As wine bloggers, we are dependent on the web to give us vital nutrition that comes in the form of both community and information. This can be seen as both a positive and negative. The positive is that we are able to meet people from around the world who share our passions, vision and dreams. They love wine with the same intensity as we love wine, craving to share this emotion with anyone who’s willing to listen. The negative is that we rarely have the opportunity to actually meet these people face to face. We Twitter back and forth about a new vintage, leave comments on each other’s site, or discuss in one forum or another ways in which we can change the wine world together, but rarely, do we physically share space.

So last Friday afternoon, we scheduled a “blind date” if you will, with three people for whom we’ve been bantering back and forth with for quite some time. At least this is true with Joan Gómez Pallarès of De Vinus, a popular Spanish wine blog. I can’t tell you how many plans have been made and broken in hopes of sharing a glass of wine with this Barcelona wine guru. Seriously, considering that the Joan lives not 20 minutes away from us, we should have done this ages ago, but life got the best of us, and it took over 6 months for us to finally get our acts together.

As for Eduardo and Edgar of Vinus TV, an Internet wine show, they had flown in from Madrid to not only meet us, but a handful of other bloggers as well. Therefore, our meeting was actually quite prompt considering that we’ve only be …