Don't like overpaying for wine when you eat out? Wine critic Robert Parker has an idea: boycott the restaurants. "The consumer should rebel and avoid exorbitant wine prices, no matter how sublime the cuisine. This is nothing more or less than a legitimized mugging."...
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My dad is an unlikely candidate for the label “wine snob.” He has never taken a single wine course, reads no wine books and only occasionally purchases a wine magazine, keeps no more than a handful of bottles in the house for immediate drinking, and never spends more than $25 on a bottle of wine. Yet he loves sticking his nose into a glass of wine and calling out what he smells at the dinner table.
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My main problem with most wine critics like Robert Parker Jr., and magazines like Wine Spectator is that they have specific tastes that don’t always correspond to my own. Another problem I have, even as a wine professional, is remembering all the wines I’ve tasted, what they tasted like, and whether I liked them. Two new relatively new websites, Snooth and Cork'd solve these problems and do a bit more. On these sites, you can create a profile, which allows you to record your tasting notes and review and rate wines, find wine ratings from other users, see what your drinking buddies think, and receive recommendations and buy wines from a retailer. They also both act as online communities that...
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