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Journalists vs. Bloggers: The Debate Continues

There has been a history of unfriendliness between print wine writers and the relatively new world of wine bloggers. Well-established writers such as Robert Parker and Anthony Dias Blue have both attacked bloggers in the past, using the best tools they know: words.
Since speaking out at odds with the blogger community, they have both adjusted [...]

What Exactly are the Rules for Collecting Emails?

Retail stores have the often difficult task of trying to collect email addresses from their customers (or potential customers) so that the store can alert them of sales, tastings, and other special events but at what point does that hunger for emails cross a line?
I was recently in a situation where I started following an [...]

The Grape Identity Crisis

In the past month, I’ve been doing some work with our master grape list. I knew it was a super huge task, but the more I learned and dove into it, the bigger the project revealed itself to be. One of the huge issues with keeping content about wines clean and streamlined is that there [...]

The Difficulty of Obtaining Wine Content

First off, let me introduce myself. My name is Amanda Maynard and I’m the newest member to the BevSites office in Cambridge, MA. My job includes a number of duties, but here are a few of the biggies: content collection, matching from our database to store inventory for websites on our system, managing new sites [...]