Changes to this Blog

"Hello" to all of our Vintage Connections Wine Info readers

If you are looking for the answers to last week's Quiz, go to our blog, the Grapevine, in the Pottstown Mercury.

Congratulations to Maureen and Joe Freed, the winners of this quiz.   They chose the $20 Gift Certificate from Pinnacle Ridge Winery. 

As many of our readers know, there is usually no difference between (among?) this blog, our Grapevine blog in the Mercury, and our weekly newsletter.  Well, to quote a philosopher-poet many of us know and love,  times they are a changin' (and hopefully for the better).

We are not changing the Grapevine blog or our Weekly Wine Info E-Newsletter.  Each will have essentially the same info as they do now (identical to each other).  That usually includes reviews of two wines we've recently enjoyed, a short calendar of Up-coming Events, and a Fun Fact.  If you want that information automatically emailed to you each week, be sure to sign-up for the newsletter.  If you'd rather go looking for that new information when you want it, use the Grapevine.

The revised Vintage Connection Wine Info blog will have different material than the Grapevine and newsletter.  As we have open enrollment wine classes and events approaching as we do now, we'll provide more detailed information about the class content, approach, the wines we'll be tasting, and other information related to our classes, events, and the wines we'll be using. 

Also, we're adding a new section to this blog entitled What We've Been Drinking where we'll list and rate the wines we've tasted during the past week or two, letting you know which ones we'd buy again and which ones we'll skip in the future.  This section may be difficult for us to maintain, since sometimes we drink (or at least taste) a dozen or more wines each week.  We'd also like to implore our readers to blog back about what you've been drinking and what you think of the wines you've recently sampled.  In this section we'll also write about Where We've Been Drinking and sometimes What We've Been Reading,  (about wine).

Lastly, we may not post the revised Vintage Connections Wine Info blog every week.  Sometimes we won't have time to write about our classes or what we've been drinking, or the wineries we may have visited, or the wine book we read recently. But, we hope what we write is interesting and may motivate you to read this blog and the Grapevine, or our newsletter.
 
One of the wonderful characteristics of blogs is that writers can easily change them.  So, let us know what you think of this revised blog, and also of our Grapevine blog and newsletter. We are willing and able to make changes to make these publications more interesting and useful to our readers and friends.

Later this week, maybe next week, or sometime soon, check back for our new, revised, (and we hope improved) Vintage Connections Wine Info blog (maybe it's time to set-up a RSS feed or other of those technological exercises we don't really understand).

Happy and Responsible Wine Drinking!!

Dean and Lisa Foster