Archive for the ‘Wine Media’ Category
What’s the difference between a wine that is alternately rated 4 of 5-Stars, 16 of 20 points and 88 of 100 points? The answer is: many things. I bring this up after spending time with the Ratings Conversion Chart created by The World of Fine Wine Magazine, a British Quarterly Publication that take on wine in a high brow, intelligent, in-depth manner and has gone out and recruited what is certainly one of the most impressive collection of mainly European…
By all accounts of the participants I’ve talked to or read, Antonia Allegra’s "Symposium for Professional Wine Writers" is a great success. The 3rd Annual SPWW happens February 20-23, 2007 again at Meadowood in Napa Valley. And for those of you who writer or read wine blogs, something very cool has occurred: Alder Yarrow of Vinography.com is one of the featured speakers. Let me put this in context for you. Alder will appear as a featured speaker alongside the likes…
Today Wark Communications will help Saintsbury carry out the kind of even that I am most fond of: A tutored tasting of wines gong back 20 years conducted and hosted by the owners of Saintsbury and their winemaker. I personally like these events because they appeal to the geek in me, they give me time to really consider the way wines age and the pace is always appropriate. The attendees will be mainly wine writers and members of the wine…
Vinography is the location of some of the best blog-hosted conversations in wine blogdom. This of course is due to Alder Yarrow’s incisive writing and observation skill. I was reminded of this, and provoked to some deep thinking, when I read Alder’s and his commenters’ thoughts on Wine Spectator Matt Kramer’s August 31 column in that magazine. Alder points out in a post entitled "What is Matt Kramer Smoking", that Kramer, in writing about the problems and difficulties in recommending…
I’ve been an advocate of alternative closures (non-cork closures) for wine for quite some time. Simply, I think quality control is paramount. That said, I was taken aback by a headline in The Telegraph that read: "SCREWCAPS BLAMED FOR TAINTING WINE". Given the rather intense war of words and advertising between the cork producers and pushers of alternative closures, the headline must give the cork advocates something tasting to gnaw on. The crux of the article is that at the…
