The Oops File!

I've made a bunch of mistakes in the first six months of SLAKED! There's no querstion about that. So I want to take a second to set the record straight on a couple of points.

SLAKED! serves a dedicated market of wine lovers from across the world that wants independent tasting notes; not scores, not philosophical ramblings, not bullshit. If I like a wine, I write about it glowingly. I don't hide my approbation. Generally, I don't write about a wine if I really didn't like it; but sometimes I will.

I am not a professional wine critic and I don't pretend to be. I don't like wine snobs and I don't consider myself one. I do this because I enjoy it and it fills a niche. There are too many so-called critics in the world and I don't want to be one of them.

Among other things, I believe that natural cork is a beautiful thing, that wine should be tasted with food, "made in the vineyard," and that "terroir" is generally a useless marketing concept.

I hope this sets the record straight in some respects.

If you have found this cite helpful at all -- please leave a brief comment.

CORRECTIONS:

1. In the Wine Spectator's Wine Experience post I erroneously referred to the President of Ridge Vineyards as Don Reiss. His real name is Donn Reisen. My bad. Apologies to Mr. Reisen.

2. In the DC event in April, I was introduced by Kathryn Hall to someone I was given the impression was David Ramey. This was incorrect. I don't know who the hell the guy was that I met.

Anyway -- here's a big THANK YOU to everyone who's been visiting since the early days and encouraging SLAKED! along the way.