Asimov speaks up

Peter Creasey

Peter Creasey

Peter Creasey
Studies keep drawing the conclusion that people like cheap wines best and should not trust experts. But the findings say more about fears than tastes.
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The essential point the wine populists, and many of these studies, make is that ordinary people with little knowledge of wine prefer cheap wines to expensive ones, even if wine critics prefer more expensive bottles. Therefore, people should not listen to know-it-all wine critics because they will lead them to spend more for wines that are not to their tastes.
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Wine is a convenient subject for bashing because, let’s face it, it is intimidating and anxiety-producing no matter what silly steps the wine business takes to simplify or demystify it.
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In Wine and Critics, Populists Find an Easy Target

Any thoughts?

. . . . Pete
 
please read the last paragraph, quoted below. in case you are wondering, it is clear that asimov is not supporting the bashers.

"For those who believe they are demeaned by wine or wine writers, I would suggest it is the wine populists who are doing the demeaning, by pandering to inchoate feelings of fear and resentment. These feelings may well be real. But they are not caused by wine."
 
originally posted by robert ames:
uh, his (last) name is asimov.
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It's a pun: Asimov has finally made his move, therefore "Asimove"

And I thought this was the Smart Bored!
 
Sigh. Assumption piled on assumption. Pseudo sensory science. Gross stereotyping of both wine enthusiasts and "regular" consumers. Etc. But nice to see VLM get a quote in one of the reference links.
 
Hmm now I'm wondering if there's something wrong with me if I like the article from Jezebel better than the one from the New York Times.
 
originally posted by Cole Kendall:
Hmm now I'm wondering if there's something wrong with me if I like the article from Jezebel better than the one from the New York Times.
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the jezebel article is disorderly. asimov's isn't.
 
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