The wait is over as the spotlight shines on the crème de la crème of the wine world – the esteemed wine critics chosen in the BWW2024 (Best Wine Critic of the World) competition. This unique event stands alone as the ultimate platform for recognizing the globe's finest wine critics, where the victors are determined through a democratic process of voting on tasti...
Tb: Your illustrious career has been ongoing for quite some time,
"Understatement! 48 years!"
and you have been particularly praised for your impartiality and "incorruptibility" - these factors surely contributed to your selection as the world's best - what aspects do you consider particularly important to succeed as a wine critic?
"If I look at my career, I’d say it has been ...
Tb: What aspects you consider particularly crucial to succeed as a wine critic, and how have you succeeded in them personally?
"An unbiased and open minded approach to every wine is crucial, the neutral analysis has to be put above personal taste. In addition it is indispensable to communicate the tasting notes in a way that the readers can imagine the wines quality and the ...
Tb: What aspects you consider particularly crucial to succeed as a wine critic, and how have you succeeded in them personally?
"I am always humbled by great wines and hopefully that appreciation helps me to be a good wine critic, someone that tries to listen to what the wine has to say even when it is a whisper.
Tb: Which wine critics are you Jeannie following?
"I admire...
Tb: What aspects you consider particularly crucial to succeed as a wine critic, and how have you succeeded in them personally?
"As a wine critic, several crucial aspects contribute to success: A wine critic must have a well-developed palate to accurately assess and evaluate wines. Effective communication skills are vital for conveying evaluations and recommendations to readers or c...
Tb: What aspects you consider particularly crucial to succeed as a wine critic, and how have you succeeded in them personally?
"I am very grateful to have received this prestigious award three times in a row now. Thank you for organising this fantastic voting, dear Pekka. Congratulations to Jancis and all the others from whom I have learned so much over the years. From my perspective, ...
Tb: What aspects you consider particularly crucial to succeed as a wine critic, and how have you succeeded in them personally?
"Integrity, consistency, clarity. We live in a world where bias is not always declared, where flashy sensationalism is rewarded, and diversity of opinion is becoming more challenged. It is the role of the wine writer to have clarity of vision, to learn a...
Tb: What aspects you consider particularly crucial to succeed as a wine critic, and how have you succeeded in them personally?
"Because you asked, these are the qualities I find to be paramount in a wine critic. Honesty, consistency, and the ability for the critic to have and be able to use their voice to express not only what is in the glass, but the emotions that the best wines bri...
Tb: What aspects you consider particularly crucial to succeed as a wine critic, and how have you succeeded in them personally?
"An unbiased and open minded approach to every wine is crucial, the neutral analysis has to be put above personal taste. In addition it is indispensable to communicate the tasting notes in a way that the readers can imagine the wines quality and the ...
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- Add a profile picture and more information about yourselves
- Click iFollow (Discover) from the top menu
- Tastingbook has added automatically into your wine world 5-10 of the most active professionals or Pro's as we call them.
- Search for more pros or other users by typing their name in the search field. Then click into my world to those who you want to include in your wine world. This way, you may be notified when they taste wines or comment on them.
- You can also add wines and wine producers into your wine world. This allows you to access the most up-to-date information about them.
- Click your username on the top menu and choose invite
- Type your friends email addresses and click send invites
- You can follow the status of your invitation on the same page
4.1. Click the New tasting button from the top menu.
- Name the tasting as you wish.
- Set the place and time (You can also add your past tasting notes by just changing the date)
- Click the add new wine button on the right to add new wines to the tasting.
- Now go to the box that says 'Click to add the wine'.
- Start by typing the wine or producer name and select the wine from the list that appears.
- After you have selected the wine, the vintage selection will be opened automatically
- Select the correct vintage by clicking on it.
4.2. Next, click My tasting note box and the worlds most advanced tasting
- From the bottom left of the tasting tool you can select in which language you want to use and view tasting notes.
- just do your wine note by clicking the correct adjectives. The adjectives can be activated by clicking once, or de-activated by clicking again.
- Tastingbook Pros will teach you while you taste wines.
At the bottom of the page in the section Show notes of, you may view notes of the professionals by clicking Pro's. If any of the tastingbook pros have tasted the wine before their opinion will show in the gold colored frames around the adjectives on the tasting view.
4.3. After you have completed your wine note, it's time to give Tb points.
Click the box on the bottom right Give points.
In case you want to add any comment or personal thoughts related to this wine, you may tick the note box next to the scores. In this field you may add copy-pasted texts for instance your old notes, etc.
4.4. After you've completed your notes for all the wines, click Close tasting.
You may now share some general thoughts about the tasting or tasted wines and choose with whom you want share your tasting. Set the Tasting privacy to limit the audience who are able to view your tastings information. We suggest you use Everyone as most of the wine experiences are meant to be shared.
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If a wine that you are tasting is not found in our database, please be kind enough to send us an email to: addwine@thetastingbook.com, please include at least the wine name and producer. We will add the wine in tastingbook within 24 hours.
Tastingbook is full of information about wines, vintages, and wineries and also has over 30.000 pictures of wines. To best way to find what you are looking for is to browse the site from the Browse field in the top right corner.
You may search for wine, vintage, producer, pros or other community members by typing the name in the browse field. You may then choose from the drop down menu.
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