Comments on: Storm(hoek) in a teacup!

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By: vino

vino — Tue, 22 May 2007 13:56:34 +0000

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By: Rich...!

Rich...! — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:54:48 +0000

Yeah Clive, I gotta say, I’m with you on this one…!

By: Cru Master

Cru Master — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:31:44 +0000

The wine is really nice – juicy and full of flavour.

got to hand it to them for breaking the norm in the wine industry – they could have handled their exclusion in a better fashion and indeed turned it into good marketing and PR for themselves.

By: Clive Simpkins

Clive Simpkins — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:22:28 +0000

I find Stormhoek to be excessively self-promoting. Their marketing dude is an old fart like me and I wonder why they’re pitching the wine at such a young generation, whilst not using someone who looks the part for that generation, to do so? Weird.

In fact, what the hell are they REALLY doing for Geek or other communities other than using a tax deductible ‘promo’ opportunity to punt their vino?

There’s something icky and smarmy about how they do what they do. That’s just a personal perspective.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:34:18 +0000

Thanks for the links Rich and Stii!

By: Stii

Stii — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:56:00 +0000

Good points. And to be brutaly honest, until yesterday I did not read much on Stormhoek’s blog. I did however subscribe to their feeds. So I guess I’ll be an avid Stormhoek blog supporter from now on. For the record, I was hooked on the wine from the first taste.

My issue as far as you, Vincent, Charl, Swimgeek Justin and a whole bunch of others that are not on there is partly due to involvement issues and a whole lot due to the nominations had to come off the top of people’s blocks. I personally sat in front of the nominations page 4 times. The forth being the day nominations closed and had to compile a list of nominations there-and-then. There is a whole lot of blogs I forgot, which I remembered later and if I could have I would have submitted them too, but that would then have replaced my first nominations and, quite frankly, I would not have remembered who all I nominated in the first place! (Yeah, I got a mind like a sift.)

As far as the involvement issue goes, Paul from Wired Gecko said it better than what I was trying to:

http://wiredgecko.net/2007/03/the-controversial-2007-sa-blog-awards/

By: KenW

KenW — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:58:19 +0000

Just to clarify, when you pointed to the 100 Top Wine Blogs rankings as an example of disagreeing with your opinion, I just wanted to let you know, as the author of that, I do not disagree (or agree). As it says on the main ranking page: "...they [the rankings] are general quantitative ratings of popularity and do not measure quality of content or frequency of updates, which can be better determined by visiting The Wine Blogs Tasting Room" (or in this case, the Winery Blogs Updates.