learning wine
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Judging the Judges: Study Shows Wine Judges Aren’t That Reliable (or does it…?)
The Journal of Wine Economics has just published a study authored by Robert T. Hodgson titled An Examination of Judge Reliability at a major U.S. Wine Competition. The reported findings should make the fodder for about 10,000 wine blog articles over the next few weeks.…
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Why Huge Wine Lists Suck
With the recent review I penned for WCDish.com, I’ve had restaurant wine lists on the brain lately. Which means that this post will likely be ill-timed, given the dearth of restaurant-goers in an economy that is wading knee-deep in layoff announcements. Oh well – timing…
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Earth, Wine And Fire… and Wine Lists
Shall we explore the world of restaurant wine lists, while interpolating the badassness of Earth Wind & Fire in the process? What the hell, why not? First, we can establish the baddassness of EWF right away – that’s easy: They funked, singing harmonies in octaves…
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The Summer of Wine’s Discontent (or "What Wine Can Learn From Beer")
The wine world probably won’t miss the Summer of `08. That’s because the Summer of `08 seems like wine’s Season of Discontent. A fictitious restaurant won an Award of Excellence from long-running wine institution Wine Spectator; Wine Spectator’s response, posted in their on-line forums rather…








