April 17 2006
I have another post on the Wine Sediments portion of the Wellfed network. The Wine Sediments portion of the site can be found here.
In my post, I basically take two angles:
1) Wine ratings should post ALL scores of all wines reviewed--in the interest of full disclosure
2) The entire wine ratings game might be ready to overtaken by the people
In this post, I also throw-in a Lake Wobegon reference as contextual support for the fact that all of the wine ratings we see are above average.
As an additional tid bit, I scanned an issue of Wine Spectator AFTER having written my current post (Jan. 31 - Feb 28 issue). In the article called "The World of Wine in 2005," it lists the division of scores for ALL wines reviewed in 2005 and fully 46% of the 12,000 + wines reviewed scored an 85 - 89--or Very Good (A Wine with Special Qualities).
And, only 8% scored 75 - 79 (A drinkable wine that may have minor flaws).
A couple of years ago there was a little bit of a flap with grade inflation at Harvard University (NPR blurb here).
Does anybody think we have the same thing happening in wine, or at the least an opportunity for disinter-mediation from consumers?
Thanks to Mark Fisher, the editor of the Wine Sediments site also maintains Uncorked a blog companion to his wine pieces for the Dayton Daily News and an adjunct to his beat as a reporter for the same paper, he has graciously invited me to write for Wine Sediments as a guest columnist--a proposition I will take him up on with some regularity.
When a glass of wine has a rough edge to it, it can be referred to as having some "angularity." Mark’s writing only drives home positive "angularity" --as in he always has an interesting take. His last post on wine ratings is in this vein and can be found here.
Pop over to the site and take a read.
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