Archive for the ‘Rating Wine’ Category
THIS is New. Very New! And it’s very, very good. We’ve been given numbers, stars, puffs, written descriptions, Haiku, X’s, verbal descriptions and the old ThumbsUp-Thumbs-Down. But what I’ve never seen used before to review a wine is a simple image."we hope to provide a valuable tool for wine drinkers by using colors, sketches, photography, and other visual media in order to convey both the intrinsic components of a particular wine along with a general impression of it. Wine is…
You see lots of pictures of labels and bottles on wine blogs. Naturally they tend to accompany reviews. It’s pretty hard to do anything different with these kinds of graphics. And this is why the What Would Mikey Drink blog caught my attention. Mikey, from New York City, has been at the wine blogging thing since September 2005. You’ve got to like a guy who, reportedly, at the age of 8 can taste a Red Burgundy and proclaim it tastes…
This blog does not publish reviews of wines. That fact makes this blog fairly unusual in the world of wine blogs as many, if not most, do indeed review wines. It’s for this reason that I find the following results of the just finished survey conducted of readers of this wine blog most interesting: Q. Have you ever purchased a wine after seeing it reviewed on a wine blog? YES: 68%NO 32% If you are a wine blogger and review…
My take on it is that over the past two years there has been a building buzz in wine circles about whether or not the high alcohol, big, juicy, soft wines have run their course. I’m hearing more and more people take the "run its course" position. Even more have fessed up to really tiring of this style of wine that’s been building for the past decade and a half. I can’t help but wonder if this rising concern will…
TAKE "THE MEANING OF WINE BLOGS" SURVEY–CLICK HERE ———————————————————————————————————————————— One of the question on the survey I’m currently running (TAKE IT NOW) asks you to think about how many blogs you read regularly. Even when writing up the survey I hadn’t thought about this in a long time. So, I went to my trusty Bloglines page to count them up: 70, exactly. Fifty-five of these are wine blogs. I check these blogs, all 70, daily. It’s a testament to the…
