Archive for the ‘Rating Wine’ Category
For the longest time I tried to wrap my head around a simple idea: reading wine reviews that don’t include the price. I’d never thought about this until today when I came across two blogs that review wines, and do it well, but don’t include the price. There were descriptions of the wine including aromas, body, flavor. There were histories of the wineries included. There were ratings. And there were some pretty insightful ideas bandied about in these reviews that…
Mike Dunne of the Sacramento Bee has written a wonderful article on the Authentication Controversy swirling about the world of rare wine. The controversy came to the surface when a gentleman who paid $500,000 for wine thought to once to have been in the collection of Thomas Jefferson claims the wines are fake. He filed a lawsuit in Federal Court in New York claiming fraud. It’s a pretty fascinating and complex story which can be found at Bloomberg HERE, while…
Wine Spectator writer and wine reviewer James Laube is one brave man! I was sent word of a local event and wine auction benefiting The Young School, a Montessori school in St. Helena. Like many local schools in wine country, they organize grand events to raise money through sales of tickets to the event and through an auction. The Young School’s event, "Forever Young" at Quintessa Winery on the 17th has a great line up of auction lots. The Young…
Who’s to say? That’s the question that Ryan over at CalWineriesBlog asks about whether a wine is good or bad or average. It’s a good question. His answer is is YOU. That is, if you are drinking the wine all that really matters is what you think of it. But this is really beside the point. The real question is who’s opinion will you take in helping decide if you buy a wine? While I subscribe to the idea that…
The measure of a person’s commitment to an idea must surely be the length to which they are willing to go to make their point. When a person is willing to go the distance, and do so with the kind of delicious satire that Darryl Roberts of Wine X Magazine does, you really have to step back and marvel at the brilliance. As we recently heard, Roberts shut down his subversive Wine X Magazine after years of publishing. In doing…
