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2008 Wine Blog Awards Announced

Tom Wark’s 2008 Wine Blog Awards winners were announced today. Tom does a great thing each year highlighting wine blogging and helping to push it into the mainstream of wine media.
There’s been a bit of backlash this year for some reason though, and anonymous blogger overoaked does a fantastic job of skewering both Tom, the [...]

Gangsta Gangsta

From a comment on Tom Wark’s most recent post ($50,000,000).
The last thing this world needs is a presumptuous prick like you telling everyone else that a system thats worked great for 70 years is corrupt.
You think you’ve got this figured out don’t you. If there weren’t any wholesalers you and your faggy California vintners would [...]

How To: Tasting Notes Using Jott and Twitter

So I haven’t been one of those early adopters of Twitter, the “micro blogging” service that took the tech nerd world by storm earlier this year.
Personally I happen to think that the fact that you’re “doing laundry right now, in one big load” is about as interesting as…well as interesting as talking about laundry.
However [...]

Why I Put the Blog in Pinotblogger

Mike Duffy at Winery Website Report. El Jefe at Twisted Oak, and Paul at Inertia hit me with the “Why I Blog” tag today. Many thanks fellas, I always enjoy talkin’ ’bout myself! Here’s what I came up with…

First and foremost the blog is a cheap, fun marketing vehicle and personal relationship builder. Crass perhaps [...]

Best Winery Blog Award

I’m proud to report that Pinotblogger took away the Best Winery Blog award in the first American Wine Blog Awards over at Tom Wark’s Fermentation. Thanks to all my friends, family, readers and industry friends for Voting for Pedro. Good times indeed.
Here are the other winners, I suggest you check them out as they are [...]