New Wine Blog: Real World Winers
Take eight passionate people, mix in a bunch of wine, sprinkle in a simple rating system, and what do you get? A whole lotta fun. Bill, Chris, Ed, John, Rich, Ssezi, Stef, and Steve have been getting together every week for 10 years to taste wine, and in December, they started a blog to track their findings. I haven’t seen an update since April, but so far they seem to have been pretty consistent.
So how does the rating system work? The group employs simple graphics. On the low end a toilet bowl, which is self explanatory, to a glass that is empty, one half full, and the last being completely full, which implies that the drinker would actually purchase the wine again. Their tagline?
Real People, Real Wine. The straight story on what’s worth drinking, and what tastes like ass.
From a wine getting a the top rating from everyone, the 2004 Terrazas de los Andes Malbec - Argentina, to a toilet wine, the 2002 Santa Rita Medalla Real Cabernet Sauvignon which received the comment, “If you are going to a dinner party with people you don’t like, then you should bring this wine”, the site doesn’t fail to entertain.
