Tasting note generator given 99+ pt rating!
Wine writers, already about as endangered as the Iberian lynx thanks to the sagging media world (not screwcaps), have something new to fear–automatically generated tasting notes! Have a taste of what the site spits out:
Fully refined almost corpulent Chenin Blanc. Hits you with sage, boggling cardboard and bashful mint. Drink now through 2009.
Now, a sample of “extra silly:”
Neo-classic but equally longingly elegant Zinfandel. Forces smoked oyster, acidic monster gasoline and corpulent jack cheese. Drink now through eternity.
Greg Sumner, the site’s creator and soon-to-be wine overlord, pulls back the curtain to reveal the formula:
How it works.
It’s very simple. I put word types into arrays, then chose a word at random out of the array. The tasting note comes out in the following structure:(Intro) (Modifier) (Adjective) (Varietal).
(Adverb) (Adjective) (Flavor) flavors, (Adjective) (Flavor), and (Strength-word) (Flavor).
Drink (When) through (EndWhen).
Whoa, keep this thing away from sommelier robots! At least they don’t have a random score generator–yet.
On July 22nd, 2010 at 11:19 am ,Kathy wrote:
Hey, I thought that was how it was done anyway! Ha!
It will be fun to see these plagiarized.
On July 22nd, 2010 at 12:30 pm ,Stevie wrote:
Well, it just goes to show that you can’t always believe everything that you read. Plus it confirms what we always say, you’ve got to taste for yourselves to figure out what you really like (and dislike).
On July 22nd, 2010 at 9:59 pm ,RobinC wrote:
I think I’ve seen this in use in a wine blog. Brilliant but hollow.
On July 24th, 2010 at 1:05 pm ,El Jefe wrote:
Holy crap. Those tasting notes are like I would write. Someone has modeled my brain! Aaaaaagh!
On July 27th, 2010 at 6:53 am ,Tim Atkin wrote:
That is the funnest thing I’ve seen this week.