The links to DLW 2011: Missouri from around the cyber-ether:
• Check out the Twitter hash tag, #DLWMO, where are there are literally thousands of tweets about the wines and the weekends.
• Olivia Wilder's live Internet-cast from the Twitter Taste-off, with special guest co-host Todd Kliman. Click on the radio player on the linked page.
• Russ Kane of Vintage Texas: "I can also assure you that our new 'locapour' movement can and will eventually join 'locavore' as its new conjoined twin."
• Jeff Siegel, the Wine Curmudgeon and DLW co-founder: "Or, as Eric V. Orange, the founder and CEO of LocalWineEvents.com said to me, as we watched what was going on in middle-aged disbelief: 'Wow. I never imagined it would be like this.' "
• Tom Johnson, Louisville Juice: "And that, in a nutshell, is Missouri’s strategy: they’re going to make Missouri wine rather than pale imitations of California’s. They propose their wines not as a substitute, but as something unique that broadens the spectrum of wine as a whole. Without mentioning the word, they’re making what is essentially a terroir argument."
• Trish Meyer, Discovering Midwest Wines: "What an amazing day! – great Missouri wines, wonderful conversation, and an especially unique camaraderie with others who shared our love of good wine."
• Christian Schiller, Schiller-Wine: "But I found out during the 4 days that Missouri produces top-flight wine, although it does so with few European (vitis vinifera) grapes –- such as Chardonnay or Merlot -- in sight."
• Dave McIntyre in the Washington Post: "The DrinkLocalWine.com conference on Saturday was a ton of fun, providing bloggers and writers from across the country a weekend immersion in Missouri wine."
• Mary Bloch, Around the Block: "Were all of the wines worth drinking? No. Some reinforced my previously held view that many Missouri wines can’t hold a candle to my favorite California, Oregon or Washington state wines, but others definitely surprised me."
• Dave Falchek, Empty Bottles blog: Norton is "an all-American grape that dominated the pre-prohibition wine industry. Norton is not native like Concord, Norton comes from a different native grape lineage. American grapes have a thin bench, but Norton without a doubt makes the best red wine."
• Jay Biletti, Arizona Vines & Wines: "If you haven’t tasted a hybrid-based wine recently you should; you are in for a treat."
• Joe Pollack, Palate Press: "If the DLW people have their wish, it is only that wine-lovers who travel will sample the wines from places they visit rather than settling for “a Chardonnay” or “a red,” or something else that turns out to be a second-rate jug wine."
