Tasting notes...!!
In the light of Jumillagate/Murciagate, it is very interesting to see Michel Bettane's damning comments made at the World Wine Symposium reported in The Drinks Business:
'“Producers who pay critics are idiotic,” he said. “They really shouldn’t be doing this. If 'critics' accept compensation for tasting wines, then I don’t believe them to be true critics. Corruption exists quite obviously in the wine world today."
Chairing the debate alongside Bettane, The Wine Advocate writer David Schildknecht said certain producers view critics like machines: “They want to find out how many points you will spit out if you insert your credit card.”'
Read the Drinks Business article here.
What, I wonder, does David Schildknecht, one if the key members of Team Parker, think of Jay Campo's Spanish circus?
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2 comments:
Bettane is right.
By the way, I once read that to make a good corruption, you need a corruptor and a corrupted.
Is our image as wine critics so bad? Do we really look like frauds?
Hervé. It shouldn't be that bad. Unfortunately as you know rot, if left unchecked, spreads rapidly...
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