Archive for the ‘Rating Wine’ Category
In a recent story in the San Jose Mercury News, Laurie Daniel explored a topic that remains very important to winemakers and wine geeks: The degree to which Pinot Noir currently does or is capable of exhibiting regionality in its character. Interestingly, the extent to which this issue is important to non-geeks seems to me to extend only as far as the occasional comments by casual wine drinkers that they "like California Pinot more than French" or believe "Oregon Pinot…
Can you trust a wine retailer’s recommendation? They are, after all, in the business of selling wine and one presumes that a wine they have on their shelves can’t be ignored, let alone dissed by them. This is the question at the heart of a very interesting story in the LA Times by Jerry Hirsch that focuses on Wilfred Wong, Beverage & More’s Online Cellarmaster and the person who reviews wines exclusively for BevMo and who’s reviews and ratings show…
OK…more than likely we are all buying up 2005 California Pinots because they have largely all hit the market. At least those of us who enjoy experimenting with CA Pinot are looking to this vintage. Being a guy who appreciates statistics and being further a guy who understands that the Wine Spectator is an important trend setter for quality considerations, I decided to take a look at what the Wine Spectator has had to say about CA Pinots from the…
"most Americans were satisfied with the system as it is except for a small, very vocal segment who say they can’t get their bottle of 1997 whatever.” Count me in as part of that small, vocal segment of folks who really do love the "1997 Whatever". What a great wine that was, huh! I’d loved it’s fruity component of So What. And who can forget that wine’s firm and crisp Too Bad. And the wine was legendary for it’s long,…
Logos! Over the years we’ve done more than our fair share at Wark Communications. We’re pretty good at it. The real key to creating a good logo is to understand perfectly the idea that a simple image is supposed to convey and who you are primarily going to be communicating to with the logo. Why do I note this? Well, your chance to prove your Wine-Related-Logo-Creation-Skills are upon you. The venerable Wine Blogging Wednesday folks are having a logo design…
