Comments on: What does it take to get a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence?

By: Peter Slappey

Peter Slappey — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:36:41 +0000

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By: How do you get a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence?

How do you get a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence? — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:50:22 +0000

[...] the Wine Spectator page, and read the incredible menu he created, along with the terrible wine list here. It’s great stuff, and once again, casts doubt on the validity of Wine Spectator’s [...]

By: Gourmet Info Guide

Gourmet Info Guide — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:39:53 +0000

Would you please translate your website into Italian because I’m not that comfortable reading it in English? I’m getting tired of using Google Translate all the time, there is a handy WP plugin called like global translator which will render all your articles by default- this would make reading posts on your great blog even more cosy. Cheers mate, Gourmet Info Guide!

By: Hockessin

Hockessin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:18:32 +0000

I will use your advice from now on. Jaap

By: A. Douglas Wauchope

A. Douglas Wauchope — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:58:14 +0000

Have just finished reading “The Wine Trials 2010″ cover to cover. I’;ve been a subscriber to Wine Spectator for years, and will continue but perhaps my dependence on their ratings may diminish somewhat. I have always been amused (and appaled) at the cost of some wines, (especially in light of the trajedy in Haiti) but the anchient human needs of status, and greed will always be WS and many winery’s driving force. To be fair, WS has been a great educator for me in a lot of ways ( I pretty much just skim over the reviews of hotels at 1200. a night, and private wine collections of 20,000 bottles, mostly first growths. WS should get credit for it’s sometime attempts for the rest of us (“Great wines for $25. or less”), etc. It was so great to see all of those old friends in your book, especially Trapiche, St. Michelle, Bogle, etc. wines I have bought by the case and given to friends. I guess the most disturbing was that they never recieved a 92, although I thought there was some evidence of integrety when you see a 600. bottle of wine getting a 87 rating. (rare)
I will be reading WS in detail to see if any mention of the “Awards” controversy is owned up to. Doubtful. “Glossed” over, probably. I am going to Amazon to all my friends who love wine your “trials 2010″ as new year gifts. Thanks for a great read.

By: Blind Taste / Robin Goldstein» Blog Archive » New study suggests that Wine Spectator advertisers get higher ratings

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:09:13 +0000

[...] are wine ratings, not the restaurant Awards of Excellence, which I’ve written about in the past; the applicants for those awards are advertisers by definition (having submitted a $250 [...]

By: Götzen-Dämmerung: La encuesta de la semana « La otra botella

Götzen-Dämmerung: La encuesta de la semana « La otra botella — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:08:39 +0000

[...] momento de reconocer las cosas por lo que son. En los últimos tiempos hemos visto la seriedad del Wine Spectator seriamente cuestionada. El mismo Robert Parker no la ha tenido muy fácil últimamente, [...]

By: Blind Taste / Robin Goldstein» Blog Archive » More on bicycle prices: but what about the common people?

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:06:35 +0000

[...] the unbiased expert judgment of those goods, the more we see pay-to-play “ratings” schemes like this and junketeering like this substituting for real judgment, propping up the prices of luxury goods [...]

By: Fearless Critic Champions D.C. Dining Underdogs | Northern Virginia Magazine

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:27:02 +0000

[...] founder Robin Goldstein–he who exposed Wine Spectator’s annual awards as basically a pay-to-play farce–has turned his investigative eye on the D.C. dining scene, a year+ project that’s [...]

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