Author: Amy
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Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
I had the opportunity to taste a LOT of wines and meet some fantastic winemakers, winery representatives and wine bloggers at the Wine Bloggers Conference last month. One of my favorite wines of the conference was the Alexander Crown by Rodney Strong Vineyards. It was a delicious single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon. I had the opportunity to…
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Want to be a better blogger? The Savvy Blogging Summit Recording are available
While at the Online Technologies and Wine session at the Wine Bloggers Conference in July, several of the bloggers had questions about email newsletters, monetization and search engine optimization, among other things. I wished for so many of those bloggers that they had been with me the weekend prior at the Savvy Blogging Summit. The…
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2011 Wine Bloggers Conference: Link-up of wrap up posts
I enjoyed meeting so many other wine bloggers, wine makers and winery representatives at the fourth annual Wine Bloggers Conference last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia. I’ve had almost as much fun blog-hopping to read everyone’s reviews, peek at everyone’s pictures and compare notes. Since I haven’t seen a compilation of the posts yet, and…
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What to Serve While Tasting Cabernets
This week’s VineSleuth Clue of the Week comes right from my own life. My parents are hosting a brown bag Cabernet tasting at their house tonight and asked me what they should serve to accompany the wines. It is a tasting party, not a dinner party, but they want to have a few light bites…
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Headed to my first Wine Bloggers Conference
My brother-in-law Steve and I are about to be swirling, swishing and spitting with wine bloggers of all kinds… brilliant ones, witty ones, intricate palate ones, verbose ones and maybe to-the-point ones at the 4th North American Wine Bloggers Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia. Yep, there’s even a conference for that and we get to go.…