Chicago Tribune
by By Robin Mather Jenkins, Chicago Tribune
On the Web: Wine lovers will want to bookmark localwineevents.com, a five-year-old company that posts wine events at cities all over the world (114 in Chicago when we checked on Feb. 24; just one in China). Founder Eric V. Orange worked for 20 years in the wine business and boasts more than nine million hits each month. The site is free and no registration is required.
Wall Street Journal
by Dorothy J. Gaiter And John Brecher
.... So, how do you find a wine class? It's impossible for us to recommend any specific classes, but it's clear that it's a buyer's market today if you're willing to do some homework. One place to start is LocalWineEvents.com. It's chock full of classes, listed state by state. Look closely to separate one-night tastings from multi-class courses. There is much to learn at one-shot tastings, but you might learn more in a short time in a course that meets several times because the comfort factor increases each week.....
Creative Loafing
by Taylor Eason
..... Most of the others produced by the Google (“wine”) search are so mired in snobbish winespeak that I gag. Explore with caution, as the attitude is contagious. Not located by the search, for whatever reason, are two other useful sites: appellationamerica.com and localwineevents.com…. Localwineevents.com is a national site that lists wine events in cities across America. The listing is free for the event organizers and free to you, as well. This way, you'll never be without the juice.
La Times
by Valli Herman
"Tastings are a powerful promotional tool for hotels, restaurants and other businesses. (Many are listed on LocalWineEvents.com)."
Winerywebsitereport.com
by Mike Duffy
If you own a winery, one way to get (free!) publicity for your events is via LocalWineEvents.com. I've even used it to raise awareness of a fund-raising event that my spouse is organizing for our daughter's school. I also believe that RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is A Good Thing, as Ms. Stewart would say, and I'm pleased to tell you that the latest iteration of LocalWineEvents.com provides an RSS feed (i.e. automatic updates - all you need is an RSS reader like Bloglines) for each city and region that they cover. You can even add their list of events to your Web site, as a service to your visitors. Anyway, if you hold events at your winery, you could do worse that posting them on LocalWineEvents.com. to gain additional visibility (or take advantage of their ticket selling ability). Joe Bob says "Check it out!" (By the way, I have no affiliation with LocalWineEvents.com, other than having used it to post my own event, and being a recipient of their e-mail notifications for Sonoma County.)
Wine.about.com
by Stacy Slinkard
The Local Wine Events website has been pointing wine lovers to wine events in their local communities for the last five years. However, the site has undergone some significant changes making it even easier to navigate and find wine events both locally and internationally. It's like your personal wine calendar and more!
Wine Lovers Page
by Robin Garr
There's a simple, pragmatic reason why I don't include a comprehensive calendar of wine events among the features on WineLoversPage.com: There's no point. One of our longtime friends and fellow Internet wine-information publishers, Eric Orange, fills this niche so well with his impressive LocalWineEvents.com that it makes more sense to refer readers in his direction if they want to list - or learn about - wine-related events anywhere around the world. LocalWineEvents.com has just unveiled a major renovation and update that adds a number of new sections to its worldwide calendar of events. New features include information about Wine and Food Educators, Ongoing Events in specific cities, event Ticket Discounts, and a new weekly wine quiz presented by the author and wine educator Kevin Zraly, available only in "The Juice," the free weekly newsletter from LocalWineEvents.com. Here's a link to the site. I highly recommend bookmarking http://LocalWineEvents.com For more information and to subscribe to "The Juice," click: http://www.localwineevents.com/be_notified.php
Dr. Vino's Wine Blog
by Tyler Colman Aka Dr Vino
It's Friday and you might be wondering what sort of wine events are available near you tonight. LocalWineEvents.com is an excellent resource for checking out what's happening near you be it at a wine shop, bar, shop or other locale. Started five years ago by the affable Eric V. Orange, the site has listed over 50,000 wine events. And a new site redesign last month has added more content and made the navigation easier and better looking (though it is still dense text). In fact, there are so many events listed, a search tool sorting by neighborhood or by wine theme may soon be necessary. It's also a useful way to find out what's going on in other cities. Whether you're jetting off to Tulsa (yes there actually are two events in Tulsa) or Cape Town (23 events) you can use the site to scope out the wine scene before touching down. Or if you want to feel proud of your local wine scene or cofirm your suspicion that it needs a vino infusion, you can also see where your city stands in the global rankings. Right now, New York City is leading the charts with 146 events, Los Angeles second with 106, and Chicago third with 77 events. The best part might just be that it is free--for both consumers and event organizers. I recently had an event in Chicago and one in New York and many attendees had come through the localwineevnts listings. A free, action-packed database? Now that's some technology we can all raise our glasses to!
Monterey County Weekly
by Ray Napolitano
ANTHONY DIAS BLUE, a big shot writer in the food and wine game, recently gave props on WCBS Newsradio in New York and KFWB Newsradio in LA to a great Web site, www.localwineevents.com. If you’ve never checked it out, do so. It lists hundreds of events around the world (including the Monterey Beer Festival).
Anthony Dias Blue
by Anthony Dias Blue
Aren't you tired of co-workers saying to you "Dude, I went to this, like, amazing wine tasting last night with killer Merlot 'n stuff - you really missed it." Kinda makes you feel left out of the loop, doesn't it? Well, get with the program and check out localwineevents.com on the Internet. I just did a quick check today, and there were 77 events listed for New York City alone. If you're traveling around the country or internationally, localwineevents.com will let you know what's happening winewise when you get there ... Chicago, for example, boasts 81 events on the site. Localwineevents celebrates its fifth anniversary this summer. They've posted over 500,000 wine events, and last month alone they got 7.5 million hits. This is a very cool website, so, like, check it out, dude.