Closing-In On Fully Automated Wine Reviewing
Lettie Teague of the Wall Street Journal suggests that wine description should be limited to 10 “simple, straightforward and readily understandable” words, none of which is “forest floor.”
Lettie Teague of the Wall Street Journal suggests that wine description should be limited to 10 “simple, straightforward and readily understandable” words, none of which is “forest floor.”
June 29th, 2010 at 9:45 AM
Lettie was a public relations consultant (perhaps you are familiar with the species?) She parlayed her marriage to a food critic(Alan Richman) into a wine column and eventually wine editor position at the curiously named lfestyle rag, Food and Wine. She has remained one of the most egregious offenders of the luxury junket for press scam, her tripe appearing in the one article about wine per issue that Food and Wine could find space for between lifestyle ads. I’ve said in the past, if you take WSJ advice on the markets you’ll be broke and if you take their advice on wine you’ll drink crap. I feel bad that Jay McInerny has been sucked in but he probably just replaced his jones for Peruvian marching powder with a thirst for LaTour and Margaux.
This the Paris Hilton part of wine. Why do you even notice it?
June 29th, 2010 at 11:33 AM
I wrote about Paris Hilton and wine here.
Does the concept of amusement mean nothing to you?