L.A. Wine – the concept.

Hi Folks

My idea for this site stems from the LA Times ditching regular local wine coverage.

One thing I was thinking about doing is a hybrid site like http://foodandwineblog.com/ that covers wine and food in LA but looks at the more obscure or atypical angle: a-la Tony Bourdain meets “Bizarre Foods” with Andrew Zimmern.

We could cover wine events, restaurants, tastings bars, etc – whatever we define as the format of the site.

Let’s use the comments section below to talk about ideas and possibilities.

This site can be reached with these URLs:

www.wine-la.com and www.la-wine.com

Whatever the format of this site will be (as a product of our collaboration) I would like this site to fill the void in food and wine writing that the LA Times recently created.

Another point I’d like to bring up is what to we want to accomplish with this site?

• Do we want a casual community blog that chronicles our experiences and foibles in wine and offers opinion-driven content from enthusiast-authors?

• Do we want something with a journalistic culture, an editorial direction and with potential permanence – a journalistic serious player that follows these principles: http://www.redwinebuzz.com/faq.htm#wiaip?

Let’s see where we go with this.