Winexpression

How do you rate a wine? Do you try and stick to the 100 point system? Is that system flawed? Is there a better scale to use? How important are tasting notes?
These are some of the questions most of us face when we seriously try and gauge a wine’s quality. There are a lot of [...]

The story I wrote earlier this week received quite a few comments, interestingly they were emailed to me instead of posted on the site. One of the emails was from John Gillespie of Wine Opinions, the originator of this study, and I thought it merited a repost on the blog. Thanks John and Christian Miller [...]

That’s what it looks like, as the new Wine Opinions study that claims Parker’s influence is weakening with American consumers seems to have primarily interviewed readers from Wine Spectator! If the study was to be unbiased, it would seem only fair that an equal number of Robert Parker and Wine Spectator subscribers would have been [...]

Decanter picked up the story Monday on the top ten Winery Websites in California, as chosen by the Winery Website Report. I just have one thing to say, are you kidding me?
Here’s the list:

Lynmar Winery (83) www.lynmarwinery.com Valid HTML? (no)
Clos Du Val Wine Co. (82) www.closduval.com Valid HTML? (no)
EOS Estate Winery (81) www.eosvintage.com Valid HTML [...]

Peets Coffee and Tea, the Bay Area’s best coffee chain, has a new slogan for the holiday season: “A Cup is Worth a Thousand Words”. I personally feel that statement has more truth when applied to a glass of wine however. Yes people like to chat in the morning over a cup of coffee, but [...]

It’s amazing what can be accomplished with a blog. Trader Joe’s has pulled Chiaro del Bastardo Italian white wine from it’s shelves based on a tip from a newspaper columnist who blogged about the experience (Sidenote: I was going to call this blog “uncorked” when I registered it, but the Chronicle, and a magazine, and [...]

After a few days rubbing elbows with hoards of people at Disneyland this weekend, I was excited to get back to the solitude of my desk this morning. I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of wine related emails that had accumalated in my inbox over the past 4 days. Tom at Fermentations announcing a [...]

I am convinced that some of the happiest people on this planet are winemakers. Talk to other business professionals and small business owners and you’ll probably never have the same upbeat, energetic, interesting conversations that you would with a winemaker / winery owner.
For example, I just got off the phone with Mike Lamborn of Lamborn [...]

Marketers are smart, but they’re also annoying. Sometimes the method used to try and convince people to use or try a product borders on the unethical. When you see AP Articles with the intention of marketing it’s just upsetting. They should be unbiased non speculative stories that enlighten and educate. It’s not like companies don’t [...]

As a friend of mine always likes to say when he opens an extremely rare, expensive bottle and I give him that wide eyed stare of disbelief: “What am I going to do, die with it?”
You know something, he’s right.
How many of our treasured bottles of wine will continue to go unopened while we wait [...]