Take a walk down the aisles of some wine shops and you feel like you are reading Page 6 of the New York Post or you’ve stumbled into Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum. You will find crooner Frank Sinatra, golfer Arnold Palmer and race car driver Mario Andretti. Rocker Mick Fleetwood, chef Emeril Lagasse and actress […]

One of the US’ oldest conservation organizations, the National Audubon Society, has publicly declared its support for continued wind development and its belief that the climate crisis poses a much bigger risk to our feathered friends than wind turbine blades.
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Because blogs influence the public, The Blog Conversation Project by The Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard is a research study seeking to develop methods of automatically reading and coding a large sample of blogs. Check it out - it’s interesting reading.
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The Week in Wine Reviews
A digestible review of other bloggers’ wine reviews with characteristic sweetness, acidity, and flavorful body but without the dyspeptic finish.
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Tag A Cloud - Get Hits, Get Traffic, Get Tagged..
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I’d rather not catch a virus if I can instead send a “viral marketing” infection to the great Cloud that is the Internet. Tonight I discovered an interesting way to “go viral”, and you can see it over in the sidebar to your right.
But I’m not sure; I really don’t think you should click on […]

With El Noche Del Bubbly approaching, this wine blog would be remiss to not profile at least one sparkler. And while I prefer my fermented fizzies a la Brut, I was charmed enough by the loquaciousness, if not the outright usable information, offered by the Wine for Newbies characterization of the 100%-Chardonnay 2002 Schramsberg Blanc […]

Food and Wine Blogs Online from LocalWineEvents.com
With Chicago-style voting, anyone can stuff the ballot box. Who should you vote for? Why, the Winehiker, who promises a wineglass in every hand.
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The Winehiker’s Trail Tips No. 1: Basic Gear
Veteran hikers and adventure travelers have learned […]

 
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about basic gear – those hiking and travel items that I consider to be the most essential items for having with you every time you venture outdoors.
Basic gear items, I believe, fall into the “need” category, because sooner or later, in some remote location, you’re going […]

Tag, I’m It! Five Things You Don’t Know About Me
A game of “getting to know you” is reaching its insidious tentacles throughout the blogosphere, and I have been summarily “tagged”.
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The Winehiker’s 10 Most Popular Posts in 2006
The year 2006 found my boot heels wandering in several directions in the […]

The year 2006 found my boot heels wandering in several directions in the winehiking blogosphere. A look at my FeedBurner and 103bees statistics helped me to identify my 10 most popular posts of the year on Winehiker Witiculture; perhaps they are also the most meaningful.
Many thanks go to those who suggested the following topics, or […]