Napa and Sonoma seem ripe for the picking.
Maybe I'm just not aware of it, but I don't know of a wine blog that focuses its energy and words on either Napa Valley or Sonoma County exclusively. It's not as though these two rather large regions, home to immense amounts of winemaking energy, wines, and wine lover focus, don't have enough going on in them to justify the attention of a single blog.
I couldn't stop marveling at this seeming omission in the blogosphere when I came across The Cork Board blog. It's new. But it wants to be THE blog of Napa Valley. How could the authors of this new, well written, interesting blog possibly find themselves in a position to quite easily be the blogging voice of Napa Valley wine without having to compete with any other similarly positioned blogs?
I don't have enough fingers and toes to count the people I'm personally aware of who, if they chose to make the effort, could easily post with authority three or four times a day on one of the most dynamic winemaking regions on the globe.
So does the Cork Board have what it takes? They just might. A quick look at the site will show that a whole variety of Napa-related topics are covered without spending much time at all reviewing wine after wine, which would be the easy way out for a blogger focusing on a region. Yet all one needs to do to realize there is a better way to cover a region is look at Lenndevours' approach to covering the world of New York Wines.
The Cork Board has a similar feel to it as LennDevours. That means it has great potential. I've added it to my blog reader because I'm very interested to see how this new Napa-centered blog will develop. I'm curious to see if the folks behind it have the potential to explore Napa Valley in a probing entertaining and enlightening way.
I love these kind of finds. Nothing is more inspiring than real, honest-to-goodness potential.
