http://www.winelog.net/blog Stay up-to-date on wine news and WineLog development. Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:46:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en WineLogBloghttp://feedburner.google.com The 2nd Annual North American Wine Bloggers' Conference is almost here, starting tomorrow!  It is again at the Flamingo in Santa Rosa, CA, deep in the Sonoma Valley.  Last year's inaugural conference exploded the reach and understanding of wine bloggers, wine & social media and their effect on the wine ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WineLogBlog/~3/GX6VBR9CNbA/ http://www.winelog.net/blog/?p=1820 I solved a wine mystery recently, one that had been bothering me for years.  Around the time that The Lady and I bought our home in the Bay Area, I was allowed able to buy a decent wine fridge, my Danby 75/100 bottle.  Just as I was headed out the ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WineLogBlog/~3/QrVRBlAQK5E/ http://www.winelog.net/blog/?p=1785 A few weeks back, I was treated to an enlightening appellation-specific tasting of Santa Lucia Highlands wines courtesy of the host, Hahn Family Wines.  Santa Lucia Highlands sit on the southeast facing slopes of the Santa Lucia mountain range, on one side of the plentiful Salinas Valley. I made the ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WineLogBlog/~3/40E2CD19dhQ/ http://www.winelog.net/blog/?p=1698 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://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WineLogBlog/~3/Kb7t-kvUDkg/ http://www.winelog.net/blog/?p=1450 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://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WineLogBlog/~3/y9XBRHQufM8/ http://www.winelog.net/blog/?p=1622 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://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WineLogBlog/~3/yT_-iafJqOE/ http://www.winelog.net/blog/?p=1570 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://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WineLogBlog/~3/GTs1j8aQs5E/ http://www.winelog.net/blog/?p=1543 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://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WineLogBlog/~3/EtOKWK03Wsw/ http://www.winelog.net/blog/?p=1539 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://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WineLogBlog/~3/4N2L-r_dWe4/ http://www.winelog.net/blog/?p=1527 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://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WineLogBlog/~3/e_hs5Q5VBcI/ http://www.winelog.net/blog/?p=1443