This month we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of Write for Wine! Ten years – wow!

When the blog launched in June 2007, we wrote about Washington wines, wineries, events, wine clubs and wine bars from Woodinville to Walla Walla. Soon after, we began our presence on Twitter at @writeforwine — we now have almost 11.500 followers.

What a ride it’s been! These days, we continue to write about wine from Washington state, but we also feature wines from California, Oregon, B.C., France, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Spain and more.

We have tasted some fine wine, met some terrific people, and travelled to many countries during the past 10 years. If you do a search on the blog, or scroll through the calendar archives, you will likely find a special gem or story that speaks to you. At least, we hope so!

One of our mottos is “It’s wine o’clock somewhere!” In fact, this blog can also be viewed at wineoclock.us. The phrase “it’s wine o’clock” initially came in 2003 from Peter, our friend in London, who worked with me. Every Friday, at 5:30 p.m. in London, Peter would tell me “it’s wine o’clock.” In Washington state, it was the beginning of the day.

As a result, we added “somewhere” to Peter’s phrase and adopted it as our own 14 years ago. You will now see it in posts here, on Facebook and Twitter. And the phrase “It’s wine o’clock somewhere” never fails to inspire creative responses from other wine enthusiasts.

So thank you, to our family, friends and followers for a wonderful 10 years, and many more to come.

Cheers – it’s wine o’clock somewhere!
Margot and Dave