"Fake" Jay Miller leaves The Wine Advocate

[Oswaldo Costa]

He will be missed.

 

[David M. Bueker]

In the same wasy that Rick Perry will be missed by The Daily Show when Perry ultimately bows out of the presidential campaign.

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

Boo-yah!

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Whatever will "emerging wine regions such as Spain" do without him?

 

[SFJoe]

From El Mundo, on N. Martin:
En 2006 escribió que no entendía los vinos españoles ni le interesaban.

 

[Peter Creasey]

Is this the same Jay Miller who was associated with RP back during Prodigy days?

. . . . . . Pete

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by SFJoe:
From El Mundo, on N. Martin:
En 2006 escribió que no entendía los vinos españoles ni le interesaban.

Ah, but now it is his job to be interested. All the difference in the world.

Mark Lipton

p.s. TWA yet again misses a grand opportunity by not replacing "Dr. Big Jay" with the Real Jay Miller, a move that would have been occasioned with great fanfare and jubilation amongst the teeming throngs of the AFWE.

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by Peter Creasey:

Is this the same Jay Miller who was associated with RP back during Prodigy days?

. . . . . . Pete

Yep. and the same Mark Squires, too.

Mark Lipton

 

[Keith Levenberg]

I nominate Manuel as the replacement.

 

[SFJoe]

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
I nominate Manuel as the replacement.

I'm already "organizing" his trips.

Used bills preferred.

 

[David Erickson]

originally posted by SFJoe:

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
I nominate Manuel as the replacement.

I'm already "organizing" his trips.

Used bills preferred.

Well thank God somebody's tending to business.

 

[Yixin]

originally posted by SFJoe:

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
I nominate Manuel as the replacement.

I'm already "organizing" his trips.

Used bills preferred.

There goes the "half the usual price" pitch.

 

[Jeff Connell]

originally posted by SFJoe:

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
I nominate Manuel as the replacement.

I'm already "organizing" his trips.

Used bills preferred.

Misplaced quotations: "trips"

 

[VS]

Neal Martin has written a few more positive things about Spanish wine, including some detailed and laudatory comments about tastings of old Rioja, since he made that 2006 statement in his blog. (And he's also written a few other, again negative, ones). I've discussed this with him, and I think we're now talking about the same things: what's bad in his mind and mine is not Spanish wine in general, but the tendency to over-extract and over-oak, i.e. to spoof, shown by a number of (usually) new producers with little background in viticulture and the culture of wine, mostly creatures of the 1990s.

Of course much of this trend has been attributed to Parker's influence, so it should be interesting to see the new Parker man criticize it, as I think Martin will. Me, I go back a little longer and I think the trend was started over 30 years ago by Bordeaux-trained winemakers (quite a few Spaniards in the lot) who followed Émile Peynaud's dictums about lush ripe wines. But of course the trend accelerated as The Wine Advocate became ever more influential. Now, TWA critics such as Schildknecht, Galloni and Martin seem to be going in a different direction. In the case of Spain, it should be helpful when the spoofers are becoming progressively more isolated. We'll see.

 

[John McIlwain]

To quote Tim Wildman on Twitter:
"@nealmartin taking Spain & Argentina 4 ebob following J Miller exit. Easy countries to judge Neil - 3 fingers in punt = 94+, fist = 100 etc."

Succinctly put.

Best, John