Jamie Goode
Jamie Goode
Isn't it wonderful? I love this stuff.
Matusalem
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Joe Dressner
Joe Dressner
Did they fly you somewhere in their private jet?
Cory Cartwright
Cory Cartwright
Plot summary for Matusalem (1993)
"Fleeing from some other children who want to beat him, Olivier meets the ghost of a Pirate who every hundred years tries to find a parchment. Olivier agrees to help him. But in doing so he is captured by a bunch of pirates. The other children of the village discover a door thru time and space in an old haunted house and decide to rescue Olivier from Captain Monbars' pirates." - IMDB
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"Fleeing from some other children who want to beat him, Olivier meets the ghost of a Pirate who every hundred years tries to find a parchment. Olivier agrees to help him. But in doing so he is captured by a bunch of pirates. The other children of the village discover a door thru time and space in an old haunted house and decide to rescue Olivier from Captain Monbars' pirates." - IMDB
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Arjun Mendiratta
Arjun Mendiratta
Joe,
There's this thing called Google...
There's this thing called Google...
Ice Cream Man
Bob Graeter
The Gran Reserva is the shizzle! No better rum made to my taste.
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Unknown
Guest
Do they use RO?
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
Bless your gentle soul.
Jamie Goode
Jamie Goode
I love private jets. And helicopters. Flying scheduled is so wearisome.
Joe Dressner
Joe Dressner
Jamie is now a professional journalist.
I don't know if he was flown to the Dominican Republic to sample rums but Jamie does enjoy flying in a private jet.
Recently, he wrote a series of articles about Bernard Magrz's Bordeaux properties in Bordeaux.
Magrz is promoting luxury wine tourism and how else could Jamie review this luxury wine tourism without being a luxury wine tourist. Unfortunately, the money Jamie makes does not give him the buying power to participate, so Jamie gladly accepted a freebie from M. Magrz to write a review of luxury tourism and the Magrz chateau's wines.
Magrz felt it was important that Jamie get the full treatment to better appreciate the beauties of oeno-tourism. As Jamie wrote on his site:
To get a taste for what the Magrez brand of luxury wine tourism might involve, we travelled in style, flying out from London City airport on his private jet, and then transferring to helicopter to fly from Bordeaux airport over the Mdoc, to the first stop, Chteau La Tour Carnet, a 120 hectare estate with 68 hectares under vine.
Jamie spent some time with Magrz chatting, fine dining and tasting and numerically rating. He traveled by helicopter furnished by Magrz and was totally up front about it on his web site and thinks it is essential he have these type of contacts.
Jamie helicoptering over Bordeaux:
I'm happy for Jamie. He's come a long way from trolling on Robin Garr's board. I read his reviews of the Magrz wines, but did not see Jamie's review of Magrz's luxury tourism, the pretext for the trip. Perhaps it is somewhere on his site, but I can't find it.
With all this controversy about press junkets, it is great to see a journalist out there who unabashedly always has his hand out. As Jamie writes in explaining his ethical standards:
Accepting hospitality and trips isn't a big deal, in that I don't feel beholden at all. To someone outside wine journalism, the chance to travel to nice places and stay in nice places and eat nice meals might seem an enormous perk one that would leave you feeling you owed your host something. But here's the point: it's a two-way thing. You aren't just receiving; you are giving. Specifically you are giving your time and attention, without charge, and if the wines merit it, there's the possibility of coverage. Once you rise high enough in the journalistic pecking order, then you get so many offers of trips, it's not a big deal. Don't get me wrong: I love the travel part of my job, but I don't feel accepting trips places obligations on me, and I certainly don't demand any hospitality that is offered.
I don't know if he was flown to the Dominican Republic to sample rums but Jamie does enjoy flying in a private jet.
Recently, he wrote a series of articles about Bernard Magrz's Bordeaux properties in Bordeaux.
Magrz is promoting luxury wine tourism and how else could Jamie review this luxury wine tourism without being a luxury wine tourist. Unfortunately, the money Jamie makes does not give him the buying power to participate, so Jamie gladly accepted a freebie from M. Magrz to write a review of luxury tourism and the Magrz chateau's wines.
Magrz felt it was important that Jamie get the full treatment to better appreciate the beauties of oeno-tourism. As Jamie wrote on his site:
To get a taste for what the Magrez brand of luxury wine tourism might involve, we travelled in style, flying out from London City airport on his private jet, and then transferring to helicopter to fly from Bordeaux airport over the Mdoc, to the first stop, Chteau La Tour Carnet, a 120 hectare estate with 68 hectares under vine.
Jamie helicoptering over Bordeaux:
With all this controversy about press junkets, it is great to see a journalist out there who unabashedly always has his hand out. As Jamie writes in explaining his ethical standards:
Accepting hospitality and trips isn't a big deal, in that I don't feel beholden at all. To someone outside wine journalism, the chance to travel to nice places and stay in nice places and eat nice meals might seem an enormous perk one that would leave you feeling you owed your host something. But here's the point: it's a two-way thing. You aren't just receiving; you are giving. Specifically you are giving your time and attention, without charge, and if the wines merit it, there's the possibility of coverage. Once you rise high enough in the journalistic pecking order, then you get so many offers of trips, it's not a big deal. Don't get me wrong: I love the travel part of my job, but I don't feel accepting trips places obligations on me, and I certainly don't demand any hospitality that is offered.
Florida Jim
Florida Jim
While I understand and agree with this comment, I also understand those who believe that it is not just impropriety that is to be criticized, but also the appearance of impropriety.
Best, Jim
Jamie Goode
Jamie Goode
But Joe
don't you find it amusing that I'm just a dude who was trolling on Garr's board a few years back who now makes his living from doing essentially what I was doing then - writing about wine on the internet (as well as some magazines, a newspaper and some books).
I call wines as I see them, and I think that by publishing pictures of me on the steps of a private jet and the associated commentary I'm being totally transparent about conflicts of interest.
The sort of communication I'm involved with is much more transparent than old fashioned magazine journalism.
Victor - yes, it's Gonzalez Byas' fantastic Matusalem that I'm referring to. Utterly brilliant, even if it's not totally typical (it's a sweet Oloroso).
don't you find it amusing that I'm just a dude who was trolling on Garr's board a few years back who now makes his living from doing essentially what I was doing then - writing about wine on the internet (as well as some magazines, a newspaper and some books).
I call wines as I see them, and I think that by publishing pictures of me on the steps of a private jet and the associated commentary I'm being totally transparent about conflicts of interest.
The sort of communication I'm involved with is much more transparent than old fashioned magazine journalism.
Victor - yes, it's Gonzalez Byas' fantastic Matusalem that I'm referring to. Utterly brilliant, even if it's not totally typical (it's a sweet Oloroso).
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
We have to get him on board!
Jonathan Loesberg
Jonathan Loesberg
Jamie's justification is unpersuasive. But there is the Bob Dole position on dealing with lobbyists: "if you can't take their money, drink their booze, sleep with their prostitutes and still vote the way you want to, you shouldn't be a Senator." Now if some wine critic said that, I might believe him or her.
Bill Buitenhuys
Bill Buitenhuys
Sir Mensch A Lot?
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Do you believe that Magrez, or the others, would continue to offer you luxury junkets if you publish unflattering notes about their wines afterward?