Archive for the ‘Rating Wine’ Category
I had the happy opportunity to give a talk to a gathering of Wine Australia yesterday in San Francisco. Wine Australia is the promotional arm of the Australian wine industry. You’ve heard of this industry, haven’t you? That’s right, it’s the industry that might be the most innovative technically and marketing-wise of any national wine industry on the globe. They had me to their gathering of Australian wine marketers and executives to talk about the issue of blogs. I choose…
Now here’s something that would never happen in America: A French consumer group is making a serious complaint that wines from AOC-approved regions in France don’t taste they way they think they are supposed to, leading to recommendations that stricter standards be set for identifying wines that can actually carry said appellations on their label. Yet this is exactly the claim that a French consumer group is making concerning the country’s AOC wines. Specifically, the group—UFC-Que Choisir—claims that pressure to…
Gary Vaynerchuk has some competition (though not much):
In response to Monday’s post about how the creation of new grape varieties will enhance winemakers’ status as "artist", one dear reader offered this comment: "How can anything you ultimately excrete be called art?" This is a darn good question that deserves and answer. Most often you hear winemaking referred to as both an art AND a science. Technically I think winemaking is clearly more "art" than science, unless you think of winemakers as mainly practitioners of the "fermentation sciences"….
I like counting. I like the simple, elegant, structured and definite results you get from counting. Combine this counting fetish I have with my appreciation for criticism and you can understand why I like valuating various rating systems and results of wine rating systems. Today for some reason I started thinking about the highest rated recently released wines in the world. That though brought me to The Wine Spectator Magazine where, using their database of wine ratings, I learned something…
