USA Today starts a-blogging
Jerry Shriver has taken the plunge and started his own blog! Jerry has an interest in finding good, affordable wines, a subject also near and dear to my heart. In his new blog, the USA Today wine writer will make daily wine picks for wines under $15. Daily! Whoa! Given his national audience through the largest circulation daily paper, Jerry will aim to blog about wines with high-ish production volumes, with a minimum of around 10,000 cases available.
That actually makes his site a good balance to mine, since the affordable wines that I recommend are usually produced in volumes well under 10,000 cases. While Jerry is trying to make life easy for his readers to find his picks, my goal is clearly to frustrate readers with tasting notes of wines you can’t find. Just kidding! I recognize that some of my wine picks may be hard to find but that’s why I think a tool like wine-searcher is invaluable.
Eric Asimov of the NY Times also launched a blog recently, which explicitly does not offer tasting notes, instead focusing on his personal experiences (we have learned about Grand Crew his “martial arts food and wine food group” and even that his car was broken into on a very bad day). Many other staff writers have gotten the blogging bug and each has his or her own style. It seems that features writing and food and wine make for a good fit with blogs. The blog is mightier than the sword!
Jerry Shriver’s blog: http://blogs.usatoday.com/cheers/
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