This qualifies as the stunning news of the month. A New York Times report from today indicates that the publishing company Conde Nast will be closing the doors on Gourmet Magazine. Gourmet has been published since December 1940. It was an institution in the food and wine world, and the original food porn magazine. According [...]
This week we launched a new website for the Academy of Wine Communications. I’ve been working on it for the past few months, and it is finally ready for use. I wanted to make the site much more interactive and a more useful tool for members and other wine PR professionals. Here are some of [...]
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This week I attended the Family Winemakers of California trade tasting in San Francisco. There were hundreds of family-owned wineries pouring their wines. They ranged in production from very small to quite large. The concept behind the organization that puts on this tasting each year is to offer a support organization for the hundreds of [...]
As mentioned in my last post, I spent last weekend in Dallas, Texas at the Drink Local Wine Conference and TEXSOM. While the general goal of the DLW Conference was to discuss the topic of local wine, the overall focus was on Texas wine specifically. Afterall, that was where we were. I have to say [...]
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This past weekend, I attended the Drink Local Wine Conference in Dallas, Texas. Some 75 people met at Le Cordon Bleu Institute of Culinary Arts Dallas to meet and discuss the merits of drinking local wine generally, and Texas wine particularly. Drink Local Wine started as an idea that a handful of wine writers, including [...]
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