Archive for the ‘Rating Wine’ Category
*******************************************************************************************Don’t forget to take the Fermentation Survey!CLICK HERE to take the survey…All I ask is three minutes of your day.******************************************************************************************* Russ Bebbe over at the Wine Hiker Blog has done a preliminary assessment of the effect on a wine’s aftermarket price when it hits the Top Ten of the Wine Spectator Top 100 list. The Top 100 came out Monday. What was unique about the list is that the #1 wine was relatively inexpensive Ar around $69 (2001 Casanova Di…
I picked up the new wine rating newsletter from VinTrust at the Recent Wine & Spirits Magazines Top 100 Tasting. VinTrust finally announced the emergence of their new publication today in a press release via BusinessWire and this spurred me to take another look at it. VinTrusts SOMMselections consists primarily of reviews of wine with a smattering of commentary on recent Burgundy vintages, screwcaps, biodynamic farming and some other topics. But the main thrust is providing reviews of sommelier-vetted wines…
Where does the most Wine Spectator Magazine stand on Pinot Noir? It’s a pretty broad question. So, here is the broad answer: I took at look at the Wine Spectator’s reviews of Pinot Noirs in specific regions for the vintages 2003-2005. The majority of reviews are of the 2004 vintage. So, we are talking a snapshot of the Spectator’s view of the most recent vintages. I also looked at what percent of wines were rated 90 points or above (90+)…
The post right below this one spurred on Fred Koeppel of KoeppelOnWine to make this comment: "Tom, I know that you don’t review wines on Fermentation, but you owe it to your readers and fans AND to the winery that disappointed you to tell us what the winery and the wine are. These people should understand that longtime consumers of that wine are disappointed and they should know why. It’s when we DON’T speak up that such dumbing down of…
I don’t think it is a matter of simply being adverse to change, though I am a fan of stability. That said, I really can’t say how disappointed I was recently when I picked up a domestic rose that I’ve drunk a lot of over the years. It was, sort of, my "go to" rose: it has been truly dry, expressive of strawberries but not overly so, exhibited good acid and really was a beautiful afternoon quaffer that usually came…
