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Kaz and Randy enjoy a chat with Evan Cover, CEO of Cruvee, a site that aggregates social media for both wine lovers and wineries. They also touch on a couple new topics, including a novel approach to the harvest webcast that some wineries are doing this year. And of course the latest on the Wine Bloggers Conference, now only a month away!

• BevX.com’s new look [link]
• BevX.com’s wicked Mojito recipe [link]
• BevX.com’s Beverage of the Week [link]
• Cruvee [link]
• Cruvee for Wineries (for wineries to find out more about joining Cruvee) [link]
• Titus Vineyards “Harvest Live” [link]
• Today’s wine at The Wine Spies [link]
• Domaine547 [link]
• Wine Bloggers Conference [link]
• WBC Topics to vote on [link]
• Stay Sonoma (to find rooms for WBC, since the Flamingo is booked solid) [link]

 

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Wine Biz Radio moves its show to Friday afternoons, and Randy and Kaz have El Jefe of Twisted Oak and Agent Red of The Wine Spies on the line to talk about Amazon.com and their (re)entry into the wine industry. Enjoy!

 

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Kaz and Randy overcome the rough spots with Talkshoe to pull off a great show, with Ziggy The Wine Gal (who is a true wine entrepreneur) and the team that put together the European Wine Bloggers Conference in Spain at the end of August. Then our intrepid hosts riff on a variety of local topics. As a bonus, the podcast episode is eleven glorious minutes longer than you can get by listening to KSVY! Eleven more minutes of Kaz and Randy, what could be better?

• Ziggy The Wine Gal [link]
• European Wine Bloggers Conference 2008 [link]
• Robert McIntosh’s Wine Conversation [link]
• Ryan and Gabriella Opaz’s Catavino [link]
• Vinus TV (click the “EWBC” button for video of EWBC) [link]
• Heart of Sonoma Valley’s Spotlight on Zinfandel [link]
• Wine Bloggers Conference this October [link]

 

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After a very interesting week, Kaz and Randy play host to Tim Elliott of Winecast and Tom Wark of Fermentation, as they summarize and nail the coffin shut on the “Rockaway Seven“, a group of wine bloggers who received trade samples of Rodney Strong‘s new allocated brand Rockaway before the mainstream wine media by agreeing to post some kind of blog entry (wine review or other piece about the wine or the bloggers getting early samples) by a given deadline, and got burned by Steve Heimoff and Tom separately for the alleged strings attached to the reception of the wine samples. Despite the firestorm that resulted, with everyone’s participation, the parties work through the rough spots and uncover some interesting questions about ethics, journalism and blogging.

It’s peace, love and understanding on Wine Biz Radio!

• The Rockaway Seven – Introduction by Jeff at Good Grape [link] — You’ll notice there are eight reviews:
  • Tim Elliot’s review at Winecast [link]
  • Sonadora’s review at Wannabe Wino [link]
  • Renee’s review at Feed Me/Drink Me [link]
  • Jeff’s review at Good Grape [link]
  • Arthur Black’s (guest blogged) review at Good Grape [link]
  • Joe’s review at 1WineDude.com [link]
  • Dr. Debs’ review at Good Wine Under $20 [link]
  • Kori’s review at Wine Peeps [link]
• The Critics
  • Mike Duffy’s post that started it all [link]
  • Steve Heimoff’s blog [link]
  • Tom Wark’s post about ethics [link]