New York Times wine columnist Eric Asimov has been rolling out the advice lately for how wine reviewing ought to change. In a series of
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Wine is a Process; Forget About Consistency
Wine statistics guru David Morrison has done great work evaluating the degree to which wine scores are consistent between critics and repeatable by the same
The Wine Critic’s Job (part 2): Tracking Variation
In my last post in this series on wine criticism I argued that the job of the wine critic is to make readers aware of
The Abilities of a Good Wine Critic (Part 6 in a series)
I argued recently that the job of the wine critic is to help readers appreciate a wine by communicating the properties and appropriate responses to
The Wine Critic’s Job (#5 in a series on wine criticism)
In this series of posts I’ve been arguing that the primary purpose of wine criticism is to aid in appreciation. Thus, to provide an account
The Mixed Legacy of Robert Parker
To what degree do wine critics influence wine quality? This is a complicated question but in my 3 Quarks essay this month I begin to
