I know this is against the rules

Very amusing.
For CC's benefit (I'm asuming you're serious with your question, otherwise you'd have asked for "an URL"), it's a Dr Vino blog entry detailing an e-mail correspondence between a Mike Steinberger (Steenberger?) - anyway, a wine writer - and a chap called Squires, over a deleted thread on the "Got an URL?" forum.
It is with a great sense of national pride - a puffed out chest, in fact - that I can state that it is the turbo-charged extreme style of shiraz from my homeland - and its subsequent effect on US buying patterns and the vinous credibility of one R Parker - that is causing these ructions in the tectonic plates of North American wine criticism.
Anyway, Squires reactions didn't seem all that bad or unexpected to me. But then again, I share my house with a two-year-old...
cheers,
Graeme
 
Awesome, thanks, GG. I'm drinking a Kangaroo Crossing shiraz right now, so it's very topical. I'm a sucker for anything with a cute cartoon animal on the label, it's a silly weakness.
 
WA being the Wine Advocate.

Squires being Squires.

It's like a new episode of "Lost" which is really just a mix up of the last (however many) episodes.
 
originally posted by Chris Coad:
Awesome, thanks, GG. I'm drinking a Kangaroo Crossing shiraz right now, so it's very topical. I'm a sucker for anything with a cute cartoon animal on the label, it's a silly weakness.
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Yes indeed that is a great label. I should have kept that for myself or stuck my initials on it like a 1909 VDB cent or something.
 
originally posted by gregory dal piaz:
I should have kept that for myself or stuck my initials on it like a 1909 VDB cent or something.
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Wow. I had no idea you were a numistmatist. Of course you're obviously a newbie as it's the 1909 S VDB that everyone looks for.
 
originally posted by Gregg G:Thank you for the link. It's high time the little dictator gets his karmic reward.
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No doubt that on-line he can be heavy handed and at times..undiplomatic, but such vitriol. Have many here met him personally or tasted wine with him?

RT
 
originally posted by rdtrimpi:
originally posted by Gregg G:Thank you for the link. It's high time the little dictator gets his karmic reward.
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No doubt that on-line he can be heavy handed and at times..undiplomatic, but such vitriol. Have many here met him personally or tasted wine with him?

RT
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Why don't you check it out and report back?
 
originally posted by Joe_Perry:
WA being the Wine Advocate.

Squires being Squires.

It's like a new episode of "Lost" which is really just a mix up of the last (however many) episodes.
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Except his target was one of the finest wine journalists in America.

I'm still in awe, but I don't watch Lost.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by rdtrimpi:
originally posted by Gregg G:Thank you for the link. It's high time the little dictator gets his karmic reward.
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No doubt that on-line he can be heavy handed and at times..undiplomatic, but such vitriol. Have many here met him personally or tasted wine with him?

RT
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Why don't you check it out and report back?
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Good call. I definitely nominate anyone who is not me.

How about Chris/Brad/Sharon?
 
I've had dinner with him once, and he was fairly affable, as I recall. My view is that life is typically too short and precious to get too worked up over online conflict, and that it's far better to be fairly catholic in one's choice of dining and drinking companions, because there's always more to learn/discover, and online interaction (including e-mail) can often distort negatively.

That said - Kane is wrong and VLM is a silly little fuck.
 
Except his target was one of the finest wine journalists in America.
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I think that it was decided at the top a long while ago that Steinberger is on the Enemies List, so this was all fairly predictable. I'm sure an archive search on Chris' favorite invisible forum will reveal more than a few highly personal savagings from the Kahuna himself, though those are hardly difficult to find these days. If anyone has a taste for such things.

Personally, I think it's perfectly normal for readers (or even non-readers, though it's...less admirable...in that case) to take writers and critics to task, but the seemingly constant and yet ever-increasing sniping between professional writers is really regrettable and unfortunate. Worse, it's almost all in one direction these days, and though obvious examples can be found going the other way, they nearly always result in a doubling-down of the attacks. It doesn't speak well of anyone involved, but I think it's especially distasteful when those with the most power engage in little else.

Wine's more interesting.
 
originally posted by Yixin:
My view is that life is typically too short and precious to get too worked up over online conflict, and that it's far better to be fairly catholic in one's choice of dining and drinking companions, because there's always more to learn/discover, and online interaction (including e-mail) can often distort negatively.
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Exactly.
Best, Jim
 
it's far better to be fairly catholic in one's choice of dining and drinking companions
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Social calendar looks a little thin on repeat engagements, does it? (emoticon goes here)
 
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