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 wine...
There are differences in the vintages, which will become more apparent as the wines age and evolve. Each vintage is unique. Perhaps 2020 is closest to 2018, for its opulent, velvet drenched, sensuous sty...
2016 has been a roller coaster year for life, and with wine. As far as wine goes, The 2016 Top Ten Wines of the Year in many wines is by year of drinking so far. Much of that has to do with my methodology of creating the list of my 2016 Top Ten Best Wines of the Year. Of course the wines are chosen for their quality, style and character. In some cases, scarcity matters ...
2011 Bordeaux: A difficult year in more ways than one. / It’s a reasonable debate as to which got off to a more difficult start, the vintage, or the effort to sell the wines. If you’re a wine maker, you’re probably going with the topsy-turvy 2011 growing season. If you’re a wine merchant offering Bordeaux futures, your vote is cast for the almost non-existent 2011 Bordeaux futures campaign.
2011 Bordeaux is the child of a difficult ye...
Jeff Leve- Founder, Contributor and Editor of “The Wine Cellar Insider”
The Wine Cellar Insider focuses on Bordeaux wine. Thousands of exclusive, searchable wine tasting notes with ratings, winery histories and profiles, images, in-depth articles, links and up to the minute harvest news. The Wine Cellar Insider also publishes special guest contributors ranging from chateaux owners, wine makers, consultants, negociants, retailers and more. T...
The Wine Cellar Insider focuses on Bordeaux wine. Thousands of exclusive, searchable wine tasting notes with ratings, winery histories and profiles, images , in-depth articles, links and up to the minute harvest news. The Wine Cellar Insider also publishes special guest contributors ranging from chateaux owners, wine makers, consultants, negociants, retailers and more. The Wine Cellar Insider is the world’s leading source for Bordeaux harvest ...
All About Bordeaux Wine, The Complete Bordeaux Wine Guide to the Best Bordeaux Wines and the Top Bordeaux Chateaux
This page is all about the best Bordeaux wine. It is the complete guide to the top Bordeaux wines, wineries and winemakers with easy to follow links to everything you want to know about all the best, Bordeaux wines, chateaux and vineyards featured in The Wine Cellar Insider .
This Complete All About Bordeaux Guide to Bordea...
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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.
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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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