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On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 21:13:43 GMT, wrote:
>(This was forwarded to me without the URL, so here's the whole thing.
>IMHO, McCloskey sounds like a soulless, anal-retentive wine fascist. I
>can't wait to hear his take on sex. -- JJ)
An interesting and somewhat scary article, but I think it's wrong to
talk about this sort of thing in terms of fascism and democracy. I
don't think the guy is not a wine fascist. It's the winerys that are
chasing the Parker points; he's just helping them. And it's equally
wrong to claim that Parker is democratising wine.
The only politics here the advocacy of free market economics.
Companies aiming for the largest slice of the market so they can
maximise their profits. As such, I have no problems with that, but
the products of such a system are not of interest to me.
There are masses of shelf space lined with would-be 90-pointers, but I
find these very easy to ignore and do not notice supplies of style 1-3
(to use McCoskey's terminology) wines drying up.
Yes - I know there are examples of good traditional producers being
Parkerised, but id it really a big effect?
There are also a lot of traditional producer in Europe that used to
produce vast quantities of rubbish that have been vastly improved by
modern techniques aimed at producing good fruit.
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Steve Slatcher
http://pobox.com/~steve.slatcher
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