Soldera, wine writing, couch — sipped and spit
CAUGHT: police have arrested a former employee for the recent destruction of six vintages of Soldera Brunello. A motive appears to be that he was not provided a “mini apartment” at the estate. [Corriere della Sera]
DECEIVED: Palate Press exposes a pattern of Natalie Maclean’s taking other writers’ tasting notes and placing them behind her paywall. Furor erupts both from writers and in the comments, where allegations of winery pay-to-play emerge. [PalatePress.com]
EULOGIZED: Hosemaster laments the death of wine writing. “Yes, Wine Writer had been horribly sick before he passed, a pathetic shadow of what he once had been, reduced to a kind of Laubotomized babbling, a sad and tired victim of Parkerson’s Disease, covered in nasty Suckling wounds, his Hugh Johnson Feiring nothing but blanks. ” [Hosemaster]
SPIT: on Facebook, commenters are wondering how many points to give James Suckling’s purple couch.
On December 19th, 2012 at 1:23 pm ,RobinC wrote:
From demoralizing to tragic. What’s next? The Mayan Apocalypse?
On December 20th, 2012 at 10:57 am ,Dr. Vino wrote:
Here’s a good account in English of the arrest of the Soldera ex-employee. Lots of drama–looking forward to the opera version!
http://bit.ly/VSndhW
On December 20th, 2012 at 7:03 pm ,John Glas wrote:
Poor Nat her career is just about over. Any one who promotes Santa Margherita as one of the best values in the liquor store should never make a nickel in this business.