Well… are they? Some background: Wine critics generally use a 100-point scale when evaluating wines (I know most of you know this, bear with the exposition, people!). I don’t, because I think it implies a level of accuracy in evaluating a moving-target product (that can change within hours in the glass, let alone within years…
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Crowdsourcing Taste Buds: Project VinoMatch Bets On The Democratized Wine World For Funding, But Is It A Winning Bet?
Fitting squarely into the “Well, Now This Is Interesting” Department (I just made that department up, because it’s my blog and I can do that sort of thing, after all), I recently received a PR-style email about a new wine search engine called VinoMatch. VinoMatch is not an all-things-wine-related search engine (good thing, too, since…
Are We In The Golden Age Of Wine Writing? (Hint: Not Even Close!)
In part of his coverage/promotion of wine blogger Alder Yarrow’s new gig as part of Team Jancis over at JancisRobinson.com, wine blogger Tom Wark rightly points out that it’s almost paradoxically at once significant and also a natural, balladromic bit of evolution to have an established wine personality tap into the blog-o-world when seeking to…
The Perfect Wine To Pair With Halloween Is…
Whatever you like to drink. End of discussion. Seriously. Look, no wine really goes all that well with processed candy anyway. So why not do what a lot of people in my ‘hood do: grab a bottle or two of decent white vino, several beers, and convert one of your kids’ pull carts into a…