PnP Featured on NatalieMaclean.com!

3 07 2011

PnP: mentioned in passing by legit professional wine websites since 2011.

It’s been an extremely exciting day for PnP, which received a shot in the arm of national legitimacy by being featured on what may be the best-known and most-visited Canadian wine website on the Net:  NatalieMaclean.com.  I’ve mentioned this site once before on Pop & Pour, listing its label-scanning iPhone/Blackberry app as one of my 3 must-have free wine apps back in mid-May; this revamped app was released as part of a site-wide update by Natalie MacLean which also included a heightened focus on the online wine community.  The new Natalie MacLean site has a “Connect” page where people can create accounts and post wine reviews for others to read, and every couple of weeks NM Connect features two wine bloggers with independent websites that Natalie has deemed (at least) un-horrible.  If you scroll down to the bottom of this page, you’ll see that PnP is one of the featured blogs of the week!

http://www.nataliemaclean.com/connect

If you click on my name in the “Featured Bloggers” box, you can see condensed versions of many of my Pop & Pour reviews, as well as some older write-ups.  Thanks so much to Natalie MacLean for the shout out…next step:  finding out from her how to get hundreds of thousands of hits and oodles of ad revenue!  Hope everyone had a fantastic long weekend!


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3 Cool Free Wine Apps

15 05 2011

Wine information is everywhere.  If you know where to look, it’s easier to learn about wine now than it has ever been:  if you grab the right books and magazines, go to the right shops, visit the right websites (say, a friendly neighbourhood wine blog), or if you have a smartphone, download the right apps, you can bring the world of wine to you with relatively little effort.  You shouldn’t feel like you have to completely immerse yourself in wine learning unless you have a genuine interest in doing so, but a little bit of knowledge will go a long way towards demystifying restaurant wine lists and crossing the thresholds of wine boutiques without intimidation.  I’ve previously discussed three great wine books that would make a great starting point to your wine education; tonight I’m going 21st century and looking at three killer wine apps that cost nothing but provide a ton of information and entertainment about everybody’s favourite topic. Read the rest of this entry »


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