You know it is a down economy when 7-Eleven comes out with its own wine for $3.99.
I don’t pay much attention to the absolute bottom of the wine price list, but it is the segment of the wine industry that is doing really well.  And I have to admit that doesn’t surprise me.   I personally […]

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Stephen Colbert apparently loved the recent paper that finds that 83% of people can not tell the difference between dog food and pate.
Great work by the authors - Robin Goldstein and John Bohannon.   And check out Robin’s new blog, Blind Taste.  It is worth a read.

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The driving force behind the creation of PalatePrint™ was that we hated to go to the wine store.Standing in front of a seemingly endless number of bottles, how could you possibly know what to buy? What wine fits my palate? What goes well with the roasted acorn squash and Gorgonzola pizza I am […]

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Brian and I started building Winescorecard back in November of 2006. We framed our original idea of using a compute algorithm as a tool to help people learn what kind of wines they like - to generate personalized wine recommendations based upon a person’s own individual taste. At the time, there really […]

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I was just reading July 2007 issue of Food & Wine magazine (I’m a little behind).
I like F&W - it is probably my favorite wine magazine. For the most part, it is not pretentious, gives good honest reviews, and has some truly wonderful recipes. Still, F&W succumbs to the snobbery sometimes.
Take, for […]

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