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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | | | | DR. VINO JANUARY 12, 2011  Who makes money in wine writing? Consider Allen Meadows, who writes a quarterly e-newsletter Burghound , focusing almost entirely on Burgundy. Blogging is not a path to riches. | DR. VINO JANUARY 11, 2010 Does the Wine Advocate buy over $700,000 worth of wine a year? Parker publicly dismissed her assertion, saying she had “no clue as to whether I spend a dollar or a million dollars on wines to be tasted.&# ) In the related article , Marvin Shanken admitted that the Wine Spectator, which has many more subscribers and much higher revenues than the Wine Advocate, was dependent on free samples. | | | | | | | |
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DR. VINO | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2009 Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman
John Gilman, author of the newsletter The View from the Cellar , joins us again for a Q&A. You have a long piece about premature oxidation in your current newsletter. And by the way, some of the most profound and magical Piemonte wines I have ever tasted have been Giacosa white label bottlings. think not. am not hopeful. MORE >> -
ALICE FEIRING | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2008 Alice Feiring - In Vino Veritas
For example, winemakers now generally kill off natural yeasts with sulphur and replace them with designer strains that can add flavours of, say, strawberry, cocoa or banana.The yeasts are often fed urea when they get tired, to keep fermentation humming at ever-higher sugar and alcohol levels, thereby creating bigger bodied wines for todays tastes. MORE >> -
DR. VINO | MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2009 What’s in a score? [audio]
I recently posted about blind tasting Bordeaux 2005 with Robert Parker. Last week, via the “inaugural edition&# of his monthly e- newsletter, he produced his own summation of the public tasting, which included new, “official&# scores for all the wines tasted. But two wines scored 100. MORE >> -
DR. VINO | MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2009  Screwcaps, scores, riesling, the Loire, Cali cab: John Gilman part two
We’re back with Part Deux of our interview with John Gilman, author of the newsletter A View from the Cellar ( part one is here ). How do you make a screwcap-sealed wine taste and smell like rotting cabbage or burning rubber- put it in the cellar for a few years. Wine scores. German Riesling. just don’t get it. The Loire. MORE >> -
BROOKLYN GUY LOVES WINE | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2007 Did You See That (Part 2)?
Rusty Gaffney, the Prince of Pinot , writes and publishes a whole newsletter every week! His newsletter is called Pinot File and it is completely and endearingly devoted to Pinot Noir. What really intrigued me about this issue is the Oregon tasting (page6). Interesting to see how his tasting group scored the wines. MORE >>
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