by Dale J. Cruse of Drinks Are On Me – Follow him @dalecruse
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Twitter use has exploded recently and every sector has experienced phenomenal growth – including the wine industry. Here’s a mixed 12-pack of the most-essential winos to follow on Twitter. It’s important to note that all of these are real people – not automated bots.
1. @garyvee – Gary Vaynerchuk is the undisputed heavyweight champion of wine and new media. It’s Gary’s wine world – we’re just living in it.
2. @billdaley – Bill Daley writes about food and wine for the Chicago Tribune. He’s one of the few old media types who seems to get new media.
3. @binendswine – Craig Drollett created Twitter Taste Live, an online Twitter platform uniting wine drinkers around the world for virtual tastings.
4. @winecast – Tim Elliott and crew create a consistently entertaining and enlightening wine audio podcast. The choicest tidbits end up on Twitter.
5. @pmabray – Paul Mabray and his company VinTank unleashed a wine social media white paper. Hopefully they’ll focus on wine bloggers next.
6. @ryanopaz and @gabriellaopaz – A twofer: Ryan and Gabriella Opaz are American expatriots living in Spain. Together they are a wonderful pair of international wine ambassadors.
7. @1winedude – Joe Roberts is smart, often clever, funny, unusually insightful, and always interesting to read.
8. @eljefetwisted – Jeff Stai is the owner and wine maker at Twisted Oak Winery in California. What’s not to like about his weird rubber chicken fetish?
9. @lenndevours – Forget California, Oregon, and Washington State wines. Lenn Thompson is on a mission to showcase the wines of New York State.
10. @kevinzraly – Kevin Zraly wrote the “Windows On The World Complete Wine Course,” considered by many to be THE wine book.
11. @sonadora – Megan Kenney is a government minion by day, wine blogger by night, and a great read all day long.
12. @dalecruse – Without being too self serving, I’m on a crusade to help people find the best wine information and trusted voices on Twitter.
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@TwitTipsCenter
Nice. Thanks for sharing!
@SappyLoveStory
This is great. Thank you!
@simonech
Sad that there is none from the land of wine (which is Italy).
Sad because probably Italian wine expert are still living in the ’80s
@markshaw
If you are talking fine wine.. then you should also be following @albanywines. David and his team are expert on all matters relating to the buying, investing and of course the drinking of wine.
@summertomato
I was wondering what happened to the “who to follow” lists. Thanks for the refresher, I think we need more of these!
@ryanopaz
Thanks for the mention! Though if you want to hear the best wine info from both of us, follow: @catavino our main wine account! Great list…cheers, r
@girlwithaglass
What a great idea. I’m familiar with all of them except #6, thanks for the tip!
@Bradinator
Great list! I follow them all. Very engaging!
Like #8, I’m a wine maker and we gather great insights and ideas from the wine twittering public. I also run @township7 and @blackcloudwine for those operations.
It’s a great theatre of exchange, this Twitter thing.
@billdaley
Many thanks for including me.very honored to be in with the others. You made my week!
@jasonswineblog
Thanks for keeping these list coming!
@hectorhenry17
Great this its showthing that twitter its allow for any short of twitter user.
@carlarose
Thank you! I have been wondering who to follow when it comes to wine. Great list!
@1winedude
Thanks for the mention! This explains the extra 100+ followers today…
Now… back to drinking!
Cheers!
@crauber
Thanks for doing this, but I think you missed some good ones, including @vinography and @larrythewineguy.
So there are no voices on wine outside of the U.S.??……what about Jancis Robinson, Jamie Goode, Tim Aitkin, Oz Clark, James Halliday, Campbell Mattinson, Fiona Beckett, Natalie MacLean…..many more too
I agree that your list has a number of great wine biz folks, but great people doesn’t necessarily translate to useful tweets. Some of the best wine twitters, IMHO are @tishwine @jancisRobinson @ablegrape @vinography @enobytes @winematcher @kevinzraly
…and I think it’s a bit tacky that you included yourself in the top 12 mix.
@yassermohamed
Good list. Need to find more representation from all over still. Would be nice to see an icon like @JancisRobinson in the list as well.
@frankloveswine
Great List – Thanks for the great info! Also think the feedback comments are great – I’ll keep an eye out for the peeps @Supernova named too.
@pmabray
Honored to be mentioned with a bunch of great wine biz tweeter and as the posts indicate, there are many more great wine tweeters out there.
@thebeerwench
I follow all of these people — and have met almost all of them in real life. I can attest to their awesomeness and twitter influence.
Now, who are the top 12 must follow beer people on twitter, I wonder?
@napawineguy
What a GREAT LIST, I have been looking for a list like this for some time.
Let’s keep this Industry ROLLING –
We are the Wine Change WE SEEK!
BIG WINE LOVE,
NapaWineGuy
@aromes_mtl
Thanks for the post. That’s exactly what I was searching for: joining the beautiful community of wine passionates. I am now following them all via twitter.Great job, folks!