Alder Yarrow del linkatissimo Vinography ha pubblicato un articolo sui limiti de blogs fai-da-te, per es. Open Bottles and WARPA. Commenta che i siti dedicati alle recensioni vini, proprio dai bloggers, non avranno lunga vita. Dichiara lui che la qualita' delle recensioni e' per lo piu' inferiore, e che gli apprezzamenti di vini specific sono troppo hit-or-miss -- insomma, puoi cercare ma non si sa mai se troverai recensioni dei "tuoi" vini d'interesse.
Puo' darsi ma, a mio parere, Alder guarda la scena da lassu' ma piu' bevitori di vino esistono quaggiu'. E' sofisticato e conosce bene il mondo del vino; ma i molti che sono principianti, no.
Comunque, gli ho risposto segnalando l'esistenza della nuovissima Wine Blog Association.
Ho contraddistinto lo scopo di siti come WARPA and quello della WBA, cui brandisce un'altra strategia informativa, analogica al "distributed processing." Be', ecco il mio commento:
You make some excellent points, Alder.
Some Italian friends and I MAY have hit upon a better way to approach this need for organized wine criticism, etc. The Wine Blog Association has just been started, spearheaded by the well-known Italian wine writer, Franco Ziliani, and a blogger you know well, Giampiero Nadali, alias Aristide. The WBA has several goals, one of which is to gather the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of a lot of people in the wine sector--amateurs, producers, journalists, etc.--under its banner, and to provide easy access to a wealth of opinions, reports, and so on, that might otherwise be overlooked.
Another important goal is to break that "Park-Tator" hegemony you refer to.
The only downside right now in these very earliest days of the association is that all but one of the bloggers (me) writes in Italian. But we are looking to attract bloggers from all over--the American market obviously being a very big object of desire.
I mentioned the "accumulated knowledge and wisdom" of the many contributors. The many viewpoints and types of experience are beneficial for a well-rounded discussion and understanding of wine, and the quality control issue you mention near the top of your article is effectively banished by this approach. It may not be a solution for everyone, but it will serve the majority of wine lovers well, some time, some way.
Applications for membership are being accepted, by the way: wineblogassociation@gmail.com
Regards from Rome, Milan...and New York
Posted by: Terry Hughes at June 16, 2006 04:08 AM [su Vinography]
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