1, Pay no attention to critics. NONE.

2. NEVER taste wines. Wines are impossible (not difficult, IMPOSSIBLE)
to evaluate outside of the context of a full meal. Wines that are great
paired with a full meal often taste quite different when tasted alone,
and often taste peculiar.

Tasting wines is in principle stupid. Whoever started this should be
shot.


John LaCour wrote:
Hi folks

I'm a long time lurker and occassionly but rare poster.

Like many of you, I do read the reviews / tasting notes / scores from
various wine critics. What I have yet to do is understand the
difference in preferences between the critics and come to an
understanding which one(s) my personal preferences are aligned with.

So some questions for this group:

- Which wine critics are the best judges of quality wine in your
opinion?
- How would you describes the differences in preferences of, say,
Parker vs. Suckling?

I plan to do a blind tasting with my tasting group of wines where
critics seemed
to disagree on the quality of the wine. I imagine I'll need to some
some extensive research to find representative samples.

- Are there any wines that come to mind where different critics rated
them quite differently?

Thanks,
John