Archive for the ‘Rating Wine’ Category
When I drink them I can't identify anything about "organic" wines that set them apart from non-organic wines. As such, I don't have a real heightened interest in them. However, Winston, Jennifer and Brent sure do! Their Organic Wine Review, now in beta stage, is devoted to organic wines and to video. In other words, what you get is video reviews of organic wines. And I like them. There's a lot of movement on the organic wine front, including the…
I remember being very, very new to the wine industry. Fresh with a graduate degree and recently hired at a wine PR firm in Santa Rosa called Gracelyn Associates, I knew just enough about wine to get myself in trouble. And of course I did just that. One of the best places for the wine neophyte to get in trouble is at a large walkaround tasting. That's where I chose to embarrass myself; at my first, large, walk-around wine tasting….
What percent of wines should be rated 90 points or more? What percent should be rated less than 80 points? Should we expect that a certain percent of wines would be located in the top ranks? Should we assume a certain percent of wines from any given vintage are rated lower in quality? Sure we should expect this, but determining what percent are highly rated and which percent should be rated low is near impossible to determine, particularly since wines…
For some time now I’ve lived in the camp that argues the 100 Point wine rating scale is non-sensical, reductive and counter productive. I think I’m changing teams. And here’s why: Wine Drinkers Like it. No, it hasn’t taken me 20 years to realize this. I’ve know this all along. So does everybody else. It’s just that recently I’ve come to have a greater appreciation for giving people what they want, rather than trying to give them what I think…
Today Palate Press launches. This venture, called a blogazine by its editor W. R. Tish, attempts to coral some of the top blog voices in the business to produce not an aggregation of content, but a wine web site that delivers original content with a distinctly blog-oriented voice and perspective. This is an idea that I've been approached with or consulted on by various folks, most of whom have in the the back of their mind the idea that some…
