Wine critic
Wine critics are writers, journalists and wine connoisseurs who are considered experts in the wine market. You taste and evaluate wine as facts and publish their judgment.
Assessment
The wine reviews are both linguistically expressed with the special vocabulary of the language of wine, as well as by means of additive number systems. The evaluation takes place after a tasting, which can be performed blind or having regard to the tasted wine. The tasting will focus on researching, analyzing, describing and classifying a wine. The wine critics use of for the classification of a more or less precise appearing rating scale.
Effect
Wine critics have through their publications and media activities awareness, image, pricing and style of many wines affected. A world exposed impact on the wine industry here have disputed in the professional world of wine reviews from Robert Parker, connected to its nominal rating system, Parker points, based on a two-valued logic.
Criticism
A frequently voiced criticism of the based on number systems scoring of wine critics is that a divalent good-bad logic the wine can not be displayed in all its complexity, since it does not inorganic, but a biochemical solution was, in their appropriate judgment a polyvalence to Wear comes. Is regarded here as problematic that the wine market and price developments Parker points reviews follow largely uncritical and vested interests. In addition, particularly international critics and opinion leaders such as Robert Parker and Jancis Robinson would occur as a universal taste judges and thereby promote the interests of certain consumer markets as a flavor standard worldwide. Result was a gradual alignment of the wine regions traditionally grown wine and taste cultures to the unclaimed by some critics market conformity.
Renowned wine critic
Well-known international wine critics Robert Parker, Michael Broadbent, Hugh Johnson, Michel Bettane, Oz Clarke and Jancis Robinson. In the German-speaking area are well-known wine expert Stuart Pigott, Armin Diel, Mario Scheuermann, Till Honestly, Gerhard acorn man, Marcus Hofschuster, Ulrich Sautter, Golo Weber, Eckhard Supp, Peter Moser, August F. Winkler, Chandra and René Gabriel. In Italy was Luigi Veronelli ( 1926-2004 ) as an influential wine critic.
- See also: restaurant review, gourmet