The Top 5 Things I Read About Wine This Week

Here's a wrap-up of 5 interesting things I came across in my online reading this week:

1. @1WineDude talking about Snooth. I'm very interested in the wine niche social networking space, so this piece was timely:
   
   http://1winedude.blogspot.com/2009/02/rise-of-snoothcom-or-get-on-virtual.html
   
   
2. An older entry from Steve Heimoff from Wine Enthusiast that devolves into a discussion about whether Wine Spectator arranges their blind tastings by price and reputation, and then what I think is a really great response from Thomas Matthews from Wine Spectator:
   
   http://www.steveheimoff.com/?p=1049
   
   
3. A thoughtful review of the Soirée Wine Decanter:
   
   http://www.drinkdrycreek.com/?p=404
   
   
4. Two pieces from @RicahrdPF, The Passionate Foodie. First, a heads-up that Attorney General Coakley was planning to appeal recent positive changes to MA wine shipping laws. Second, a review of a book about wine laws. I didn't realize Richard was an attorney- I'll be hitting him up with wine shipping questions for sure:
   
   http://passionatefoodie.blogspot.com/2009/02/attorney-general-road-block.html
   
   http://passionatefoodie.blogspot.com/2009/02/little-red-book-of-wine-law-review.html

Question of the Day: What was most interesting thing you've read about wine lately?