This summer from August 12-16, 2015  the 8th Wine Bloggers Conference will be held at the Radisson Hotel in the town of Corning in the The Finger Lakes region of New York. The Finger Lakes Wine Country hosts over 100 wineries which grow 90% of New York’s wine around the four main lakes: Cayuga, Seneca, Keuka and Canandaigua.  Corning, New York, home to the Corning Glass Company,was named “Best Fun Small Town in America” in 2013 by Rand McNally.I’ve attended seven of the conferences so far, thanks to convenient locations and two scholarships (to 2010’s WBC in Walla Walla and in 2013 to Penticton); I missed the one in Virgina due to the expense of travel. Instead that year I visited wine regions in Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and California on an extensive road trip. But I am planning on getting to the Finger Lakes, a region that I’ve heard a lot about over the years, and been favorably impressed with their wines, especially their Riesling, which I’ve had the opportunity to taste in several virtual events.

He asked if we’d take a survey to let them know about which of these suggestions they should implement. I never heard what they thought about the community’s response to the previous survey. I did however find results on their website in a recent blog post.Below are the questions,  excerpts of my responses followed some of the results with comments, plus excerpts from their new survey about content which closed on Friday (check in case it is still open!). The tentative WBC15 agenda is posted here.