Archive for the ‘Rating Wine’ Category
Wow…talk about the power of the wine critic. It’s one thing to bestow a wine with a score of 75 points or one star and leave for the consumer to decide after that. It’s an altogether different thing to ban the sale of wine in an entire country because there’s something about its color, aroma or taste you don’t like. That appears to be the case in Russia where the all powerful "Rospotrebnadzor", that country’s consumer rights and sanitation department,…
You just never know what’s going to impress. Saturday we had a nice little dinner party here. No reason for it other than just to get together good friends. Of course, wine was involved. No one broke out any big guns that night. But, we did sample some very interesting wines that demonstrated something that is all too often the case: An evening’s wines that are the most memorable often have an interesting story to tell. Wine #1: Pinot Noir,…
There’s a wine story out there today that seems to have found its way into the sections of newspapers other than "FOOD". Michelle Locke, the find reporter for AP that has the wine beat writes about some sort of magnet devise that supposedly softens up the tannins in wine through some form of…well…somehow. While interesting, it’s not very consequential. What’s really interesting is the quote that comes out of the story from Peter Farrell, a "master of wine" and the…
Another wine writer has taken to blogging. The newest, in what is becoming a growing list of converts to this format, is Joe Pollack, a long time writer and authority on the St. Louis wine and culinary scene. Joe, along with wife Ann, are maintaining St. Louis Eats and Drinks with Joe and Anne Pollock. Joe has been doing thing (writing and critiquing and offering opinion) for a lot longer than any of us in the blogosphere. He has been…
I suspect THIS STORY will be picked up around the wine blogosphere. If it isn’t it should be. It appears that an Australian winery, perturbed that a wine blogger’s poor review of their wines shows up high in the search engines, had threatened legal action against the blogger. I was made aware about this turn of events through an email sent to me, and many others I believe, by the folk at Wine Life Today. They were highlighting a post…
