In the media

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Some stories of mine in print:

“Red, white or green?” The New York Times, 12/28/07.

“Finding Wine of a Certain Age,” Food & Wine, July 2007.

"Deconstructing a wine list" with Ray Isle, Food & Wine, July 2006.

“What’s your wine’s carbon footprint?” Wine & Spirits, February 2008.

“The five best wine blogs you’re not reading,” Wine & Spirits, September 2007.

"Politics and wine," a new entry for the third edition of the Oxford Companion to Wine, Jancis Robinson, ed., 2006.

Stories or mentions of DrVino.com in other media:

“Fun and refreshing.” –Jancis Robinson, MW, OBE

One of the “fresh voices taking wine journalism in new and important directions.” -Michael Steinberger in The World of Fine Wine, Issue 19, 2008.

On “Marketplace” discussing the wines of Kentucky, 6/2/08. Listen here.

The Bryant Park Project, NPR, February 4, 2008. Tyler Colman of DrVino.com explains why it’s hard for wine to cross state lines. Listen now.

“ABC News Now spoke with wine expert Tyler Colman, aka ‘Dr. Vino,’ to see how the wines would shape up on the baseball diamond…” Commenting on the Red Sox charity wines. Program aired June 6, 2007.

nytlogo153×23.gif Quoted in “Wine Bars Grow Up and Squeeze In,” The New York Times, April 9, 2008.

nytlogo153×23.gif Quoted in ““Wine’s Pleasures: Are They All in Your Head?” NYT May 7, 2008.
“Ultimately, context may be the most underrated aspect of enjoying wine. Tyler Colman, a wine writer and blogger (drvino.com), whose first book, “Wine Politics,” will shortly be published by the University of California Press, has a second book coming out this fall, “A Year of Wine” (Simon & Schuster), that focuses on context.

“The mood and the food and the context really matters,” he said. “It’s the neglected pairing.”

Quoted in “Napa Vintners Seek Cachet, Profit With Labels,” Bloomberg, July 1, 2008

Tasted and commented on three wines sold to benefit Red Sox charities, the Schardonnay (Curt Schilling), Manny Being Merlot (Manny Ramirez) and the Caberknuckle (Tim Wakefield). May 28, 2007 Sports Illustrated (pdf).

Quoted in “Where Bordeaux is concerned, the bulls have it,” January 22, 2008 [Reuters]

“Another credit crisis victim: wine prices” February 5, 2008 [Reuters]

“Dr. Vino, one of our favorite wine blogs…”
Grub Street, New York magazine.

Quoted in “Sniffing around for wine deals” 12/16/2007, Daily News.

Quoted recommending the Pierre Peters Champagne, Valentine’s day, 2007. US News & World Report. 2/9/07

“The creator of the wine Web log DrVino.com, Tyler Colman, announced that for millennials, ‘wine is the new black,’ offering ‘a lot more return on your social investment than beer.’” NY Sun, May 9, 2007

“One of the three best wine blogs.” Fast Company magazine
May 2006

“…the popular Dr. Vino wine blog” Hartford Courant 11/26/07

Quoted in “Wine Pairings: The Grape Crusades” Express (Washington Post) 11/2/07

One of the “seven best wine blogs.” Food & Wine magazine, October 2005. “Colman intelligently explores the intersection of wine, politics and business…”

Some coverage of my research on the carbon footprint of wine:
ECOLOGY: THE WINE DIVIDE, (the carbon footprint of wine) January 11, 2008, Science.

nytlogo153×23.gif Cited in “Movable Feast Carries a Pollution Price Tag,” by Elisabeth Rosenthal, The New York Times, Business Section. April 26, 2008. In the series “The Food Chain: A Food’s Carbon Footprint”

Mentioned in “Big Foot” by Michael Spector in The New Yorker, February 25, 2008.

“I’ll have the Bordeaux, thanks,” Environmental Capital blog at the The Wall Street Journal. 2/19/08

“The benchmark carbon footprint report…” Wine Enthusiast magazine, May 2008.

“How Green is Your Packaging?” January 2008, Wines & Vines

“Message in a barrel,” The Nature Conservancy

“Study says East Coasters should drink French,” Treehugger.com

And other mentions in: The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune, Dayton Daily News, Columbus Dispatch and…
Quoted in “Crossover Dreams” Baltimore Sun 10/25/07

Interviewed by John Lindner of the Baltimore Sun on his podcast, “blography.” Mp3 file here.

“America’s most eminent practitioner of wineology muses on plonk gossip.” 3/10/07 The Guardian (UK)

“Blogarithms: Big Apple and humble grapes,” Jan 28, 2008, Metro NY

"Wine hits of 2006," New York Sun, 12/17/06
“Tyler Colman, also known as Dr. Vino (DrVino.com),found his best wine memory of 2006 in a humble but highly useful wine…”

Interviewed in "Get Saucy," a podcast from TimeOut Chicago. 10/5/06

"100 wines and you’re in the club," Macleans (Canada), 5/22/06

"Short sips," Urban Vintage column, New York Sun, 2/22/06
“There’s a new guide in town…”

"Media roundup," Good Eating section, Chicago Tribune, 3/1/06

As well as leading web sites and blogs such as: Salon.com, TheStreet.com, LifeHacker.com, Treehugger.com, Problogger.com, Kottke.org, Freakonomics.com, HuffingtonPost.com, DailyKos.com, The Consumerist, LifeHacker, Gothamist, The Daily Green, Luxist.com, Gridskipper, Eater, FastCompany.com, Foreign Policy, Wall Street Journal blogs, planetgreen.discovery.com, slashfood.com, SeriousEats.com, and Epicurious.com among others.

“The Colors of Cognac,” a Food & Wine top blog post of the week, 2/2/07
“Cognac in the barrel and in the cellar," a F&W top blog post of the week 2/2/07
“Cognac word of the day: alembic," a F&W top blog post of the week, 1/26/07
“Quality guaranteed?" a Food & Wine top blog post of the week, 10/27/06
“Mourvedre: the next big red?” a Food & Wine top blog post of the week. 10/13/06
“City swallows first growth” a Food & Wine top blog post of the week. 5/24/06
“New York City Wine Bars," a Food & Wine top blog post of the week. 4/21/06
“Taste the terroir of the Marlboro Man," (Utah wineries), a F&W blog post of the week, by guest author Mark Ashley. 7/21/06