Back At It... A New Day, a New Deal, a New Web Site
Back At It... A New Day, a New Deal, a New Web Site
Relaunch of the B.C. Pinot Noir blog
For those who followed and read my previous blog bcpinotnoir.com created in 2013, you might have been aware that it had been rather quiet over the last few years. Starting in 2020, my postings were chiefly about the pinot noirs to be found at the Vancouver Wine Festival. Absent were the regular panel tastings and stories from time to time about wineries or events related to B.C. pinot noir.
The tastings, intended to be an ongoing survey of all B.C. pinot noirs, always contained side by side comparisons to equivalent level pinot noirs from around the world and were the main focus. Unfortunately, those panel tastings were interrupted by covid and then in the midst of that, life got in the way… in a big way, that left me stopped on a siding well off the main track.
Still, my fascination with wine in general and B.C. pinot noir in particular remained and I managed to continue doing some interviewing for my long gestating book on B.C. Pinot Noir.
Finally, I am back onto a more central track. Changing the web site from my old Wordpress platform to this new one is part of this renewal going forward.
All the posts from the previous bcpinotnoir.com blog have been brought over to this new one bcpinotnoirinfo.com
The reason for the change to Substack is twofold. Substack is built from the ground up make it as easy as possible for writers to create, communicate and publish easily and frequently. Unlike other blog software platforms, Substack has a subscription based newsletter component that fuses a newsletter with a blog i.e. every edition of a newsletter written, goes out to subscribers and is also automatically added to a blog as you see here. This and a host of other features greatly frees a writer from the admin and technicalities of a blog and/or a newsletter and gives one more time to focus on the writing.
Secondly, being subscription based (free or paid - BC Pinot Noir is free), provides an opportunity to connect more easily with like-minded readers, not only with the written word but through podcasts, sound files, video, charts, polls, voice versions of articles and more. There are also easily accessed features for dialogue, not only through a comments section but through a Twitter like feature called Notes.
The bottom line is that I can tell the ongoing story of pinot noir in British Columbia more easily, more often and in a more varied way than before.
Coming Soon… This ability to publish more easily and more often means that aside from panel tastings I will begin doing my own reviews of individual pinot noirs, as well as providing more in-depth articles on B.C. pinot noir wineries, vineyards, winemakers and more.
So please tune in, tell anyone you know who might be interested and subscribe to get the latest on B.C. pinot noir.