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By Lenn Thompson, Editor-in-Chief Evan Dawson, our Finger Lakes Editor, and I have been working hard to get all of the plans and details together for this year's edition of TasteCamp EAST, taking place May 7-9 in Finger Lakes wine country. The concept for TasteCamp is a simple one — getting enthusiastic bloggers together in a region that is new to them to taste as much wine as possible and speak to as many winemakers as possible over the course of a weekend. Most smaller, lesser-known wine regions in the world would love to get their wines in front of…

By Lenn Thompson, Editor-in-Chief  It's been almost two months since we announced that TasteCamp EAST 2010 will take place in the Finger Lakes region of New York, so I thought it was a good idea to mention it again here on the site.  I know a few bloggers missed the original announcement. With so much more ground to cover — literally — during 2010's event, we'll probably begin the formal programming Friday afternoon and extend it well into Sunday this year.  We already have 40 bloggers and spouses/significant others signed up to come, so if you're interested, make sure you…

 By Lenn Thompson Photo courtesy of Dale Cruse When Megan Witherspoon attended TasteCamp EAST 2009, she didn't have a blog. She was simply the better half to Virginia-based blogger John Witherspoon (that's the wine blogging power couple at right). But, not long after the event, she  started her new blog, Wine Conscience, one of the few blogs that I read every day. She uses her blog to support and celebrate environmentally friendly winemaking. Megan is a fine artist-turned-corporate workhorse, who maintains her sanity with the help of fine wine. Megan's family also owns, Woodland Vineyard, a small vineyard and winery in…

Forgive the gap in getting this TasteCamp interviews posted. There are still a few to come, but I'll probably space them out a bit, now that we're relatively distant from the event itself. Today's interviewee is a fellow New Yorker, Nick Gorevic. As with many of the East Coast-based wine bloggers, I had to go to Santa Rosa, CA last fall for the 2008 Wine Bloggers Conference to meet him. Nick is works in a retail wine store in Manhattan, and runs Homewineschool.com, a business that provides everything you need to educate yourself about wine in the privacy of your…

Becky Borichevsky, who is better known in some circles as Taster B, is our TasteCamp interviewee this Monday morning. Becky started Smells Like Grape with her husband Steve (Taster A) in 2007 to document their exploration of wine. Becky felt that wine and blogging were a natural fit because good wine is endlessly inspiring. When not twittering, or blogging, Becky works in QA on Boston’s North Shore. Was this your first time to Long Island wine country?Yes, it was. Had you ever had any Long Island wines before? And if so, what was your impression of them?Yes, I’d had a…

I just wanted to post an updated list of TasteCamp-related blog posts written by attendees. New ones are being published every day, so check the permanent TasteCamp page that I've created to get the latest and greatest. The list, as of around lunchtime today: Becky and Steve Borichevsky of Smells Like Grape Back From TasteCamp East The Way I See It Richard Auffrey from Passionate Foodie: TasteCamp EAST: Initial Highlights Taste Camp East: Long Island Wines Rob Bralow from Wine Post: Absolutely and Totally Geeked Out Walking into the Tsunami – TasteCamp East 2009 Day One Taste Camp – Roanoke…