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Ryan - tell me about it. We get several emails a day from people asking us to represent their products, or complaining because "our prices" are too low/high. And if not that, then people write to us complaining over the accuracy of how their products are portrayed - actually, i can understand that one. But its their other customers that mis-portrayed their products and not us, we just host the data that is sent to us from elsewhere.

Congratulations! and, i have to say, i love the previous post - thanks jenny for making me smile

Good post - it got me to go read the links to ablegrape as well as joel site.


I do defend a careful use of flash though. Snooth, Yelp and many other sites use such a tiny bit of flash that the average user doesnt notice it.



Clearly no one wants a minute long intro with music though.

Love the fart comment! Even Parker and Tanzer et al admit there's no difference between 87 and 88 points. However, given that one number is higher than the other, whats the casual enthusiast to think? Its about time the 100 point system was abandoned. When the guy who invented it, and the most famous people who use it all admit that there's no difference between similar scores (within 2 or 3 points) and only use a few percentage points in the range, all youve left is a 10 point scale with 80 odd points tacked on as a base level.

Sorry, I'm confused, why does their having a blog mean that Catavino will no longer cover them?

Good wine under $20 just talked about lillet - so its really a day of aperitif's. I love the stuff, but over here in the US its so hard to find most aperitifs or half the digestifs...

Gabriella - if thats the case, then i'd like to add "dont remove pages for wines that are sold out". Just because they are sold out, doesnt mean they no longer exist!

I actually thought #10 should be, as you said: "Blog Readers Please Contribute". ie. the blog readers should contribute by commenting.

Yeah, this is silly - its clear that education is whats needed. Most of the Brits i grew up with had already begun to calm their drinking habbits down by the time they reached legal age. Simply moving this line around isnt going to fix the problems. As Ryan says - take a look at America to for evidence of that

Ryan - you're right, i can see the average Portuguese retailer / winery or even importer taking zero advantage of this.


I dont think its the "chance of a lifetime" - we're talking 30 year careers here - however, its probably the biggest Portugal specific shift in a decade, so not to be passed over lightly. Lets get down to specifics here, and Ryan, you do a good job of that above, to connect with the GV crowd the producers need to embrace social media.



This is bigger than one person, this is people sharing information, directly, with each other. The milenials are a larger group than the baby boomers, and are drinking even more wine as they shift away from spirits and cheap beers. You've tens of millions of people who grew up using a computer (even the oldest milenials are just turning 30 now). As these people do everything online, and in the open, its clear that they deal with wine in the same way.



I feel like a broken record saying this now, but wineries need to empower their existing base of hard core evangelists to have the freedom and materials to market their product by weaving it into their daily actions online.

Gabriella and Ryan - congrats on 3 years. Ad free is an interesting move - interested to hear how it works out.

Ryan - thats great, although a little scary. I'm English, and used to work in finance. I remember first coming here and looking at company annual reports and seeing US revenue, and then RoW revenue.


It took me a while to realise that RoW meant Rest of World, and then it dawned on me that RoW is seen as a single country by far too many people.



Napa / Bordeaux / Budgundy = Anna / Paris / Brittney respectively...

Gabriella - Many congratulations, that sounds like quite an honor!


PS. Next time we at Snooth need to do anything for you (like our shamefully slow import of your tasting notes) it'll be done much much faster!



--Philip

Gabriella and Ryan - thats a fantastic effort you both put forth. Very impressive addition to you site. Thank you

Ryan - i'm a big fan of transparacy. The web enables it, but its good to see people, like you, shake the tree every now and then.

I didn't even know Decanter allowed comments. But once I did, I was glad to stumble across this article.


We may not all have English Language doctorates from Oxford, but there's an incredible value to single reviews in many cases, and to the aggregation of such data in all cases.



Here's a great review that was left by one of our 'common users' yesterday:





"Great color. Crushed red fruit, cassis, violet and anise nose. Big palate with layered smooth fruit. Complex. Great fruit character on finish. Still tight, but great potential here."



and here's another, much simpler, one:





'Delicious.'



Do I care that some random person found this wine delicious? What about if 14 out of 16 did? Or, how about 1 out of 5?



At some point, even the merest snippets of data become valuable when combined with others. How useful would a football chant be with just one participant?

The book is a very authoritative guide to Spanish wines and we are pleased to have permission to feature the Penin Guide reviews on our wine recommendation site when we launch in a few weeks time.