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You're Pulling My Cork

Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at 11:14AM by Registered CommenterCraig Camp in | Comments7 Comments

wineclown.jpgIt’s a joke, right? The Wine Enthusiast selects 2004 DeLoach 30th Anniversary Pinot Noir number 1 at the pinnacle of its top 100 wines of the year list. If this wasn’t so ridiculous it would be painful. However, we can retain our sense of humor because no one actually cares what The Wine Enthusiast thinks. No harm, no foul.

“It’s a huge mouthful of cherry pie and cassis,” oozes The Wine Enthusiast in their tasting note on the DeLoach. It’s clear that whoever did these notes had never tasted pinot noir before or, perhaps thought they were blind tasting zinfandel.

Just in case you doubt the absurdity of this top 100 list, just look at the number 2 wine of the year - 2003 Chateau St. Jean Reserve Chardonnay. If your top wines of the year were DeLoach Pinot Noir and Chateau St. Jean Chardonnay you are not drinking enough (or way too much Drunk.) wine or you don’t know what you’re tasting - or both. 

Oddly enough, both of these wines are produced by big corporations with large advertising budgets, but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence. 

I subscribe to almost every wine publication I can think of, but I’m tired of tossing The Wine Enthusiast into the recycling unread and will not renew my subscription. There is just no reason to read what has become nothing more than a bad copy of The Wine Spectator.

The Wine Enthusiast has accomplished one thing. They make The Wine Spectator look good and that’s not an easy thing to do.

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Reader Comments (7)

I recently purchase 2003 Mouton Rothschild and it had a green tax stamp on the top of the bottle. As this is an expensive wine should I be concerned?
January 31, 2007 | Unregistered Commenterdbblues
Please disregard the shameless self-promotion but at 3wineguys.com, we "drink" wines. We don't "taste" them. Hell, we've been called 3winedouchebags by some of our critics (and subsequently took that web domain as well) We picked Carlo Rossi's fine "Chablis", Harlow Ridge's quaint Pinot Noir and Turning Leaf's delicious White Zinfandel as our Wines of The Year. If our podcast thing doesn't pan out...maybe I, or all of us, can get a job a Wine Enthusiast.
February 13, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterEl Stevo
Why would you "drink" those wines, much less recommend them, considering how many real wines are available at similar prices. If you're going to "drink" commercial industrial plonk, you might as well drink good plonk.
February 13, 2007 | Registered CommenterCraig Camp
Ummm...In addition to being 3db's, we're also 3 smart-asses. The wines listed was just a joke Craig. Check out our website and/or podcasts to see what we really drink. Just recorded 2005 Oregon Pinot Noir last week. Elk Cove, Penner Ash, Sineann...just to name a few...we should have that posted in the next week or so. The wines showed very well. We're recording 2004 Cali-Chard this week. Sbragia, Varner, Newton, Ramey...it should be a great show.
February 13, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterEl Stevo
OK, now I get the joke and will check out your podcasts.
February 13, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterCraig Camp
Cool! If you had read my reply to your "It's a Boy" blog earlier, you would have gotten the jist of my joke right away. Cheers!

FYI: We have an explicit rating on i-tunes due my inability to muffle f-bombs. But it's all in good fun...liek I said, we're definitely drinkin'!
February 14, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterEl Stevo
You're definitely drinkin' the bad stuff.
March 1, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterCraig Camp

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