:43 +0000

[...] we can help jog your memory a bit, we actually participated in a show with Tim from Winecast.net last year, chatting about the wine blogging industry as a whole and what might come of it in the [...]

By: Decanterberry Tales - The Vulgar Wine Blog

Decanterberry Tales - The Vulgar Wine Blog — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:45:55 +0000

99 Points! Or, was that 9.5? Ratings and all that ……

Rating wine is certainly subjective, and tricky. Making matters more difficult, there are different scales with which to rate wine. We started out with a 4 star rating system (1 star through 4). But this proved inadequate to delineate the range of our…

By: Vino da Burde - » Facciamo il punto sul vino in rete (quella seria!) su Skypecast!

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:07:28 +0000

[...] (sollecitata anche da Franco Ziliani in questo suo post dove ci fa conoscere l’esito della discussione avvenuta in usa sul wine blogging con Vinography & co.) la prima SkypeCast ovvero chiaccherata su Skype pubblica in cui saranno [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:25:59 +0000

Franco: Best of luck with your podcast; let me know if you need any technical help (we used Skype to record our call).

Karl: Thanks for stopping by and for the link to your blog. I’ll check it out… drinking more and better Nebbiolo is one of my New Year’s resolutions

Marco: A good point about winery blogs. Jeff and I will form a panel early next year with the best winery bloggers for a discussion of how it’s different than individual wine bloggers.

Happy New Year!

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:39:26 +0000

Great group of people in a single podcast stream! Thanks Tim for organizing such a great discussion. One reason that I believe people get hooked into blogs, especially meaningful and informative blogs like all of yours, is that they are… FREE! I don’t subscribe to the print magazines referred to in the podcast, but I thought that one point missed is that individual bloggers who aren’t in it for a living are not able to review as many wines as the referred magazines do, right? I believe this is an example of an opportunity for a collective wine blogging “print-out” at a small charge. Finally, I would like to recommend a topic for a future podcast… blogging by wineries. I admit that I haven’t searched hard enough, but I’ve encountered few “Dover Canyon”, “Pinot Blogger” or “Goosecross Cellars” like blogs out there. How are wineries doing in today’s living web? Good examples and bad examples? What could be done better? Is it worth the time spent, i.e. how much does it impact sales? Etc. Just an idea…

Happy New Year to you all.
Marco

By: Karl Goldfield

Karl Goldfield — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:02:57 +0000

Wonderful blog and podcast. I am an avid enthusiast and have recently decided its time to start making wine for the purest experience. The massive amount of information pouring from the wine bloggin community is refreshing and helpful. My wife and I have decided to blog about our adventures into wine making, but will begin with drinking and commenting on a vast array of wines made from the Nebbiolo grape of Italy’s Piemonte region. Please feel free to drop by and join
in on the experience.

Happy Holidays,

Karl Goldfield

http://excellentwine.blogspot.com

By: Franco Ziliani

Franco Ziliani — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:51:34 +0000

Excellent idea Tim, very interesting and useful! I have proposed in my Italian wine blog Vino al Vino http://www.vinoalvino.org to realise something like your state of the art discussion also in Italy re the situation of wine blogging here. This is the link to my post
http://vinoalvino.org/blog/2007/12/che-cos%e2%80%99e-e-dove-sta-andando-il-wine-blogging-perche-non-discuterne-anche
-in-italia.html
Bravo, bravissimo!
Franco Ziliani

By: Robert Puker

Robert Puker — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:43:11 +0000

Overall, very interesting attempt. I enjoyed all the people involved. I recognize what the show’s topic was but next time, pehaps a little less shop talk and a little more wine talk? More reccs, passions, predilections, obssessions, that sort of thing.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:34:06 +0000

Finally got an opportunity to have a listen. Fascinating stuff. I hope I never see the day when bloggers adopt a common rating system! Variety, as they say, is the spice of life…

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:14:28 +0000

It was so fun Jeff and I are planning another panel of bloggers next month… we’ll probably talk about a range of subjects but being a new year, predictions are probably going to be made as well.

Jill: I think the highest you will get Jeff is about $45

By: Jill

Jill — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:35:17 +0000

Enjoyed as well…

…Jeff, I bought that bottle but paid $1000 dollars for it; I’m not satisfied, so can I get that $2000 bucks you owe me for the double money back guarantee? hehehehehe

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:11:25 +0000

I really enjoyed listening to this. Great discussion and great topics. (It was nice hearing what you all sound like, as well!)

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:05:00 +0000

Robert: thanks for the feedback on context. we’ll try to be more inclusive of non-U.S. wine bloggers the next time.

Thanks for your support, Matthew!

By: RichardA

RichardA — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:16:17 +0000

Very interesting discussion with plenty of relevant topics. Keep up the good work.

By: Yipes!! Who put that in my Spanish Cava?

Yipes!! Who put that in my Spanish Cava? — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:16:07 +0000

[...] Gabriella PS: On a final note, Tim Elliot at Winecast has recently released a podcast on the past, present and future state of wine blogging featuring: Alder Yarrow, Dr. Debs and yours [...]

By: Matthew Apsokardu

Matthew Apsokardu — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:11:01 +0000

Great to hear from Dr. Debs and the other prestigious guests. Worthwhile listen!

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:08:19 +0000

Great conversation. I don’t often listen to podcasts, but it is great to hear from all these people I already know and interact with in different ways. Knowing Ryan’s voice in particular makes me feel I’m on the phone and should be able to butt in and join in too.

One of the interesting things about this discussion is that the themes may be universal, but your US perspectives are quite different to experiences in this country (the UK) – I’m sure Ryan and Gabriella would say the same with Spain. “Millenials”, “Robert Parker”, “Wine Spectator”, …

Interestingly, many of the topics you touch upon fall into my area of interest for my blog as they are about the concept and conversation of wine rather than the wine itself (until you got to your wine picks).

I will definitely try and pick up on these themes and post up my thoughts.

Thanks Tim (and everyone else), and congratulations on the 3 years.