Wine Blogging Female-Style
Just a quick note on this happy Thursday to shout out to the women of the wine blogging world. Yes, Thursday, October 11th is officially Women’s Wine Blogging Celebration Day, according to…well, according to US!
Here — in no particular order — are just a few of the wine blogs with women at the helm (or co-helm) worth checking out; sheesh, with words like “helm” being thrown around, you’d think you were reading Variety:
Wild Walla Walla Wine Woman
Good Wine Under $20
Strumerika
Wine-Scamp
Catavino
Wannabe Wino
Amy Rootvik
My Wine Education
Deb’s Key West Wine and Garden Blog
The Wine Chicks
Wine Girl Online
Bottlenotes Blog
Courtney Cochran
Nat Decants
Celebrate Wine
and how could we forget one of our favorites (or favourites!)?
Please feel free to write any we may have accidentally overlooked in the comments. Now, go click on some of the links above and get in touch with your feminine side.
(Sorry for the late add, Carol!)
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2008 “Bebame” Red, El Dorado County, California
Cabernet Franc (65%) and Gamay (35%) from - gasp - California! And only 13% ABV, pretty modest by California standards. If I tasted this blind I would probably have said it’s from the Loire Valley. It has pretty much nothing in common with the full bodied iterations of Cab Franc coming out of Napa. Juicy, light, delicious quaffing wine.$18 a bottle
2006 Telegramme Chateauneuf-du-Pape Rouge
Really balanced and smooth, this is a bargain of a Chateauneuf. Yeah, the 07s are lauded but what would I prefer to drink? This! It’s the second label of Vieux Telegraphe, from the same property but from younger vines. And it’s a deal at $33 a bottle.2006 or bust!
NV Barcino Cava: LA Times Wine of the Week!
Delicious and just in time for New Year’s Eve…this is the LA Times Wine of the Week, and we have plenty in stock. Order online, pick-up in-store!$14 a bottle!
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Wine Retail and Social Media: Yeah, I Should Be Blogging…:
But I’m not. Funny, it was pointed out to me that domaine547.com appears as a successful example of social media in wine (juxtaposed against the Wine Spectator of all things) in this recent presentation (see slide #25). I guess they haven’t looked at the blog lately; it hasn’t been updated in weeks.
Really, in my internet-only days, I never understood why Brick and Mortar retailers didn’t take the time to blog. Now I know. They don’t have the time!
Seriously. Even in the downtime when there aren’t any customers — which, let’s face it, exists in decent quantity — there’s always something to be done at the store that takes priority…from the very lowly tasks, like sweeping, to the equally tedious but still mundane paying of bills, or putting price labels on bottles, to tasting wine with reps, it all has to get done. And I am here without support staff a fair amount of the time.
Suffice it to say, to all those out there giving speeches about social media and the importance of it to branding for wineries and wine stores, people, for the most part, get it. I know I get it! But finding the time is another story. And finding a voice? Even harder.
So at the moment, what I’m doing is tweeting (@domaineLA), because tweeting is very time un-intensive. A tweet takes a few seconds, and I think I get both my voice and my point (when I have one) across in these little quick spurts. I don’t know that it’s enough, but at least it’s something.
I really hope to get back to blogging soon. I swear, I do! But right now I have something very important to do, so you’ll have to excuse me while I go empty the trash can in the bathroom…
Wine Retail and Social Media: Yeah, I Should Be Blogging…
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Frizzante
From Wikipedia: Frizzante is an Italian wine term term for semi-sparkling wine (as opposed to Spumante, which is generally used for fully sparkling wines). Frizzante wines generally owe their bubbles to a partial secondary fermentation in tank. You might notice a light fizz or tingly sensation on the tongue with a Frizzante wine, compared to the more carbonated sensation that more fully sparkling wines yield.
Scorekage
Okay, so we made up this word yesterday after a great restaurant experience. We brought a bottle of wine with us, expecting to pay a corkage fee. But the restaurant either forgot to charge us the $15, or decided to be nice to us. We scored! Hence, “scorekage” has entered our lexicon. This can also refer to BYO friendly restaurants that don’t charge for corkage under any circumstances.
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Our friends launched a new site and domaine547 is a featured wine columnist in their premiere edition! Go check out Fabulous & Frugal for some fantastic lifestyle tips for living the good life during what, for most of us, is an economically challenging time. There’s much more than wine there, and we’re thrilled to be a small part of the start of what will surely be a successful venture. Congrats to Brandi & Steph for their achievement!
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October 11th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
[…] admin wrote a fantastic post today on “Wine Blogging Female-Style”Here’s ONLY a quick extractJust a quick note on this happy Thursday to shout out to the women of the wine blogging world. Yes, Thursday, October 11th is officially Women’s Wine Blogging Celebration Day, according to…well, according to US! … […]
October 11th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
[…] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptJust a quick note on this happy Thursday to shout out to the women of the wine blogging world. Yes, Thursday, October 11th is officially Women’s Wine Blogging Celebration Day, according to…well, according to US! … […]
October 11th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Happy Women Wine Blogging Celebration Day!
October 11th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Happy Wine Blogging Women Day! I’m one too
http://www.celebrate-wine.com
October 11th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Happy W.W.B.C.D.!
Wait… that looks like “What Would Bill Cosby Do?” Better make that:
Happy W.W.B.C. Day!
ps: Add -
“Wine Outlook” http://www.wineoutlook.com/
“The Wine Broad’s Board” http://winebroad.typepad.com/my_weblog/
“Dover Canyon” http://dovercanyon.typepad.com/dover_canyon/
“The Winemaker’s Wife” http://thewinemakerswife.blogs.com/vinodea/
“la gramiere” http://www.lagramiere.com/blog/
October 11th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Don’t forget one of my favs, Farley at http://wineoutlook.com and http://behindthevines.com
Thanks for the nod
October 11th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Thanks Jill! What a great idea
October 11th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
I really enjoy Erin’s writings at http://www.mylifeinvino.blogspot.com/ as well as Maria Hunt’s http://www.all-that-sparkles.blogspot.com/ though I wish she’d post more often!
Thank you Jill!
October 12th, 2007 at 6:59 am
Thanks, Jill. It’s nice to be noticed! We are out there, writing away! Thanks, too, to all those who left even more links! They’ve led me to some good new reads.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:41 am
Oh, and http://www.alicefeiring.com/index.html
October 13th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Yay women wine bloggers! Can’t believed I missed this on Thursday. Too busy tasting?
Thanks for the mention.
October 14th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
[…] at domaine547.com put up a great post this week. Here’s an […]
October 15th, 2007 at 8:10 am
Thanks for letting us know about this and thanks to Megan and Jeff for remembering me….