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A Matter of Taste (Part 1)

Jacob Gaffney  in Red Wines, Pinot Noir ,

The Fox Network hates wine blogs – and rightfully so. They are the dullest things, put together by people who seem to feel empowered by the fact that they can drink wine and wow the world by telling you exactly what they think it tastes like. Some skill.

Come to think of it, what’s with all this ‘I,’ ‘I,’ ‘I’?

Is there some commandment in the wine-blog bible that says ‘Thou shalt write wine reviews like the dairy entries of a ten-year-old’?

Sample:

“I woke up this morning with a headache, could be hay fever, but I thinks it’s the Cono Sur Pinot Noir from LAST NIGHT, LOL! I had another bottle for breakfast; then I took a ride to Vinopolis on a London bus that, finally, didn’t smell like French fries and farts.”

InterWined.comis different. The name suggests a connectedness between wine and life. And so it is so. After the panning of wine blogs by Fox news, a look at the competition was necessary. Most herald themselves as “independent” wine reviewers. However, the wines they review are free samples.

So, if they drink a free Cono Sur Pinot Noir (It’s not bad, but not nearly as good as some blogs would have you believe) then they’ve saved five pounds on wine that night. In essence, it’s like the winery forking over the fiver directly. Nonsense. Why don’t you buy the wine you feel like drinking? Not the ones where someone tells you “Your readers need to hear about this!”

Wish someone would give me free wine.

InterWined recounts the wines purchased, over the course of the week. If the wine is memorable, for whatever reason, it gets noted.

Come to think of it, InterWined also lacks that fundamental wine review tool: a ratings system.

The New York Times recently dissed the 100-point scale invented by Robert Parker and employed by Wine Spectator. But they missed the allure of 100-points.

Since the vast majority readers of this blog happen to be teachers…or, at least at one point, have been taught, you know the allure of scoring 100 is a sweet and convincing draw. It means ‘doing well’, even if the grade was under-deserved. You all know that, at one point in your lives, you gave that underperforming bully a passing grade on more than one occasion — or got one yourselves.

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