Wine

When I was thinking about what my blog was going to be about, I laid out five categories; venture capital and technology, politics, music, travel, and random posts. Those are my five categories on the nav bar on the left and every post I do gets put into one or more of them. I almost did a sixth category which was going to be wine.

But for various reasons, including the fact that I am not totally comfortable with broadcasting my love of wine, I chose to limit it to five.

I've been tempted to add wine at least four or five times since then and blog about a great bottle of Sagrantino di Montefalco, Gewurztraminer, Priorat, or some other unusual, but great, varietal. I love wine and love exploring and finding new and different wines, and even collecting them a bit.

I am not a wine snob. I am not even a wine connoisseur. But I love to drink wine and explore and learn.

So, it was with great pleasure that I found that Matt's wife Mariquita (who picked some great Greek wines for us about a month ago) and her friend Sharon have launched the Wine Blog.

I have added it my RSS feeds and the list of blogs I read. I am looking forward to blogging it and maybe even adding wine as a category on this blog.

Comments

[Rick Gregory]

Thanks for the links. I've been looking for wine related blogs and there don't seem to be that many. I wonder if it's because people feel less like posting about wine in an article format than in a discussion format.

BTW, an interesting and very active online wine community is Mark Squire's board.

[Jeremy C. Wright]

Also check out Steven Bainbridge's blog (http://www.professorbainbridge.com/). He's a law professor at UCLA, and a huge wine guy. His nickname around the blogosphere is Wine Boy, if that's any indication :)

[Steve Shu]

I wonder what it is we love about wine so much. Although my wife and I love wines, in some ways, I find it harder to understand wine than business. Perhaps it has to do with finding the right foundation for understanding wines. Maybe you have to have a broader knowledge of the world as a whole (so that you can appreciate years and geographies from which the wine originates) which makes it harder for me to understand than business.