Comments on: End of year thoughts http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/ the blog that proves "in vino veritas" Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:27:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Thomas http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11696 Thomas Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:13:45 +0000 http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11696 To answer your last question, Tyce: the Finger Lakes of New York, but I'm prejudice ;) To answer your last question, Tyce: the Finger Lakes of New York, but I’m prejudice ;)

]]> By: Tyce (Wine Trials Associate Editor) http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11693 Tyce (Wine Trials Associate Editor) Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:17:52 +0000 http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11693 Great questions. Here's a few more: when will consumers learn to punish wineries for inflating prices to curry prestige points? Will decent restaurants learn to feel comfortable pouring wine from a box? And what now that Argentina, Chile, Spain, Portugal etc. have been thoroughly popularized, where will the most exciting wines and the best deals come from in the next decade? Great questions. Here’s a few more: when will consumers learn to punish wineries for inflating prices to curry prestige points? Will decent restaurants learn to feel comfortable pouring wine from a box? And what now that Argentina, Chile, Spain, Portugal etc. have been thoroughly popularized, where will the most exciting wines and the best deals come from in the next decade?

]]> By: Henrik http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11427 Henrik Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:22:26 +0000 http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11427 If you have the time? No... I wil give you a PM If you have the time? No… I wil give you a PM

]]> By: Thomas http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11426 Thomas Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:22:00 +0000 http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11426 Henrik, I can't imagine who could do that any better than I...can you??? Henrik,

I can’t imagine who could do that any better than I…can you???

]]> By: Henrik http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11425 Henrik Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:16:16 +0000 http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11425 Apropos cost writing.... - going op-topics - can you recommend me a ghostwriter - one who can make em 8 blogs a months - each 200 - 250 word about Finger Lakes...? Apropos cost writing…. - going op-topics - can you recommend me a ghostwriter - one who can make em 8 blogs a months - each 200 - 250 word about Finger Lakes…?

]]> By: Thomas http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11422 Thomas Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:08:26 +0000 http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11422 Vinogirl, Thanks. Henrik, Whether blogging or writing for print, it's difficult to find anyone willing to pay for consumer advocacy. I'm talking about the amount of research involved--that costs money. Vinogirl,

Thanks.

Henrik,

Whether blogging or writing for print, it’s difficult to find anyone willing to pay for consumer advocacy. I’m talking about the amount of research involved–that costs money.

]]> By: Henrik http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11417 Henrik Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:40:39 +0000 http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11417 Thanks for posting the Link Mitch - Proberly the same problem we have in Europe when we want to see programs in US - banned by IP. I also agree with a Micth regarding the need for true consumer advocacy. This is defintely up in time in Europe and from my own blog I can see a lot of hits related to those issues. Why shouldn't there be revenue for consumer advocacy?? I will also admit that the competition for blogging is much bigger in US than me blogging in Danish. If you want to be heard you have a much bigger job to do promoting your site. Thanks for posting the Link Mitch - Proberly the same problem we have in Europe when we want to see programs in US - banned by IP.

I also agree with a Micth regarding the need for true consumer advocacy. This is defintely up in time in Europe and from my own blog I can see a lot of hits related to those issues. Why shouldn’t there be revenue for consumer advocacy??

I will also admit that the competition for blogging is much bigger in US than me blogging in Danish. If you want to be heard you have a much bigger job to do promoting your site.

]]> By: vinogirl http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11408 vinogirl Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:56:51 +0000 http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11408 Happy New Year! Happy New Year!

]]> By: Thomas http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11392 Thomas Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:41:05 +0000 http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11392 <p>Mitch,</p> <p>Have you ever heard of the famous Falernian wine of 121 BC?</p> <p>It was among the early single-vineyard wine sensations on earth, and the stuff was produced in a truly small spot in Campania, on a small mountain that demanded limited production.</p> <p>Still, over time more Falernian flooded the market than anyone could have imagined could have come from that little mountain. Finally, Roman elders proclaimed it second class plonk and the famous Falernian was no more.</p> <p>Greed and dishonesty are not limited to contemporary times.</p> Mitch,

Have you ever heard of the famous Falernian wine of 121 BC?

It was among the early single-vineyard wine sensations on earth, and the stuff was produced in a truly small spot in Campania, on a small mountain that demanded limited production.

Still, over time more Falernian flooded the market than anyone could have imagined could have come from that little mountain. Finally, Roman elders proclaimed it second class plonk and the famous Falernian was no more.

Greed and dishonesty are not limited to contemporary times.

]]> By: Mitch http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11391 Mitch Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:31:26 +0000 http://vinofictions.com/2009/12/30/end-of-year-thoughts/#comment-11391 "Historically this is not new. Classical Greece and Rome suffered these kinds of issues and scandals in the wine industry. Even before that, cultures took advantage of Phoenician wine savvy and produced bogus famous Biblian wines from Lebanon that were not produced in Lebanon at all." Now I really am going to have to find that book of yours, Thomas. “Historically this is not new. Classical Greece and Rome suffered these kinds of issues and scandals in the wine industry. Even before that, cultures took advantage of Phoenician wine savvy and produced bogus famous Biblian wines from Lebanon that were not produced in Lebanon at all.”

Now I really am going to have to find that book of yours, Thomas.

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