Unfortunately, they are often moderated with a heavy hand: several voices have been expelled and some threads that have even a whiff of criticism are deleted in their entirety. And given that you are now an eminent wine critic, I wouldn’t think to challenge your knowledge. The forums at eRobertParker.com are a lively place. Thanks. MORE >>

haven’t crunched the numbers but Blake Gray did and found that new critic Antonio Galloni’s “midpoint” (not sure if this is the mean or median) was 92, up from 91 for Parker’s last set of reviews. Once that issue disappears subsequent vintages of a wine that got a higher rating won’t cause sales. MORE >>

Monsters & Critics ]. FOR SALE: one of the World’s Great Wine Estates…asking price: $10 million. SIPPED: wine lifestyle…in New Hampshire. Bode Miller, the gold medal skier who once admitted to racing while hungover, plans to become a vintner in his home state of New Hampshire. SIPPED: profits. Bloomberg ]. MORE >>

Back in New York for another edition of Return to Terroir, a roving show of Biodynamic wine producers, Joly leveled criticism at the appellation system (as he did three years ago at the event ). “The concept of appellation has lost its meaning,” he said. ” As he talked about life energies, he got more positive. winemaking MORE >>

While I could see grammar and readability in tasting notes–either user-generated or from critics–making a difference on sales, wine writing (for better or generally for worse) has its own Mechanical Turk for smoothing out all those pesky words: the score. I’m sure that would b gr8 4 sales…LOL GTG. MORE >>