Really GOOD Blogging
Lately I have run across some really good wine blogs. The other day I was fact-checking one of my own posts and came across a group of newish blogs – well, entirely new to me.It may be hard to fathom, but honestly I started keeping this blog back in 2005 as a personal journal – something to help me record what, when and why I did things in the vineyard and winery, to help me fact-check my own too-fallible memory. And to get the occasional rant off my chest.
After I opened our Tasting Salon in Sonoma, every so often someone would come in and say they found the place after stumbling across and reading my blog. "Wow" – I thought.
It wasn't until 18 months after starting the blog that I finally linked to it from the commercial Westwood site. I didn't start the blog as a marketing tool, but duh. Now the site metrics show that the blog gets twice the hits of the main page. Go figure.
This is all by way of saying I'm a bit surprised that this little journal of weather reports, thank yous, and occasional minor triumphs (or setbacks) is interesting to anyone but me – especially when I read some wine-topical writing that is actually good, and incidentally entertaining.
I'm talking about discovering blogs by Steve Heimhoff, Tom Wark, Arthur Przebinda, and Josh Hermsmeyer. These guys are taking the time to write really interesting stuff, and to do it well. Chapeau, people!
(Quick disclaimer: There are hundreds of great wine blogs on the internet. I miss Emily Resling's.)
2 Comments:
Thanks for the props John.
I appreciate your intelligent posts as well.
Arthur - you are welcome. Keep up the good work. And thanks back - John
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