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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    11/16/09

    In reply to All Wine Is Crap
    It's a really well-written article. The Nils Bohr quote at the end about the nature of belief and scientific verifiability alone makes the article worthy of a read. #wine
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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    11/16/09

    In reply to All Wine Is Crap
    All you have to do is pick any five adjectives at random. Fincky, yet foamy with an overconfident and wry pluckiness. #wine
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/16/09

    In reply to All Wine Is Crap
    Joshua Greene, editor and publisher of Wine and Spirits, who told me, "It is absurd for people to expect consistency in a taster's ratings. We're not robots."

    From the horse's mouth itself. Congratulations Joshua Greene, you just admitted that wine tasting is a fucking sham. #wine
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    11/16/09

    In reply to All Wine Is Crap
    I was just in Rome for a week. Now, you can find Italian wine there which is not just drinkable, but pretty decent for 5 euros or less. I get that that wine needs to be imported to the US and that drives the price up here.

    But why the fuck is decent American wine so expensive in America? Why can't I buy something from California that costs 5 or 6 bucks and is totally decent? It really pisses me off. Rarely is something less than $10 even drinkable, and it's a real crapshoot even at that price point. #wine
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    Image of mfnher mfnher
    11/16/09

    In reply to All Wine Is Crap
    Meh, I don't think it's all crap. The big problem is tasting too many wines in too short a time. That's why Wine Spectator consistently rates higher alcohol wines with higher points. The alcohol bomb makes them stand out from the pack. It's also one of the reasons so many California wines completely suck. #wine
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    11/16/09

    In reply to All Wine Is Crap
    I only buy Pouilly-Fuissé because of Cheech and Chong. #wine
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    Image of blix blix
    11/16/09

    In reply to All Wine Is Crap
    A plebian little article whose undercurrents of impertinence may amuse you with its presumption. #wine
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    Image of eatsshootsleaves eatsshootsleaves
    11/16/09

    @blix: A piquant, if unmerited, comment with penetrating notes of neo-bohemian sourness. Excellent with white fishes. 88/100. #wine
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    Image of blix blix
    11/16/09

    @eatsshootsleaves: Say, you've done this before. Well done. So many people don't understand. You should have seen the look on the face of the guy at the bodega when I asked for unoaked MD 20/20. #wine
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    Image of Spy from the Land of Rainpeople Spy from the Land of Rainpeople
    11/16/09

    @blix: I'm not up to speed on oenophilia, but I wonder what is the progress there in comparison to audiophilia.

    Audiophile magazines started as a reviews of records, then moved to reviewing amplifiers and transducers and finally ended up reviewing cables.

    In audiophile magazines there are reviews for things like Bedini Ultra-clarifier (a demagnetizer for compact disks.) Long ago I remember reading a wine publication that had a round-table discussion comparing tooth veneers used by the tasters.

    What kind of wine paraphernalia are getting sold in the wine publication these days? #wine
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    11/16/09

    In reply to All Wine Is Crap
    The worst lunch I ever attended consisted of me and my husband clawing each other in the legs while four twenty-something idiots spent several hours pretending to know things about wine. This eight-word post just brought that entire lost afternoon flooding back. F you, Hamilton. #wine
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    08/14/09

    In reply to The New York Times Is Now a Bodega
    This post sounds like the New York Times "Whine Club."

    Ha! That’s my joke!
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    08/14/09

    In reply to The New York Times Is Now a Bodega
    They'd better have a cat. A bodega is supposed to have a cat.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    08/14/09

    In reply to The New York Times Is Now a Bodega
    The logo could've been better. I'm sure a designer could have found a way to turn the NYTimes "T" into a wine glass. Other than that, I don't see what the problem is. Why does Gawker hate wine so much?
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    Image of dado dado
    08/14/09

    In reply to The New York Times Is Now a Bodega
    What if other publications jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge?
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    08/14/09

    In reply to The New York Times Is Now a Bodega
    Eric Asimov a shill? There should be an investigation.
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    08/14/09

    In reply to The New York Times Is Now a Bodega
    Howie Kurtz is the new Robert Parker.
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    Image of Victor Ward Victor Ward
    08/14/09

    In reply to The New York Times Is Now a Bodega
    I suspect this is just an excuse for the print industry to start drinking on the job, which is totally what I would be doing if I worked at the NYT.
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