DISQUS

Mateus sure does bring back memories! And so does Lancer, although I didn't care for that one too much but I thought Mateus was the good life. Didn't they have tv commercials about how to pronounce the name - Ma-tay-us or Ma-toosh - or am I just recalling my own conversations? Anyway, Mateus was a favorite of mine for a long time and you can't forget the bottle shape, that's for sure.

In my case I'm really not expecting a lot of readers (I'd like to have a lot, but given the content, no use being optimistic) so sharing my stats isn't a big deal. Also I don't expect to have any advertising and would feel guilty if anyone did want to actually pay me to put something on the site (other than on a pay-per-click basis). The only thing I hope for, other than readership, is that someone is crazy enough to send me samples to review but that seems out of the question. If I had a bigger readership, maybe I wouldn't want to disclose the stats - also, one thing you may not have considered is that those who do have a sizable amount of visitors may not be disclosing their stats out of modesty. Anyway, sorry to ramble on but those are some more thoughts about the matter.

Interesting post.. I got a huge (for me, anyway) spike in my numbers due to one blog post about "knockoff wines" served up by a Korean couple at a (fictitious) wine bar in Santa Monica, CA. One of the owners of Kosta Browne saw it and posted the link on Mark Squire's bulletin board asking if this was for real, which then generated a bunch of traffic to the site. But other than that, I get about 10-15 visits per day. I'm going to take you up on your challenge and make it the subject of my blog post today..

I like your blog just fine! You speak about our being critical of Parker or the Wine Spectator but not among ourselves - true, but then us bloggers are not charging people (and charging them handsomely) to read our material. I'd say you have to consider intent and motives when critiquing a blog - certainly if someone's grammar, spelling or writing style is so atrocious it makes you pity them, then constructive correction is in order. But I feel we can give more leeway and be more forgiving towards bloggers whose writing style/technical ability isn't the greatest. If their heart is in it, then that counts for a lot.


That said, I think we all can improve how we present our content. Heck, I know my posts are bulging from too many words!

Wow, what a wonderful organization they have in Portugal! I wish we had something like that out here (or do we? I'm not aware of one.. maybe there's something in wine country but it would be nice in So Cal). Thanks for a very nice writeup.