Sigh… Here we go. Again. It seems the 100 point wine rating scale debate – and its subsequent delineation of ivory-tower criticism vs. crowd-sourced wine recommendations – has once again reared its ugly head, though since it’s a zombie topic that’s never quite dead, it doesn’t have to raise its moaning, rotting head very far…
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The Golden Age Of Wine Writing? Sorry, Wrong Question!
Almost four (holy crap!) years ago, I wrote on these virtual pages a response (ok, rebuttal) to a claim by the thought-provoking PR maven Tom Wark that we were in a “golden age” of wine writing. Fast-forward to last week, and we have Tom taking umbrage with a satirical piece by Ron Washam, a.k.a. The…
The Wine Price Fix Is On (At Fix.com)
I am aware that it’s been a long, oh, I don’t know, five whole minutes since I last talked about a Fix.com article, but the fine folks over at that website have seen fit to publish yet another of my modest attempts at edu-taining the wine soaked masses yearning to be… well… edu-tained. And so,…
Science Has Not Really Spoken (On The Study Of Big Flavor Wines)
Ok, geeks; REMAIN CALM. That’s the message we need to repeat to our geeky wine selves after reading the article “Science has spoken: Big wine doesn’t mean more flavour” by Beppi Crosariol in The Globe and Mail. In case you missed it, the scoop is that a rather cleverly executed experiment involving 26 “relatively inexperienced…