If you were to describe your wine blog in one word, what would it be? Wine Bloggers were asked this at the 2010 Wine Bloggers Conference in Walla Walla, Washington in June of 2010.

Watch Steve Heimoff of the Wine Enthusiast & SteveHeimoff.com, Tom Wark of Fermentation, Paul Gregutt of Unfined & Unfiltered, and Reno Walsh of Zephyr Adventures flip through these blogger expressions in a fun video that shares highlights from the conference along with the energy and excitement of the Wine Blogging Community.

We look forward to seeing you all once again at the 2011 Wine Bloggers Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia,  July 22 – 24.  Over sixty wine bloggers have already registered for the 2011 event. We encourage everyone to follow suit and register now. We would much rather see your smiling face on a 2011 conference highlights video instead of The Wait List.

A special thanks goes out to Lisa Mattson and Laura Petersen of Jordan Vineyard & Winery for capturing, editing and creating this wonderful video along with all the other great conference content & highlights found on the Wine Bloggers YouTube Channel including Steve Heimoff’s Keynote, Jeffrey Saad’s Food & Wine Pairing and Video Diaries from Jeff Lefevere, Josh Wade, Ward Kadel, and that dude Joe Roberts, to name a few. Thank You!

We made the Associated Press today. One of the benefits of moving the conference to Charlottesville in 2011 is the Virginia state government is really gung ho about promoting both its wine and tourism industries. And we are already feeling the benefits.

I received a letter a few weeks ago from Virginia’s Secretary of Agriculture, Todd Haymore, giving us his support to have the conference in Virginia. I sent him a thank you email after we had publicly announced the conference would be in Charlottesville and he promptly responded – on Monday, a holiday. The next day, the Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s press secretary contacted me and 24 hours after that, with my help, they had released a press release announcing the 2011 conference location. Hence the AP pickup.

We have been in full swing since the Walla Walla conference ended, 10 short days ago. We already have 31 people registered for next year, almost all of them Citizen Bloggers. That doesn’t count our organizers or initial sponsors. I haven’t even had a chance to analyze the survey results but will get to that soon!

- Allan