Starting Anew at the New York Cork Report
Photo courtesy of Heart & Hands Wine Company
Things have been a bit quiet here on the site. I know it. The whole team knows it, actually. It’d be easy to blame it on the babies (four in the the past 15 months) that have joined various staff members’ families. Or maybe on my recent move to a new NYCR world headquarters. Moving stinks. Moving with two young children is exponentially worse.
But reasons or excuses don’t matter at this point. Today is the first day of the rest of this website’s life. The entire team is committed ready to dive back into the site with gusto. We’re bringing back What We Drank tomorrow and will get back to regular programming this week as well.
There was a brief moment a few weeks ago when it almost went the other way. NYCR almost shuttered its virtual windows — but there are too many stories to be told. Too many people, places and passions to be uncovered and explored. The New York “local” movement deserves the attention we can give it.
Our job isn’t done. We hope that you’ll forgive us for our semi-hiatus and be more vocal than ever about what you think about what we write and what you want from us.
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Hi Lenn et al,
Thanks for the news. We do follow this website closely, and I comment as often as I can. Your frank apologia brought me back to 1990, when my wife and I, and two very young children, lived in 4 different countries in the space of 7 months – something I would not recommend to anyone. If blogs had existed then, and I had had one, it would have been the first thing to have been jettisoned. Take it easy, and we will still read the blog.
- Peter
Lenn,
One can certainly understand the fatigue – you’ve been busy. This blog has expanded much beyond its original focus, and now provides great content from all corners and several segments of the NYS wine & food world. I found my way here because of a passion for Finger Lakes wine, but keep coming back for all of the great news, stories and photographs you produce.
And certainly don’t apologize for going MIA. You shouldn’t produce content to a schedule, anyway. Isn’t that forcing things a bit? Great content can pour in, or trickle, and should be published accordingly. That’s the beauty of this online thing. Space is free. (Everything else isn’t!).
I’ll look forward to even more great content, when you and the team feel ready. Oh, except for that Dawson guy, keep your thumb on him. We need more great FL wine coverage!
Best Regards,
Mike
I appreciate your collective recommitment to this worthy publication. It would have been missed, had it indeed been shuttered. Which makes me even more curious about what’s remains unsaid, the hinge on which this story turns, viz., why you thought you might shutter NYCR, and why you did not, and where you plan to find the strength to rally to the cause. It’s a question I grapple with amidst my own tangle of deadlines and family commitments and the vexing occupations that seem more urgent than cultural commentary. But culture does need that commentary—and so do the commentators themselves.
Cheers,
Meg
Glad to hear y’all are back in the saddle.
Thanks for not throwing in the towel! I would have really missed this site.
Lenn and the rest of the NYCR team – thanks very much for keeping this site going. It’s something I greatly enjoy and I’d miss it very much if it was discontinued. Maintain whatever publishing pace the team can reasonably manage. A lesser amount of a quality product is better than none of that product. thanks Dana
Lenn – not an option pal. Do you know that every new-hire salesrep at Winebow knows that I look at this web-site nearly every morning (THE list is 1) NY Cork Report 2) Oanda – Currency Exchange 3) Wine Business 4) Wines and Vines and so on…) and that I suggest every rep in all our markets read this site at least once a month. Why? It is very simple, if you want one stop shopping to figure out what is going on this emerging region (Finger Lakes, Hudson Valley and LI) then this is the GO-TO reference. If it makes the major press, WS, then it is too late for them. They, our salesreps, have to stay ahead of the curve and you, The Cork Report Team, give them that ability.
Thanks for the work you do.
RR