• 2010 Wine Blog Award finalists: The nomination process is still a bit unwieldy, but the finalists have been announced -- five each in eight categories. You can vote here. And no, the Wine Curmudgeon was not nominated. But I'll always have my squirrel award.
• What about wine blogging? The prestigious Columbia Journalism Review has looked at wine blogging and rehashes the usual arguments. It also includes this, one of the silliest lines that may ever have been written about wine writing: "Wine is, after all, a complex drink, and it needs to be analyzed in a complex way, usually by someone with a deep understanding of wine or by someone with credentials, such as a WSET advanced degree." The writer is kidding, right? I'm going to write more about this, probably next week.
• British want minimum pricing: The new British government's decision to ban "below cost" alcohol sales has garnered the support of the Tesco supermarket chain, the third largest retailer in the world and Britain's biggest, reports Decanter. The minimum pricing policy is aimed at cutting booze consumption and thereby alcoholism. It has been quite controversial in Britain, where many retailers sell beer for less than it costs them, and for as much as bottled water.
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