Wine drinkers.......Does it bother you when?!
I'm being anal about this because I just came home from shopping and this one liquor store had about a dozen of these mis-rating labels posted around the store. Blatant false advertising.
Answers: you go shopping for wine and there are all of these ratings posted in front of bottles from the wine spectator and the wine advocate and Robert Parker and they give the wine a good rating (like a 90). Then you look at the rating label and they are rating (for example) a 2003 wine and then you look at the wine being sold and it's a 2006.
I'm being anal about this because I just came home from shopping and this one liquor store had about a dozen of these mis-rating labels posted around the store. Blatant false advertising.
yeah, as a professional wino- that really irrates me. however lucky for me i have a small shop ran by a super knowledgeable genteleman and a winery all within 20 minutes of my house. i dread the thought of leaving this area.
Sorry, but I'm not that picky about my wine. I understand a different year can taste a bit different, but not enough to spoil my enjoyment of the wine.
I suggest you find a good winery in your area where they let you try their wine before you buy it
I personally don't buy from liquor stores
if you live in los angeles This is where I shop my wine
It is important for stores to have current info about product, however if its a product like Yellow Tail that does not change from yr to yr then I believe it makes no difference. In My opinion Buy from reputable wine makers from reputable merchants. Like Me. We do our own shelf talkers and seldom memtion awards.
I will drank no wine,
If I am asleep at the time.
luckily for me my fiance was a wine maker for years and so he is in charge of choosing the wine. a bonus is that when he doesnt like what the store has he calls one of the winery owners he knows and gets a "sampler" (a mix of bottles of wines that the winery makes) and we sample those. personally the ratings to me are unfamiliar as when i buy wine i buy what i know and stick with what i like: errenfelzer and guwertzdimeanor ( i know i totally slaughtered the spelling sorry)
I am more of a casual wine drinker and I get the feeling magazines and wine "professionals" are probably pretty snobby, so I ignore stuff like that.
Personally, I try to buy local (Oregon) wines and I get opinions from friends/family/coworkers and I go to wine tasting events to see which ones I like, then buy a few bottles.
A couple of points, first off, It is indeed deceptive advertising on the retailer's part, but shame on you for not reading the label ( caveat emptor!). Second, don't put too much stock in those ratings because they are a conglomeration of opinions jammed into an arbitrary system. EG, tell me the diff between a 91 and a90? There is like 4 or 5 main rating systems out there, so use them as they should be used - very broad indicators of quality, period.
By the way, find another retailer, this guy sounds like a rip off artist.