The Fearless Critic Washington DC Area Restaurant Guide (Fearless Critic Media, 608 pages, paperback, $15.95, distributed by Workman) is now on its way to stores. The book reviews 500 restaurants in the greater DC area, including the Maryland and Virginia suburbs out to the Beltway. You can pre-order the book on amazon.com, which should receive Full Article…
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Talk at Spain’s FENAVIN: “Critics for sale? Blind Tasting and the Honest Wine Movement”
At FENAVIN, the Spanish wine industry fair, in Ciudad Real on May 15 (blog entry at Aprende a Catar Vino (Spanish); articles about the talk at El Día del Ciudad Real, Cava Argentina, La Comarca de Puertollano, and Vendimia), I will talk talked to the Spanish wine industry on the following topics: 1. Are most wine critics impartial judges of quality, or are Full Article…
Fearless Critic Austin Restaurant Guide, 2nd Edition, is now out
The Fearless Critic Austin Restaurant Guide, Second Edition (Fearless Critic Media, 592 pages, paperback, $15.95, distributed by Workman) has been released. The book’s scope has been vastly increased, from 390 to 480 restaurants in the greater Austin, Texas area, including Round Rock and the Hill Country. It’s now available on amazon.com, and here’s a list of the Full Article…
The truth behind Wine Spectator’s “significant efforts to verify the facts”
In the course of damage control, Wine Spectator Executive Editor Thomas Matthews and others have made several questionable statements. Although it had been my policy not to respond to them (or to the name-calling–“mugger” has been my favorite), there seems to be enough uninformed debate going on in the blogosphere that I wanted to set Full Article…
What does it take to get a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence?
My name is Robin Goldstein, and I’m the author of a new book called The Wine Trials (book here; website here). Lately, I’ve become curious about how Wine Spectator magazine determines its Awards of Excellence for the world’s best wine restaurants. As part of the research for an academic paper I’m currently working on about Full Article…
The Wine Trials released
My new book, The Wine Trials (Fearless Critic Media, 208 pages, paperback, $14.95, distributed by Workman Publishing), has been released. It’s now available on amazon.com, at Whole Foods Market stores nationwide, and at bookstores everywhere. About the book: Shows that in blind tastings, everyday wine drinkers actually prefer cheaper wines to more expensive wines Reviews 100 Full Article…
Do more expensive wines taste better?
Here’s the article we published showing that most wine drinkers prefer cheaper wines to more expensive wines: Do More Expensive Wines Taste Better? Evidence from a Large Sample of Blind Tastings (Journal of Wine Economics, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2008). Robin Goldstein, Johan Almenberg, Anna Dreber, John W. Emerson, Alexis Herschkowitsch, and Jacob Katz. Abstract: Individuals Full Article…