Ok, the whole dogs thing is a little weird, but another Virginia wine blogger who is hitting all of the right wineries and makes her own wine...I gotta add the link.

Cool, I am famous - thanks to Amanda (who has a great blog that everyone who eats out in DC should read) for indulging me.

This is my 300th post. These 300 posts have occurred over almost 2 and half years of writing (yes, I am aware for some people, 300 posts is a week's worth of blogging ;)) and drinking. Its amazing as I look back over the time how much has changed, and yet how much as remained constant, that's one of the reasons I love wine :). And, hopefully, like a good wine, my writing only improves over time.

I've made some minor changes to the site. I've removed some blogs that haven't updated in a while and expanded the winery section. While I am rearranging, if you have a blog you want me to link to, just drop me a note.

I am sure you all have have heard the story that Amazon may start selling wine. Others have posted analysis of this, so I won't. But I was curious about this line:

'The US wine market is around $25bn, and only a small percentage is purchased online,' Bergsund said. 'There is plenty of room for Amazon as well as specialty retailers like wine.com.'

I know I may be an anomaly, but I purchase almost as much wine online as I do at retail locations or wineries. I'd be curious to know what percentage of wine sales are done online.

Speaking of Amazon and Winecast, I like the idea of Wine Book Club and picked up the book, I'll post my review as soon as it is done.

Finally, speaking of Amazon and wine books, local author Miles Lambert-Gocs has written a book entitled Desert Island Wines. It is a series of essays about wine, many of them look to be very funny. I'll let you know all know what I think after I have read it

Some Bordeaux videos to keep you busy today, because who wants to work the day after the Superbowl. The English version of the site is a little rough, but the videos there are good as well. In the meantime, you may want to take Buck 65's advice and "Been thinking about brushing up on my french."

Happy belated New Year! I know its been a while and my apologies. I have been sick and not really up to drinking wine, and a wine blog with no wine doesn't really work :). I'll make it up to you over the next couple of days, I pomise.

Unfortunately for us, Leah has moved from DC to San Francisco. The good news is she is keeping up the good blogging work at Slow Food, Taste Life. Check it out.

I know me complaining about lack of postings seems a tad...shall we say...hypocritical, but I really enjoyed the postings at Carolyn Crow's Wine Virgin and I hope she posts again soon.

I promise the second round of my Indianapolis trip is coming soon. In the meantime check out Sonadora and Leah for thoughts on last night's wine club happy hour at Piola. I'll post more tonight.

Pat sent me a link to this post about the Virginia Wine license plate finally coming to fruition. You can order it from the Virginia Winery Association.

While I am plugging other blogs, check out John's Anything Wine