Well… whose ratings should a wine drinker pay attention to? Or, stated with a tad more more grammatical correctness (warning: sounding-like-douche-bag-potential alert!), To Whose Ratings Should A Wine Drinker Pay More Attention? An American Association of Wine Economists (AAWE) working paper with that tile was just released, though, interestingly, it doesn’t actually answer the question. …
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Being Able To Describe A Wine Does NOT Make You Awesome
If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high, You’d laugh and say “Nothing’s that simple!” – from “I’m Free” (Tommy, The Who – 1969) The following commentary is not an easy one to write, because whenever one talks about something that they do, they run the risk of appearing immodest, or…
The Hopeless Quest To Define Wines Of True Character (Or “Screw The Ratings, Even Mine”)
Roughly two months ago, in the follow-on discussions on a feature on the wines of Lodi producer Matt Powell, a reader named Olivier chimed on with some though-provoking questions, the kind that, for me, define the 1WD readership because they exponentially increase the value of the content on this little ol’ website. The discussion was…
Why Every Wine Lover Should Have A Wine Blog
If you love wine, you can do something that costs $0.00 and almost certainly will up your wine appreciation and wine tasting I.Q. score varios puntos. Namely, start a wine blog. Right now. It will take you less than ten minutes. Go to wordpress.com and create a blog, and your first post can be as…