tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392866426745021699.post7405950944937070837..comments2024-03-29T08:47:59.918+01:00Comments on The Wine Gourd: Do community wine-quality scores converge to the middle ground?David Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578729952036086391noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392866426745021699.post-23982902554021978112017-12-18T02:07:37.823+01:002017-12-18T02:07:37.823+01:00There are quite a few Cellar Tracker scores for th...There are quite a few Cellar Tracker scores for the NV version, spread over the past 10 years. These presumably represent different releases, but not back as far as you are discussing. These data might be worth looking at.<br />David Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11578729952036086391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392866426745021699.post-44200786349990072352017-12-17T03:05:57.076+01:002017-12-17T03:05:57.076+01:00One of the great "non-vintage" (the Fren...One of the great "non-vintage" (the French would correctly describe it as "multi-vintage") tête de cuvée Champagnes is Laurent-Perrier "Grand Siècle" Brut Champagne -- a blend of three declared vintages.<br /><br />Back in the early 2000s when the 1982/1985/1988 vintage blend was released, it was an overachiever.<br /><br />In my humble opinion, no subsequent three vintage blend has topped it.<br /><br />Contemporary collectors are frustrated in trying to buy that specific bottle at auction, because there is no notation on any of the bottles on the vintage blend.<br /><br />That information came from the press release accompanying its original debut.<br /><br />(Based on the Laurent-Perrier example, I suspect the multi-vintage Veuve Clicquot Brut Champagne has benefited on occasion from "greater" vintages going into the blend.)<br /><br />With the recent fraud prevention practice of laser etching disgorgement dates on Champagne bottles, future collectors will know what blended vintage bottling they have.Bob Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02089688073031173053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392866426745021699.post-55533481690878526432017-12-17T01:51:59.777+01:002017-12-17T01:51:59.777+01:00Bob,
I don't think that the comparison is too...Bob,<br /><br />I don't think that the comparison is too much like apples and oranges, more like different cultivars of apples. The champagne companies go to a fair bit of trouble to make their blends consistent.<br /><br />Sadly, there are not enough scores to be worth looking at any of the Grand Cru marques.<br />David Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11578729952036086391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392866426745021699.post-68497713033824296232017-12-11T09:50:06.453+01:002017-12-11T09:50:06.453+01:00Regarding the Veuve Clicquot Brut Champagne, quali...Regarding the Veuve Clicquot Brut Champagne, quality scores were recorded over 5,000 days (if I read the X-axis correctly in the two-axis plotted graph).<br /><br />Given that the wine is a non-vintage blend, it begs the question: are all 894 respondents drinking the same wine?<br /><br />With quality scores posted over 5,000 days (13.7 years), multiple sequential bottles of that wine would have been released to the market. Each sequential bottling comprising different discrete blending vintages.<br /><br />That would be an "apples-to-oranges" comparison.<br /><br />(Wines blended from "great" vintages would be expected to garner more favorable quality scores than those from "lesser" vintages.)<br /><br />What would the plotted data look like if you narrow the analysis to a single declared vintage of Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame?Bob Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02089688073031173053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392866426745021699.post-43082468485086593612017-12-11T09:35:12.358+01:002017-12-11T09:35:12.358+01:00Here in the United States, what influences a consu...Here in the United States, what influences a consumer to purchase a bottle of wine?<br /><br />Well . . . not necessarily a published wine critic.<br /><br />Referencing a Wine Opinions online survey cited by W. Blake Gray in his wine blog titled "Social media doesn't sell much wine":<br /><br />"Purchase Influences"<br /><br />Link: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZgHHdvhpGvg/WJvNd5wYcyI/AAAAAAAAGvU/87oXLHPBmSwICHyxOyp6dafu0EJAlReAQCEw/s1600/influences.tiff<br /><br />Dedicated wine enthusiasts seem to be an independent-minded lot!Bob Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02089688073031173053noreply@blogger.com