Winery Blogs: The List as of August 1, 2008

I have a list of winery blogs in my RSS reader (www.bloglines.com), as well as The List (our comprehensive list of winery blogs).  I get e-mails from folks telling me about new winery blogs, and I have a Google alert set for the search phrase "winery blog" which occasionally turns up something new.

Sometimes these things get out of synch.  Today I got them all back in agreement.  There are quite a few additions to The List, so I thought I'd mention all 93 (!!) of the wineries with blogs:

1. 4 Bears Winery
2. Ambyth Estate
3. Anne Amie Vineyards
4. Anomaly Vineyards
5. Argyle Winery
6. Atelier Winery
7. August Briggs Wines
8. Bedrock Wine Co.
9. Calais Winery
10. Chateau Julien
11. Chateau Rives-Blanques
12. Clos LaChance
13. Cima Collina (Cellar Rap)
14. Coral Mustang (Tempranillo Tango)
15. Cortes de Cima
16. Coturri Winery
17. Crofut Family Winery (Traveling Crofut Wine Bottle)
18. David Coffaro Estate Vineyard (The Winemaker's Diary)
19. Domaine de la Gramiere
20. Donati Family Vineyards
21. A Donkey and Goat (Jared and Tracey Making Wine)
22. Dover Canyon Winery
23. Dry Creek Vineyard (Wilma's Wine World)
24. Eno (Winemaking Journal)
25. Escafeld Vineyards (Vineyard Diary)
26. Fantesca Estate & Winery
27. Far Niente (Terroir: Dirty Talk About Wine)
28. Farella Vineyard
29. Flying Trout
30. Foursight Wines
31. Freedom Run Winery
32. Goosecross Cellars (Napa Valley Wine Radio)
33. Grgich Hills Estate
34. Haskell Vineyards
35. Indian Creek Winery
36. J Vineyards and Winery
37. Jorian Hill Vineyard
38. Judd's Hill (Judd's MicroCrush Blog)
39. Kinkead Ridge Estate Winery
40. Kosta Browne Winery
41. Lafond / Santa Barbara Winery (Wine & Vineyards)
42. Longview Winery and Vineyard
43. Lost Canyon Winery
44. Lynfred Winery and Bed & Breakfast (In the Land of Lynfred)
45. Maison des Bulliats (It's My Vineyard)
46. Mankas Hills Vineyards
47. Maple River Winery
48. Mark Morretti Winery
49. Match Vineyards (Vintner's Journal)
50. Michel-Schlumberger Wine Estate (Benchland Blog)
51. Monticello Vineyards (Corley Blog)
52. Mountain Spirit Vineyards
53. Notaviva Vineyards
54. Nuyaka Creek (Oklahoma Wine News)
55. Othmer Vineyard
56. Pepper Bridge Winery
57. Perrin / Beaucastel (The Perrin Family Weblog)
58. pinotblogger (The Capozzi Winery Blog)
59. Preston Vineyards (Lou's Musings)
60. Puccioni Vineyards (Mule News)
61. Quady Winery
62. Robledo Family Winery
63. Roshambo
64. Sainte Genevieve Winery (A Day in the Life of a Missouri Winery)
65. Salado Winery
66. Sampson Valley Vineyard
67. Sebastiani Vineyards and Winery
68. Segue Cellars (Big In The Mouth)
69. Selene Wines
70. Seufert Winery
71. Six Strings Winery
72. Sokol Blosser
73. Stefania Wine
74. Stormhoek
75. Tablas Creek Vineyard
76. Three Rivers Winery
77. Tolosa Winery (Put A Cork In It)
78. Travessia Urban Winery
79. Twisted Oak Winery (El Bloggo Torcido - The Twisted Blog)
80. Vellum Wines
81. Verge Wine Cellars
82. Via Vecchia (We Stomp)
83. Vilafonte
84. Westwood Winery (Notes From The Winemaker)
85. Whitehall Lane Winery
86. Whitestone Winery
87. Willamette Valley Vineyards
88. Wind River Cellars
89. Wise Acres Winery
90. Wood Family Vineyards
91. Woodland Vineyard (Oak Barrel News)
92. Wyandotte Winery
93. Zabibu 

Names in italics lack an RSS feed, i.e. you can't subscribe to them.  Names in bold have been previously mentioned in this blog, e.g. in a "New Winery Blog:" post.  Unfortunately, I don't have the very first version of the list so that I can mark those who have been there from the start.  In any event, those names which are not highlighted in some where are either very new to the list, or have been there from the start.

To visit any of the above blogs, please use The List (which has links).

Comments

[David Topper]

Note: Napa Valley Wine Radio (Goosecross Cellars) is a Blog and a Podcast. Both with RSS Feeds and the Podcast is available through iTunes and other Podcast aggregators as well.

[David Topper]

Another excellent directory may be found at: http://wine.alltop.com/

[Tim Elliott]

Windsor Vineyards has also recently launched at blog; check it out here:

http://carpevino.wordpress.com/

That makes 94... when will we reach 100?

[Mike Duffy]

David: I agree that a written blog, an audio podcast, and a video podcast are all different. An excellent point!

Tim: Thanks for the pointer!

[Iris]

Good compilation. I clicked through all of them - there are some, who seem to be inactive for some months, or even years, but the great majority of the rest is worth a detour.

Some are even "international", as they come from wineries in South Africa, Portugal or my country, the South of France and are just written i English - but it's good, to have worldwide news about grapes and wine:-).

Personally, I like those, who have a more personal touch beyond: this is our wine, you can find it here and here and we have a special event at our place... which are News, you can as well put on your website. But by reading through the others (and just the latest postings, I felt very close to a great variety of serious and humorous people, who talk with sincerity about their daily work, pleasures and sorrows - with a special mention to all those Californian colleagues, who had to live at the fire front during this last weeks...

So thanks for the compilation and thanks here to all those, who write such interesting blogs about their daily passion!

[Christina]

Thank you so much for adding us to your list! I have been getting quite a few visits from it.

[john]

Most winery podcast's are lame. Goosecross's basically is just reading their sell sheets. It's amazing to me that so many wineries don't get the fact that people might want to comment on their product.
Too bad.

[David Topper]

Wow. The comment posted by John is written by a person who has NEVER listed to Napa Valley Wine Radio podcasts since those podcasts are never about Goosecross products (although they are mentioned from time to time for practical reference). Many of our podcasts include remarkable guest speakers such as Silicon Valley Bank, Scion Advisors, Peter Marks (Master of Wine), Culinary Getaways, Steve Sando from Rancho Gordo, George Taber, Darrell Corti, Marshall’s Farm honey, and many others.

A tremendous amount of time and energy goes into the production of a professional podcast and we purposefully named it Napa Valley Wine Radio so that it would not be Goosecross centric.

Fortunately, we have thousands of monthly subscribers that "subscribe" to Napa Valley Wine Radio on a monthly basis to benefit from Nancy's 25 plus years of experience in wine education as well as the thoughts and advice from other food and wine industry experts on various topics having nothing to do with our Goosecross wines.

Lastly, for those that wish to "comment" on our product... the wine Blogosphere is ready for those comments as well as the Goosecross blog and... all comments are welcome... especially those that come from an educated and constructive perspective.

[Tim Elliott]

Most wineries DON'T do podcasts... Goosecross is almost the lone exception. And what they have put out over nearly 3 years has not been anything close to a "sell sheet."

In my opinion, the problem is not "lame" winery podcasts but the lack of the genre.

Disclosure: I work with Goosecross and other wineries on social media projects and am a wine podcaster myself.

[Shane Wilson]

Great list, but I noticed you still have the inactive URL for the Stormhoek blog. It should be dot co dot za and not dot com.

Again. Well done for putting together such a comprehensive list.