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Now, I’m not what anybody would call a tree-hugger or anything like that, but I do support recycling. When it comes to the plethora of corks in our house, my wife recycles most of them into craft projects (which can be found and purchased at her Etsy store found here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/thegoodwineartist). If, however, you are not as…craft inclined as my wife, but you still want to recycle after you’ve enjoyed a bottle of wine you can of course place the glass in a recycling bin, but you may not know that the corks can be recycled as well.
Right now the California Wine Club has a program to recycle corks, and you can even get benefits from sending them your corks, including discounts on wine club memberships and footwear from SOLES. The best part is that if the Cork Drive can get 20 million corks by the end of September, they’re going to plant 1000 cork trees in the Mediterranean cork forests to celebrate.
To send in your corks just call 1-800-777-4443 or send an email to corkdrive@cawineclub.com and they’ll send you an envelope. Just be sure to tell them how many corks you have so that they can send you a big enough envelope. It’s that easy.
To learn more, including the importance of cork trees, you can visit the Cork Drive website at http://www.cawineclub.com/cork-drive . Thanks to everybody that sends in corks and if you do, leave a comment and say how many you sent in, I’m curious to see how many can get sent in.
With the 2011 North American Wine Bloggers Conference less than 6 months away, it’s good to know that there are still opportunities out there for people to attend. Layer Cake and winemaker Jayson Woodbridge have endowed a scholarship to help wine bloggers attend the conference with $5,000. This annual endowment has been put in place so that wine bloggers without the financial means to travel to the location of the Wine Bloggers Conference can still have the opportunity to attend this unique event.
Last years scholarship helped 8 wine bloggers attend the conference in Walla Walla, Washington, and if you believe you qualify for the scholarship, you should check out the Wine Bloggers Conference website (http://wbcscholarship.com/america/) to get all the details and fill out the application. The deadline for applications is June 1st.
As a wine blogger who is fortunate enough to be able to attend the 2011 Wine Blogger’s Conference through my own means (it being in my home state helps), I’m glad to see Jayson Woodbridge and Layer Cake helping my fellow bloggers attend.
So, raise your hand if you’ve registered for the 2011 Wine Bloggers Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia. Ok, I know you can’t actually see, but my hand is raised. While I wasn’t able to attend this years (Washington state is a bit far for me to travel to be honest), next years WBC will be right in my back yard.
If you’re a wine blogger and haven’t registered you should definitely get on it (here’s a link: WBC Registration), and while it’s still nearly a year out, taking place from July 22 to July 24, I’ll be sure to post updates leading up to, and definitely during the Conference. I’m supremely excited to participate, and I’m really looking forward to meeting more of my fellow wine writers.
Conversify has helped launch a new social media portal for wine lovers, targeted primarily at women (though certainly welcoming men). The Wine Sisterhood (http://www.winesisterhood.com) is a social networking tool to learn about wine, share your wine experiences, and help shape brand development of several vineyards.
Read the entire press release here: http://www.pitchengine.com/free-release.php?id=39480
