Comments on Grape Observer: Australian wine blogs: surveying the scene in 2012...

Hey Cheers - thanks for the nod. It was the final...

2012-02-11T10:11:46.863+11:00

Hey Cheers - thanks for the nod. It was the final push I needed to do some twitter consolidation and remove the challengingly titled Wine Wankers (it seemed an appropriate choice when I started it about 2 years ago and really only added content at my own leisure).

Lisa - likewise, I haven't added new bloggers to my blog roll for a while, but I do always seem to be unearthing new

Thanks for listing all those wine blogs, Sean. Rea...

2012-02-02T14:53:49.648+11:00

Thanks for listing all those wine blogs, Sean. Really helpful. I run a blog too, but it's about wine, food, photography, Sydney and politics occasionally. Not strictly a wine blog but ... in case you get bored.
:-)

Thanks Lisa and Steve for your thoughts. For me, ...

2012-02-01T21:30:08.979+11:00

Thanks Lisa and Steve for your thoughts. For me, Grape Observer is perhaps more of a "time pit" at this point ;) And Lisa, I too haven't noticed a large expansion of wine blogs in Australia, contrary perhaps to the implication from a post on Drinkster recently suggesting there were 1000s of them. Which there are of course, just not locally in Australia (or at least not that I'

Great article Sean. You make an interesting point ...

2012-01-28T21:51:13.055+11:00

Great article Sean.
You make an interesting point about uncovering Australian Wine blogs and most of those I have come across have been referred from other blogs.
I'm interested in your thoughts how to get greater exposure (my blog www.qwineblog.blogspot.com didn't make the cut! :) )
The beauty of blogs is they engage the reader increasing their knowledge. Social media

You are quite correct in saying that there is some...

2012-01-28T12:29:50.913+11:00

You are quite correct in saying that there is some great content out there. The Australian blogging scene being passionate but still small (as a side - I have not added many to my blog roll in the past 6 months, have you?).

There is always the question of monetisation as you mentioned. However, I think that there is another string to the debate. For myself, as a wine professional, I