Fine Wines (Re)Visited

Best Wine Blog Posts for July 3rd through July 30th
Best of the wine blogosphere for July 3rd through July 30th:Cabernet Franc: What We Learned From 656 Glasses of WineThe Coming of Age of Wine BloggingJancis Robinson Talks About Her Career in Wine at IPNCThe Sierra Gap and more on American wine consumersThe Blob: Will the wine industry co-opt social media for its own [...]

How I Taste and Review Wines
I’ve been thinking these past weeks about how to post a number of reviews I have in my Evernote tasting log. After experimenting with different formats I think I have arrived at a good starting point that will be refined as I go through your feedback and by just posting reviews. Since wineries have sampled [...]

Best Wine Blog Posts for April 15th through May 29th
Best of the wine blogosphere for April 15th through May 29th:News from the trenchesConfession! Alice and Reductive Wine Writing EthicsHermann J. Wiemer 2007 Dry RieslingAnnouncing TasteNY: A Virtual Exploration of New York Wine, Beer and SpiritsPostcard from Germany: A House DividedLife is a Bell CurveWhy We Owe Robert ParkerWine Advocate Writers Spark Ethics Debate– [...]

RedTree, Pinot Noir 2008
It is rare that you see mainstream critics write about so-called“industrial wines” and most unusual when they actually say good things about them. So I was surprised to see Wine Spectator critic Jim Laube blog about an $8 California Pinot Noir a couple weeks ago. Naturally I was curious to taste the wine myself [...]

Do Critics Still Determine Wine Styles?
By way of Josh Hermsmeyer, I found Tina Caputo’s fantastic self-produced short film,“Robert Parker’s Bitch.” The basic premise is that wines today are big, bold, and over-oaked designed,‘…to taste and spit,” and not savored with food. The question on the table is if Robert Parker and Jim Laube largely determine today’s wine styles [...]

Winecast, The Business Blog
It’s funny how things work out sometimes. What started over 4 years back as one man’s hobby to post audio wine tasting notes has grown into one of the four,“Best Wine Business/Industry” blogs for this years American Wine Blog Awards.I’m honored— and very surprised— to the in the company of some of [...]