I stumbled upon an intriguing, if mildly outdated (posted last year) wine blogging dialogue on the ethics of review samples and bloggers in general. Based on this New Media Musings post which questions the practices of taking money or product in exchange for reviews, fellow wine bloggers at Lenndevours and Professor Bainbridge on Wine...

I have to apologise. My webhost has had some major hardware problems of late. As a result I lost a number of partially written posts with their pictures and over 5 days worth of traffic and site updates. I am trying to redo them all, but my ...

Pity they didn't manage to set an active link to spittoon but here is the article on blogging written by Ross Bentley for Caterer and Hotelkeeper . It's a good article as it happens... Search Tags: wine  food & drink  wine tasting  caterer and hotelkeeper

Perhaps I should have used this as the new banner art design... Another Hugh Macleod piece etc Search Tags: wine  food & drink  wine tasting  gaping void

I just noticed that we have now published 100 wine reviews here at Winetastic in just under 12 months: 71 red wines, 19 white wines, 6 dessert wines, 3 sparkling wines and 1 fortified wine. 33 Shiraz, 14 blends, 11 Cabernet, 8 Riesling and 6 Semillon (a number that needs ...

We here at Grape Juice are tickled pink to announce that Wine Blogging Wednesday #23 will be our first attempt to take part in this long-standing wine blogging tradition. Whether it be our young blood, or just delight in finding an excuse to drink more, we find it awfully hard ...

Just realised that Spittoon is exactly two years old today! The first post wasn't anything particularly interesting; just a mention of an update to the (now defunct) UKWinesOnline retailer database.... the next post didn't appear until the 30th. Taking a quick break from packing for tomorrows house move so the ...

Wine Sediments, the collaboratory wine-focused site in the WellFed Network , is having a Great Grape Day on the 20th. It is going to be an on-going monthly event with posts through the day covering one specific grape variety - the inaugural Great Grape Day will be coveirng Cabernet Sauvignon. ...

Wednesday night was a great time and our first podcast here with Gabriella my lovely wife and our friends over at Notes from Spain. Ben and Marina are a couple who live near us here in Madrid and are the authors of Notes from Spain. This podcast is different in ...

"If Every Day Were Christmas" is the result of a unique benefit project initiated by Adam Curry. The song is a collaboration between 32 singers from 8 countries -- a group collectively known as Podsafe for Peace -- all brought together by the populist phenomenon of podcasting and the desire ...