If You Want to Monetize Your Wine Blog, Get a Job in the Wine Business
This has been my assertion, since Day 1. I took this message to the 2009 European Wine Bloggers Conference. I emphatically made this statement in one of the sessions, when it began to be discussed, it...
View ArticleI’m With Parker on This One ~ Possibly the last weigh in
Why? Robert Parker, Jr., spent his entire wine career adhering to very a strict rule; namely, he’s paid his own way. This has allowed for him to candidly say and write whatever he’s wanted. As a...
View Article2013 Class of the Vintners Hall of Fame: Cesar Chavez, Robert M. Parker, Jr.,...
The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) has announced that its 2013 Vintners Hall of Fame inductees will be legendary labor leader Cesar Chavez, wine writer Frank Schoonmaker, the founder of The Wine...
View ArticleIt’s So Great to See That Robert Parker Is Still Bobbing Along
It’s so great to see Robert Parker Bob-bob-bobbing along. (Whew!) In early February I had to ask the question, “How important is the Wine Advocate Now,” because it had become a moving target with so...
View ArticleIt all boils down to Parker, Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast, and Tanzer, in...
“Back in the day” (pre social media), the following four … Parker, Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast, and Tanzer … along with Charlie Olken ruled wine with an iron fist. And, they still do, boys and...
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