Eric Asimov, a New York Times wine critic, has started a new blog, The Pour. Its mission statement is promising:

This is a new blog about the pleasure of drinking wine, and beer and spirits, too. That’s drinking rather than tasting….

This is not to say that I’m turning my back on critical or analytical drinking. I’d be out of a job, and besides, most wine lovers can’t stop themselves, and I’m no different. The point is to talk about wine outside the clinical context. In The Pour, I’m going to avoid tasting notes like the avian flu. Instead, I will talk about the pleasures of drinking, about wines I have tried at home with family and friends or with people in the wine business. I will also take the opportunity to expand on issues that appear in the newspaper, either with the Times’ tasting panel or with The Pour column.

I look forward to more. He also lists a number of wine and spirits sites in his blogroll, some of which I’ll investigate and add to my own links as time permits.