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FeedSpot Top Wine Blogs 2026
The best pleasures in life are unexpected ones, right?
You grab a bottle of wine. You know nothing about it. Open, swirl, sniff, sip. Whoa. OMG.
Unexpected. Delightful. Pleasant.
Wine might be the best carrier of unexpected pleasure. Of course, you can always win a lottery – but that is reserved for the selected few, and in many cases, the pain comes right after the pleasure. And then there are unexpected emails. Not, not the ones when you are informed that your unknown uncle passed away in the other hemisphere, and your millions are in the mail as long as you pay the modest fee of $5k. No, I’m not talking about those.
A few days ago, I got an email from FeedSpot informing me that my blog made the 100 Best Wine Blogs to Follow in 2026. Unexpected. And pleasant.
Last year, I also made the Top 100 list of 2025, so I’m definitely happy to receive the recognition again. Scrolling through the list, I find many familiar names, so kudos to all who are still happy to share their passion for wine.
Now I’m off to write about the delicious Amarone I recently had the pleasure of experiencing…
FeedSpot 100 Best Wine Blogs of 2025
When I started this blog about 15 years ago (you will hear about it more this year) after extensive nudging from friends, I did some “soul searching” as a novice blogger. When you write something “in the open” you want someone to read it, right? Along these lines, one of the important soul-searching questions was: “Who am I writing for” – again, every writer is looking for readers, so what can or should I do to attract them? The best answer I found was ” you don’t write for anyone, you only write for yourself” – and ever since this was exactly what I have done.
While I’m writing for myself, I obviously appreciate any form of acknowledgment – it is nice to know that somewhere out there there is at least someone who might read a word or two from this blog. So when I got an email from FeedSpot informing me that the Talk-a-Vino blog was featured as one of the Top 100 Wine Blogs of 2025, this was a happy and humbling moment, this exact acknowledgment.
It is an honor to be featured in the list which includes Wine Spectator, James Suckling, and Decanter blogs. And of course, it is great to be in the wonderful company of wine bloggers I’ve known for many years – 1 Wine Dude, the drunken cyclist, Dallas Wine Chick, Food Wine Click just to name a few.
There was also an unexpected benefit of this recognition :). When I went to add the FeedSpot badge to the sidebar of my blog page I discovered that at some point I missed a change in the theme I’m using on WordPress, and my blog roll disappeared along with a few other lists I always considered important. I had to spend a bit of time restoring the blog to the way I always liked it to be, but now you can again see the list of blogs I’m following, along with the list of my favorite places to buy wine and some wine travel website recommendations.
And with that, let me get back to the gazillion of the posts I need to finish – onward and upward.
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