You can all stop picking on Robert Parker now. The oft-followed and just as oft-maligned wine critic extraordinaire is doing you a favor. A favor if you, like him, have a wine palate that tends towards the bombastic, that is. A great post on the science of wine tasting over at Catavino.net (and how that…
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The Price is Right? What Influences Wine Prices
How much is that bottle of wine in the window? Not that you’d want to buy wine that’s been sitting in a window for any extended period of time, since it’s probably baked from the exposure to all of that light and temperature variation. Anyway, I’m off to Chicago for a non-wine-related business trip. While…
This World is Full of Crashing (Wine) Bores
Arthur Przebinda (of redwinebuzz.com) has an opinion piece published today in the L.A. Times‘ Blowback section. It’s well worth a few minutes of your busy time to read. In his well-written rebuttal of Joel Stein’s amusing but ultimately misguided take on “wine snobbery”, Arthur contends that the language of serious oenophiles is not meant to…
¿Cuál es la gran cosa con España? (Iberian Wines and You)
What’s up with Spain, anyway? And for that matter, Portugal? I mean… que pasa, dude??!? Few wine regions are currently as exciting and vibrant as Spain and Portugal. Not too long ago, they were producing wines of specious quality, suffering from a similar Old World wine funk that once engulfed the (now impressive) wine regions…