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Following are the Wine Lovers' Voting Booth results for the years 2001, 2000 and the last few weeks of 1999:
Dec. 28, 2001
Total Votes: 404 How many wines did you taste during 2001?
| Less than 6 |  4 (0%)
| | 6-12 (monthly or less) | 13 (3%)
| | 13-24 (about two per month) | 21 (5%)
| | 25-52 (weekly or less) | 52 (12%)
| | 53-104 (up to twice a week) | 57 (14%)
| | 105-156 (up to three times a week) | 49 (12%)
| | 157-182 (about every other day) | 41 (10%)
| | 183-365 (up to daily) | 54 (13%)
| | 365-500 | 38 (9%)
| | 500 or more | 75 (18%)
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Dec. 14, 2001
Total Votes: 219 Perfect gift for a wine fanatic
| Riedel "1982 First Growth Bordeaux" Glass | 8 (3%)
| | Screwpull lever screw-cap unscrewer | 11 (5%)
| | Wine Spectator Guide to Robert Parker's Top Wines | 16 (7%)
| | Bang & Olufsen Virtual Disc Drink Coaster | 1 (0%)
| | WineLoversPage.com "gimme" cap | 1 (0%)
| | WineLoversPage.com "gimme" top hat | 2 (0%)
| | Laguiole corkscrew with mastodon tusk handle | 23 (10%)
| | Oak-Away de-flavoring agent | 12 (5%)
| | Magne-Cave miracle wine aging magnet | 1 (0%)
| | Baby's first Riedel - the Vinum Sippy Cup | 12 (5%)
| | Yellow rain slicker for sip-and-spit tastings | 2 (0%)
| | Sterling silver Champagne de-bubbler | 1 (0%)
| | Waterproof PDA for recording wine notes | 4 (1%)
| | Wireless PDA for posting wine notes live on the Web | 6 (2%)
| | L.L. Bean hand-knitted wine-bottle cozy | 3 (1%)
| | Battery-powered wineglass swirler | 7 (3%)
| | Book light for reading winelist in dim eatery | 2 (0%)
| | Lawrence Welk's "Best Wine Themes" on CD | 3 (1%)
| | Mahogany trophy case for prized empty bottles | 15 (6%)
| | Ferragamo tie with wine-label pattern | 4 (1%)
| | Yves Saint Laurent boxer shorts with wine-label pattern | 6 (2%)
| | "Petrus-in-a-can" room air freshener | 19 (8%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 60 (27%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- $100 ( or $200 ?) gift certficate from his/her local wine shop (1 votes)
- "That wine is mine" (1 votes)
- "Vintage!" Palm PDA Wine tasting-pairing Journal and cellar inventory (1 votes)
- "Wine descriptor" magnetic fridge poetry kit (1 votes)
- 30 year old copy of Alexis Lachine for wine history (1 votes)
- A 3pack of N.Z. Cream Liqueurs from European Vintage Wines[New Zealand] (1 votes)
- A Bottle of 1982 Lafite (1 votes)
- A bottle of Pétrus or Romanée-Conti - good vintage (1 votes)
- a bottle of wine (1 votes)
- A combination of all of the above (1 votes)
- A good bottle of WINE!!! (1 votes)
- A licensed Tom Hill Cod-Piece (1 votes)
- A matuzalem of a great wine (1 votes)
- A selection of imported beers (1 votes)
- A silk hankerchief to sob into when that special bottle turns out to be corked. (1 votes)
- A travel cooler that will always keep my whites and reds at the precise optimum serving temperature! (1 votes)
- a vineyard would suit me fine (1 votes)
- A Wine-Loving Significant Other (1 votes)
- Autographed Stuart & other photo (1 votes)
- Bordeaux First Growth from a great year (1 votes)
- bottle of 1996 mouton rothschild (1 votes)
- Champagne flavoured toothpaste (1 votes)
- champagne saber ! (1 votes)
- computerized wine analyzer so i can be spared tasting sub 95 point wines (1 votes)
- Designer Burgundy Grand Cru in a Can air freshner (1 votes)
- Double Magnum Cork Screw (1 votes)
- Dressing screen painted as a full wine cellar (1 votes)
- Enough foie gras to justify opening a special stickie (1 votes)
- gift certificate to a favorite wine shop (1 votes)
- Gift certificate to local wine shop - they will want to select themselves (1 votes)
- Gift certificate to their favorite wine store! (1 votes)
- Good wine (1 votes)
- hocine (2 votes)
- Jancis Robinson in a stocking (1 votes)
- Jancis Robinson's Guide to wine on the Internet with a forward by Robin Garr (1 votes)
- Judging what most wine geek men look like and dress...the best gift you can give them is a woman!! (1 votes)
- Jumbo drum of "Draper perfume" (1 votes)
- Louis Vuitton leather Riedel Glass and Bottle Tote (1 votes)
- my personal sommelier.com (1 votes)
- One bottle from each of the Virginia wineries, based on their most notable selection. (1 votes)
- one Bottle St.Joseph ,Trollat (1 votes)
- One respectably large stone from the best section/owner-producer's portion of every one of the world (1 votes)
- Picnic-Time Wine Tote (1 votes)
- Post War to present La Tâche vertical ! (1 votes)
- Replacement liver so can taste more wine (1 votes)
- Riedel one-liter glass (1 votes)
- Subscription to eRobertParker.com (1 votes)
- That nifty Japanese pill that allows you to drink all your want and not get drunk! (1 votes)
- The Bottomless Bottle Of Sangiovese (1 votes)
- Theresa and a dozen figs (1 votes)
- Time Machine (1 votes)
- Um. Wine? (1 votes)
- Wine (3 votes)
- wine picturesphotos,prints for the cellar (1 votes)
- Wine thermometer (1 votes)
- WINE! (1 votes)
- wine-geek bullshit sifter (1 votes)
Nov. 26, 2001
Total Votes: 508 The best French wine value comes from ...
| Alsace | 29 (5%)
| | Beaujolais/Mâcon | 123 (24%)
| | Bordeaux | 32 (6%)
| | Burgundy | 8 (1%)
| | Champagne | 3 (0%)
| | Jura/Ain/Savoie | 2 (0%)
| | Languedoc | 102 (20%)
| | Roussillon | 7 (1%)
| | Sud-Ouest | 13 (2%)
| | Provence | 14 (2%)
| | Loire | 48 (9%)
| | Rhone | 127 (25%)
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Nov. 16, 2001
Total Votes: 633 My favorite cork extractor is ...
| T-type | 6 (0%)
| | Waiter's style | 274 (43%)
| | Two-winged puller | 75 (11%)
| | Two-prong type | 43 (6%)
| | Pocket ScrewPull | 91 (14%)
| | Hand lever | 88 (13%)
| | Table-mounted | 14 (2%)
| | Air injector | 14 (2%)
| | Other (Fill-in) | 26 (4%)
| | None | 2 (0%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- "Rabbit" (1 votes)
- A larger, carved wood ScrewPull (1 votes)
- articulated waiter's style (1 votes)
- Cruise Ship :~) (1 votes)
- double hinged pull-tap (waiter's style) (1 votes)
- double hinged waiter Style, with teflon worm (1 votes)
- Drywall screw and a pair of pliers (1 votes)
- Modified Waiter's Style with hinged lever (1 votes)
- Monica Lewinsky (1 votes)
- my husband (or any other willing & able-handed male) (1 votes)
- Napoleon style - because the top resembles his hat! (1 votes)
- Non wing puller (1 votes)
- Pull-tap (1 votes)
- Pulltaps waiter's corkscreww (1 votes)
- Rabbit (1 votes)
- Screw Pull (1 votes)
- ScrewPull with the horizontal attachment to rotate the screw (1 votes)
- Single Spindle (Monopol) (1 votes)
- the screw is "turned" down into the bottle (1 votes)
- Trudeau (1 votes)
- tupperware corkscrew (1 votes)
- VacuVin (1 votes)
- Wing Nut (screw down as with two-winged puller, then extract cork by turning wing nut.) (1 votes)
- Zyliss (2 votes)
- zyliss cork screw (1 votes)
Oct. 26, 2001
Total Votes: 634 What is your least favorite wine?
| Amarone | 4 (0%)
| | Beaujolais | 20 (3%)
| | Chardonnay | 58 (9%)
| | Gewurztraminer | 23 (3%)
| | French hybrids | 10 (1%)
| | Icewine | 15 (2%)
| | Labrusca | 24 (3%)
| | Lambrusco | 24 (3%)
| | Madeira | 7 (1%)
| | Merlot | 19 (2%)
| | Port | 11 (1%)
| | Primitivo | 1 (0%)
| | Retsina | 65 (10%)
| | Riesling | 9 (1%)
| | Sauvignon Blanc | 13 (2%)
| | Semillon | 4 (0%)
| | Sherry | 41 (6%)
| | Viognier | 3 (0%)
| | White Zinfandel | 161 (25%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 92 (14%)
| | None: I like 'em all!! | 30 (4%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- 1988 silver oak "bonnys" (1 votes)
- American wine (1 votes)
- any pink wine (1 votes)
- Any whites wine, excluding Champagne, which is a sparkling white wine. (1 votes)
- Any wine that's corked. (1 votes)
- Anything French (1 votes)
- anything from chile (1 votes)
- Anything over-oaked (1 votes)
- Anything that is primarily pinot noir. (1 votes)
- Arbor Mist (1 votes)
- Argentine Torrontes (1 votes)
- Aussie Shiraz (1 votes)
- Australian Cab Sav (1 votes)
- Australian Semillon (1 votes)
- australian shiraz (1 votes)
- Australian Shiraz - as close to crap as you can get! (1 votes)
- baby duck : ~) (1 votes)
- Banyuls (1 votes)
- Barbera (3 votes)
- Barrel wine (i.e. wine whose variety is obscured by its barrel) (1 votes)
- Blauer Portugieser (1 votes)
- Bordeaux (1 votes)
- cabernet (2 votes)
- Cabernet Sauvignon (2 votes)
- Califonia Chardonnay (1 votes)
- California Cabs - terrible QPR & bad w/ food (1 votes)
- CALIFORNIA Chardonnay (2 votes)
- Cashew Fruit Wine from Belize (1 votes)
- champagne (1 votes)
- Champagne and other white sparklers, but I love sparkling shiraz (1 votes)
- cheap tasting (1 votes)
- chenin blanc (1 votes)
- Chianti (1 votes)
- D'Alba (1 votes)
- dolcetto (1 votes)
- Domestic bulk process "champagne" (1 votes)
- Gavi-there's no there there! (1 votes)
- Grumer Veltliner (1 votes)
- Leflaive white Burgundy. Don't buy it, folks. It's repulsive! Cor hates it, too! (1 votes)
- Liebfraumilch (2 votes)
- madiran (2 votes)
- Muscadine ('Scuppernog') (1 votes)
- muscat (1 votes)
- new world (1 votes)
- No particular Variety, but late picked/Botrytis Wines are a definite "No" for me. (1 votes)
- Nouveau Beaujolais (1 votes)
- Pinot (1 votes)
- pinot grigio (2 votes)
- Pinot Noir (2 votes)
- Pinotage (6 votes)
- Red Burgundy. Believe it, or not. (1 votes)
- red zinfandel (1 votes)
- Reichensteiner (1 votes)
- Rkatsiteli (1 votes)
- Roija (1 votes)
- shiraz (1 votes)
- South Arican wines as a general region (1 votes)
- spanish red wine (1 votes)
- sticky kosher corcorde-based wines. (1 votes)
- sweet fake champagnes like baby duck yuuucchh!! (1 votes)
- Sylvaner and Oaked Chardonnay (1 votes)
- Syrah (2 votes)
- Turkish reds....just ghastly (1 votes)
- V. rotundifolia (1 votes)
- Vin Jaune (Bile in a bucket) (1 votes)
- vinho verde (may as well drink Pellegrino) (1 votes)
- White Bordeaux (1 votes)
- White stickies (1 votes)
- Wine Coolers (1 votes)
- Wine in a box. (1 votes)
- Yuch (1 votes)
- Zinfandel (5 votes)
- Zinfandel (red and white) (1 votes)
Oct. 12, 2001
Total Votes: 583 What is the vintage of the oldest wine you own?
| 1990s | 136 (23%)
| | 1980s | 152 (26%)
| | 1970s | 104 (17%)
| | 1960s | 80 (13%)
| | 1950s | 40 (6%)
| | 1940s | 16 (2%)
| | 1930s | 7 (1%)
| | 1920s | 11 (1%)
| | 1910s | 6 (1%)
| | 1900s | 11 (1%)
| | pre-1900 | 20 (3%)
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Total Votes: 175 Do you take wine notes when dining with non-wine friends?
| Never | 73 (41%)
| | Seldom | 38 (21%)
| | Sometimes | 37 (21%)
| | Frequently | 17 (9%)
| | Always | 10 (5%)
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Total Votes: 925 "First-growth" Vintage Ports?
| Churchill | 12 (1%)
| | Cockburn | 16 (1%)
| | Croft | 14 (1%)
| | Dow | 139 (15%)
| | Ferreira | 10 (1%)
| | Fonseca | 158 (17%)
| | Gould Campbell | 1 (0%)
| | Graham | 116 (12%)
| | Martinez | 4 (0%)
| | Niepoort | 42 (4%)
| | Offley Forrester | 1 (0%)
| | Quinta do Crasto | 11 (1%)
| | Quinta do Noval | 113 (12%)
| | Ramos-Pinto | 9 (0%)
| | Sandeman | 17 (1%)
| | Smith Woodhouse | 6 (0%)
| | Taylor, Fladgate (Taylor's) | 172 (18%)
| | Warre | 84 (9%)
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Total Votes: 358 How many wine glasses have you broken in the past year?
| 0 (Glass) | 44 (12%)
| | 1-2 | 145 (40%)
| | 3-4 | 88 (24%)
| | 5-6 | 41 (11%)
| | 7-8 | 16 (4%)
| | 9-10 | 6 (1%)
| | 11-12 | 7 (1%)
| | 13 or more | 8 (2%)
| | Don't know | 1 (0%)
| | Don't care | 2 (0%)
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Total Votes: 328 Do serious wine enthusiasts have fewer kids?
| serious, no children | 109 (33%)
| | serious, 1 child | 28 (8%)
| | serious, 2 children | 70 (21%)
| | serious, 3 children or more | 54 (16%)
| | casual, no children | 27 (8%)
| | casual, 1 child | 8 (2%)
| | casual, 2 children | 24 (7%)
| | casual, 3 children or more | 8 (2%)
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Total Votes: 249 Serving wine with food
| 95% or more | 79 (31%)
| | 85-94% | 57 (22%)
| | 75-84% | 40 (16%)
| | 65-74% | 20 (8%)
| | 55-64% | 17 (6%)
| | 45-54% | 15 (6%)
| | 35-44% | 6 (2%)
| | 25-34% | 7 (2%)
| | 15-24% | 3 (1%)
| | 5-14% | 3 (1%)
| | under 5% | 2 (0%)
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Total Votes: 294 Do you let wines breathe?
| I don't let wines breathe | 66 (22%)
| | Immature reds only | 98 (33%)
| | All immature wines | 30 (10%)
| | Specific wine types (fill-in) | 28 (9%)
| | All reds | 61 (20%)
| | All wines | 11 (3%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- all age-worthy reds (1 votes)
- All Bordeaux, young tannic Cal Cabs and Italians (1 votes)
- Almost all wines. That's why I drink an entire bottle in one during a 4 hour span. (1 votes)
- Barolo and Barbaresco (1 votes)
- Bordeaux and Bordeaux style (1 votes)
- Bordeaux older than 2 years (1 votes)
- Bordeaux, Burgundy, Rhone, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Tuscan, Barbaresco, Barolo, Amarone (1 votes)
- cabs and bordeaux (1 votes)
- clarets, rhone region - that have benefited from 2 years aging + (1 votes)
- full bodied reds (1 votes)
- Full bodied, usually my more expesive reds that I have cellared for aging. (1 votes)
- I taste first! (1 votes)
- I taste it first and decide. (1 votes)
- immature ageworthy reds (1 votes)
- immature reds plus "big" reds whose bouquet would benefit from a little airing (1 votes)
- immature wines in general, but prefer decanting to just pulling the cork (1 votes)
- mature reds (1 votes)
- mature riesling (1 votes)
- Merlots and Cabs (1 votes)
- Most N. Italian Piedmont especially (1 votes)
- most of the "super toscans" over 5-6 years old (1 votes)
- older, more mature reds (1 votes)
- Only Vintage Reds (1 votes)
- Sometimes but only in the glass...Large glasses are as good as decanters for this. (1 votes)
- tannic reds (1 votes)
- The reds I generally let "breathe" while I nurture then in the glass. (1 votes)
- Wines that are too acidic on first sip (1 votes)
- Yes, of course immature reds, but also specific varietals: e.g., cabernet franc and rhone reds (1 votes)
Total Votes: 590 Does your partner share your passion for wine?
| Fully shares my folly | 80 (13%)
| | Included cellar inventory in pre-nuptial agreement | 3 (0%)
| | Outperforms me in blind tastings | 31 (5%)
| | Has a remarkable palate and knows it | 32 (5%)
| | Has a remarkable palate but pretends ignorance | 37 (6%)
| | Likes wine but isn't as geeky about it as I am | 182 (30%)
| | Can't tell red from white | 7 (1%)
| | Likes wine but doesn't like the amount I spend on it | 82 (13%)
| | Justifies expenditures by comparing them to my wine budget | 36 (6%)
| | Considers my wine a rival for his/her affection | 20 (3%)
| | Considers my wine merchant a rival for his/her affection | 10 (1%)
| | Hates the stuff and always will | 14 (2%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 56 (9%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- allergic to wine (1 votes)
- Beer, on the other hand, is *his* passion (1 votes)
- Dislikes any alcohol, but enjoys it vicariously through others!!!! (1 votes)
- Dislikes but is willing to try certain food and wine pairings (1 votes)
- does not drink (1 votes)
- Does not drink at all. (1 votes)
- doesn't care much for wine (1 votes)
- Doesn't drink but loves to make fun of my wining (1 votes)
- doesn't like the amount I spend on wine but always helps me finish the bottle (1 votes)
- Doesn't really care for it but will drink a glass with me. (1 votes)
- Doesn't understand the passion for wine and the history of wine making countries(Spain, Italy, etc.. (1 votes)
- Dont have one :( (1 votes)
- Drinks a little bubbly and non oaked chardonnay. (1 votes)
- enjoys drinking wine, and attending regular tastings ; doesn't enjoy reading about it .. (1 votes)
- enjoys the time together looking for it (1 votes)
- Feels WE Deserve It ...It's our olny indulgence (1 votes)
- Has a rare sip of white, but really doesn't drink or appreciate wine. (1 votes)
- Has WAY more expensive tastes than I do! (1 votes)
- He likes smooth dry reds, I like sweet white, but switch when necessary (1 votes)
- Is a wine salesperson (1 votes)
- Isn't comfortable having a glass a day and doesn't appreciate the weight gain I experience (1 votes)
- just dipping her toe in the water (1 votes)
- likes me in direct positive proportion to the quality of the wine I serve her (1 votes)
- Likes wine OK, but could live without it (1 votes)
- Likes wine, allergic and can't drink (1 votes)
- Little experience with wine but is interested in learning (1 votes)
- Loves red but has an allergy that restricts her drinking to whites and occasional sips of red (1 votes)
- loves to drink it but refuses to help select a btl (1 votes)
- My cat doesn't care for it. (1 votes)
- my wife only likes ONE wine--period. (1 votes)
- no current partner (1 votes)
- No partner, so I drink for two. (1 votes)
- Not a fan of wine, but supports my interest (1 votes)
- Not a wine fan but I'm working on it (1 votes)
- Only shares the ones with Residual sugar over 10% (1 votes)
- Other than wine that has obviously turned, my wife never met a wine she doesn't like! (1 votes)
- prefers jug white, but likes to taste anything (1 votes)
- Roommate (dog) hopelessly indifferent to wine (1 votes)
- she drinks half a glass, I drink the balance of a bottle!! (1 votes)
- She likes California chard/ whites - I prefer Zin/ reds (1 votes)
- She only likes one type of wine (1 votes)
- She understands me. (1 votes)
- taken many wine appreciation courses with me and still doesn't know sauv. blanc is a white wine grap (1 votes)
- thinks Wine Lovers Page is the BEST on the net (1 votes)
- Though she claims total novice status, she can tell when she's tasting a wine we've had before. (1 votes)
- tolerates is more like it (1 votes)
- tolerates it (1 votes)
- used to like chablis but now does not drink. (1 votes)
- we are both just starting to appreciate it together (1 votes)
- we feed each other's passion for wine...though he claims I am a wine snob!!! (1 votes)
- We meeting wine tasting, the perfect drinking partner (1 votes)
- Will drink whatever I put in front of him -- it all tastes the same to him anyway... (1 votes)
- Wine is just OK, but loves the trips (1 votes)
- Wish I had a partner to find out how they are about wine. (1 votes)
- wishes he was French to understand wine better :) (1 votes)
- would rather have a beer than a beaujolais!!! (1 votes)
Total Votes: 167 Wine lover's epiphany
| At home | 39 (23%)
| | Dining in a restaurant | 25 (14%)
| | Dinner at a friend's | 13 (7%)
| | In a wine store | 9 (5%)
| | Wine tasting event | 14 (8%)
| | Wine appreciation course | 5 (2%)
| | Visiting a winery | 22 (13%)
| | I grew up with wine | 12 (7%)
| | It hasn't occurred yet | 1 (0%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 27 (16%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- ? Can't remember such an occassion. Was probably already drunk! (1 votes)
- A college "Wine Tasting" with friends, we were trying to be sophisticated! (1 votes)
- a friend "introduced" me to "good" wine- a bottle of piesporter- (1 votes)
- a wine immersion seminar for work. (1 votes)
- After I joined a wine tasting club (1 votes)
- at a friend's party (1 votes)
- At a winemakers dinner where each course was matched with a wine. (1 votes)
- at culinary school (1 votes)
- At my parents' house (1 votes)
- At work waiting tables (1 votes)
- business trip (1 votes)
- hanging around a glass of '70 Leoville las Cases (1 votes)
- Having a broiled salmon topped off ont he grill with new potaote, Robert Mondavi Coastal Merlot,, (1 votes)
- hotel room (1 votes)
- Just a sparkle in my father's eye (1 votes)
- Living in Burgundy during college (1 votes)
- No epiphany - it's an insidious disease! (1 votes)
- not in a sudden event (1 votes)
- Online (1 votes)
- Party I was hosting (1 votes)
- reading a wine book (1 votes)
- Trader Joe's, when the all those '70 petit chateaux arrived (1 votes)
- When I found the WLDG (1 votes)
- Why in the world would I love a beverage, I enjoy wine but love it?! (1 votes)
- Wine industry class in business school (1 votes)
- working in a restaurant (1 votes)
- Working in a restaurant at an early age, fell in love with wines from Burgundy (1 votes)
Total Votes: 596 How many of the wines you taste are "corked"?
| More than 1 of every 10 bottles | 28 (4%)
| | About 1 in every 10 bottles (10%) | 45 (7%)
| | About 1 in 20 bottles (5%) | 121 (20%)
| | About 1 in 30 bottles (3%) | 112 (18%)
| | Less than 1 in 30 bottles | 222 (37%)
| | I never tasted a corked wine | 52 (8%)
| | I don't know how to detect cork taint | 16 (2%)
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Total Votes: 374 Top Chardonnay or Riesling region
| White Burgundy | 78 (20%)
| | Other French Chardonnay | 3 (0%)
| | U.S. Chardonnay | 26 (6%)
| | Australian Chardonnay | 12 (3%)
| | New Zealand Chardonnay | 4 (1%)
| | Italian Chardonnay | 1 (0%)
| | Other Chardonnay | 2 (0%)
| | Alsatian Riesling | 56 (14%)
| | German Riesling | 127 (33%)
| | Italian Riesling | 1 (0%)
| | Washington State Riesling | 15 (4%)
| | Finger Lakes Riesling | 10 (2%)
| | Other U.S. Riesling | 6 (1%)
| | Austrian Riesling | 10 (2%)
| | Australian Riesling | 12 (3%)
| | New Zealand Riesling | 6 (1%)
| | Other Riesling | 5 (1%)
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Total Votes: 161 Here's how I update my cellar records
| Immediately after any change. | 56 (34%)
| | Weekly on a regular schedule. | 6 (3%)
| | After shopping trips but not individual bottles. | 7 (4%)
| | Procrastinate for a while, then catch up. | 40 (24%)
| | Procrastinate, never catch up. | 17 (10%)
| | It's all in my head. | 13 (8%)
| | I don't keep cellar records. | 9 (5%)
| | I don't have a wine collection. | 2 (1%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 11 (6%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- 75% Immediately, 25% Procrastinate, then catch up. (1 votes)
- contemporaneously by hand, update database report every 4-6 months. (1 votes)
- I make immediate changes using pen on a print-out, but record the changes on computer irregularly (1 votes)
- I retain Vinoté neck tags from opened bottles for soberly recording later. (1 votes)
- It's "mostly" in my head (1 votes)
- lack of records make it harder for spouse to track purchases (1 votes)
- Make a note on the print-out then update the computer database about once a month. (1 votes)
- Partially in my head. For reference I save the receipts which identify the bottles purchased. (1 votes)
- procrastinate, intending to catch up, but still procrastinating... (1 votes)
- within a day or two.... (1 votes)
- Years ago I took a date down to my cellar and played some records, but to no avail...sigh... (1 votes)
Total Votes: 228 Do you keep a record of what's in your cellar?
| Yes - commercial wine software program. | 35 (15%)
| | Yes - home-grown software. | 14 (6%)
| | Yes - standard spreadsheet program. | 49 (21%)
| | Yes - standard database program. | 28 (12%)
| | Yes - notes on paper, not computerized. | 33 (14%)
| | No - commercial wine-storage facility keeps my records. | 1 (0%)
| | No - but I wish I did. | 26 (11%)
| | No - and I don't care. | 12 (5%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 30 (13%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- an inventory of the wines in each wooden box (1 votes)
- Built my own MS Access Database (1 votes)
- Connercial Storage - Yes (Excel); Home wine - No (1 votes)
- Envelope of receipts, crossed off when gone (1 votes)
- Hugh Johnsons Cellar Book (1 votes)
- I did, until I amassed too much wine (1 votes)
- in my head (2 votes)
- it's all up here (tapping head) (1 votes)
- Just a standard text file on my computer. (1 votes)
- Keep printed tasting notes of some of my wines. (1 votes)
- loose leaf cellar notebook (1 votes)
- No - I do care but like suprises (1 votes)
- No but I know mostly what's there (20 ish cases) (1 votes)
- No--I enjoy the hands-on selection process (1 votes)
- No. I still think I can manage without a record, but I'm starting to have some doubts (1 votes)
- Only when it gets beyond 100 bottles, which is rare. (1 votes)
- Spradsheet. I also have Parker's software but it is too cumbersonme (1 votes)
- Text file (1 votes)
- Use database program for long-term agers only; 75% or more are for daily consumption, so not entered (1 votes)
- winekeep.com (1 votes)
- winespectator.com [ersonal wine list (1 votes)
- Word 97 documents (1 votes)
- Word Perfect list (1 votes)
- Yes - my rapidly-eroding memory (1 votes)
- Yes - web-based www.bottlecount.com (1 votes)
- Yes -- on computer, using word processing software (1 votes)
- Yes there is the new web-based WineKeep.com (1 votes)
- Yes, I memorize every wine I buy. I have about 9 bottles now. (1 votes)
- Yes, Parker's Software, but very behind (1 votes)
Total Votes: 185 How helpful is your wine shop?
| Poor | 6 (3%)
| | Limited | 11 (5%)
| | Some | 22 (11%)
| | Good | 59 (31%)
| | Excellent | 87 (47%)
|
Here are the fill-in votes:
- 5 Wine Cellar youngstown, Ohio (1 votes)
- 36th street and 3rd avenue (1 votes)
- 4, LCBO Churchill Plaza, SSMarie, ON, Canada (1 votes)
- 5 (1 votes)
- All Star Wine & Spirits, Latham, NY (1 votes)
- Ashe's Wines and Spirits Knoxville, TN (1 votes)
- Bannockburn Cellars, Geelong Australia (1 votes)
- Bassin's Macarthur's Wine and Liquors (1 votes)
- Bassin's/MacArthur Beverages (1 votes)
- Berbiglia (1 votes)
- Binny's in Naperville (JOE) (1 votes)
- Brookline Liquor Mart (1 votes)
- Calvert Woodley, Washington, DC (1 votes)
- classic wine co. (1 votes)
- classic wine co., B`ham, Al. (1 votes)
- cloverleaf fine wine and spirits, southfield,MI (1 votes)
- Coit Liquors, San Francisco, California (1 votes)
- Colio Estates Wine Boutique Windsor ont. (1 votes)
- Corti Brothers, Sacramento, CA (1 votes)
- Crown Wine and Sprits Coral Gables (1 votes)
- Daily Planet Wine & Gourmet (1 votes)
- Dana Decker's Wine Shoppe,Fayetteville,NY (1 votes)
- Decanter Fine Wines, Columbia, MD (1 votes)
- Discount Liquor, (Milwaukee, WI) (1 votes)
- Downer WIne & Spirits, Milwaukee WI - Excellent (1 votes)
- E & R Wines/Portland, OR (1 votes)
- Eastman Road Party Store Midland, Michgan (1 votes)
- Edgemont Village Wines, North Vancouver, BC (1 votes)
- Ellwood Thompson's Natural Market (1 votes)
- Ellwood Thompson's Natural Market, Richmond, VA (1 votes)
- Essex Green Fine Wine, West Orange, NJ (1 votes)
- excellent (1 votes)
- First Glass Wines and Spirits, Takapuna, New Zealand (1 votes)
- FOSTER LIQUOR WICHITA KS. (1 votes)
- FountainHead Wines, Norwalk, CT (1 votes)
- GOLD STANDARD (1 votes)
- GOLD STANDARD/RIVER GROVE IL (1 votes)
- Gouden Ton, Rotterdam, Holland (1 votes)
- Highlands Wine and Cheese Shop (828) 526-5210 (1 votes)
- Irondequoit Plaza Discount Wine and Liquor Store (1 votes)
- J. Emerson's in Richmond, VA (1 votes)
- J. Webb Wine Merchant Ltd. Calgary, Alberta, Canada (1 votes)
- K & L Wines (1 votes)
- Kermit Lynch - Berkeley, CA (1 votes)
- l'Or du Vin, Paris, France (1 votes)
- L.A. Wine Company (1 votes)
- La Vigneronne, London, England (2 votes)
- LCBO Vintages (2 votes)
- Liquor Barn in Lexington, Ky (1 votes)
- Los Olivos Wine and Spirits Emporium (1 votes)
- Lukas Liquors, Greenwood Village, CO (1 votes)
- MAB liquors; east meadow, L.I., ny (1 votes)
- MacArthur Beverages (1 votes)
- MacArthur Beverages Washington, DC (1 votes)
- MacArthurs, Washington DC (1 votes)
- Market Wine Company; Dayton, OH (1 votes)
- Martin's Wine Cellar, New Orleans, Louisiana (1 votes)
- Marty's in Newton, MA (1 votes)
- McArthur Liquor, Washington DC (1 votes)
- McCarthy & Schearing, Seattle, Queen Anne (1 votes)
- McCarthy & Schiering (Seattle) (1 votes)
- Merchant's Package - Marietta, Georgia (1 votes)
- Meridian Wine & Spirits - Lafayette, CO (2 votes)
- Michael Charles, Boardman, OH (1 votes)
- Mill Hill Wines, London NW7 England (1 votes)
- Morris Miller Liquors, Washington, D.C. (1 votes)
- Nehring's Sendiks on Oakland/Milwaukee, WI (1 votes)
- Ni Fen Epicurean, Shelby, NC (1 votes)
- Oaken Keg, Fairbanks Alaska (1 votes)
- Odd Bin's Bottle Shop, New Haven, CT (1 votes)
- Old Mill Wine and Spirits, New Albany (1 votes)
- Old Town Liquors, Louisville, KY (1 votes)
- Party Source, Bellevue, KY (1 votes)
- Party Source, Louisville, KY (1 votes)
- Pet Wines (1 votes)
- Pike and Western/Seattle (1 votes)
- PLCB, N. Atherton St., State College, PA (1 votes)
- Portland Wine Merchants Portland, Oregon (4) (1 votes)
- Premier Cru, CA (1 votes)
- Premier Liquor, Buffalo (1 votes)
- Red Coleman's on Greenville, Dallas (1 votes)
- Regional WInes , Wellington , New Zealand (1 votes)
- Rotunda Wines and Liquors, Baltimore (1 votes)
- Roy's Liquors and Boozeous Saloon, Fort Pierce, Florida 34950 (1 votes)
- Rye Brook Wine & Liquor Rye Brook, NY, (1 votes)
- Sam's Chicago (2 votes)
- San Diego Wine Company (1 votes)
- SAQ (Quebec) (1 votes)
- schneider's of capitol hill (3 votes)
- Several in the Greater Boston area (1 votes)
- Sigel's in Addison, Texas (1 votes)
- Sigel's Liquor Store #1 (1 votes)
- Sigels #5 in Addison (1 votes)
- Sonoma Wine Exchange (1 votes)
- STATE LINE LIQUOR, ELKTON, MD (1 votes)
- Stoney's Dallas, Texas (1 votes)
- Surdyk's - Mpls, MN (1 votes)
- Surdyk's Liquor, Minneapolis MN (1 votes)
- Surdyk's, Minneapolis, MN (1 votes)
- Table and Vine (1 votes)
- Taorello's (1 votes)
- The Jug Shop (San Francisco, CA) (1 votes)
- The SF Wine Trading Co., San Francisco, CA (1 votes)
- The Spirit Shop, Norman, OK (1 votes)
- The Wine & Cheese Cask, Somerville, MA (1 votes)
- The Wine and Cheese Place, St. Louis, MO (1 votes)
- The Wine Cellar, Nashua, NH (1 votes)
- The Wine Club - San Francisco (1 votes)
- The Wine Club - Santa Ana, CA (1 votes)
- The Wine Club, San Francisco (1 votes)
- The Wine Exchange, Orange, CA (1 votes)
- The Wine Library, Millburn, NJ (1 votes)
- The Winesellars, Danville, CA (1 votes)
- the Wineshop at the Commonwealth Club, Richmond, VA (1 votes)
- Thoroughbred Shop - 2005 Versailles Road - Lexington, Ketukcy (1 votes)
- Topline Wine and Spirits, Glendale, CA (1 votes)
- Total Beverage (1 votes)
- TROTTA'S FINE WINE & SPIRITS (1 votes)
- Utah State Wine Store, SLC, UT (1 votes)
- Village Corner; Ann Arbor, MI (1 votes)
- Vino Fino, Christchurch, New Zealand (1 votes)
- Wally's, West Los Angeles (1 votes)
- Wells Liquor (Baltimore) (1 votes)
- West Point Market, Akron, OH (1 votes)
- Wiine & Cheese Emporium, Kinston, NC, US (1 votes)
- Wine and Cheese Shop, Somerville MA (1 votes)
- Wine Exchange/ Orange, Ca (1 votes)
- Wine Exchange/Orange, CA (1 votes)
- Wine Ventures, Tenafly, NJ (1 votes)
- Wine Watch, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (1 votes)
- World Market. Kalamazoo Michigan (1 votes)
- Young's Wine & Liquor, Manhassett, NY (1 votes)
Total Votes: 623 Average amount spent for a bottle of wine?
| Under $5 | 5 (0%)
| | $5-$10 | 161 (25%)
| | $10-$15 | 257 (41%)
| | $15-$20 | 106 (17%)
| | $20-$25 | 35 (5%)
| | $25-$30 | 27 (4%)
| | $30-$40 | 9 (1%)
| | $40-$50 | 11 (1%)
| | More than $50 | 12 (1%)
|
Total Votes: 195 Best sparkler outside of Champagne?
| Austria | 2 (1%)
| | Germany | 8 (4%)
| | Italy | 34 (17%)
| | Other France | 24 (12%)
| | Spain | 23 (11%)
| | California | 48 (24%)
| | Oregon | 5 (2%)
| | Australia | 10 (5%)
| | New Zealand | 11 (5%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 26 (13%)
| | None | 4 (2%)
|
Here are the fill-in votes:
- Alsace (1 votes)
- Anderson Valley, Mendocino County, Calif. (1 votes)
- Argentina (2 votes)
- Argentina (Dom Chandon) (1 votes)
- Burkina Faso (But only the brut, the rest is just swill) (1 votes)
- Cava (yes, I know it is Spain, but just the name of the country sounds too inspecific) (1 votes)
- Certain French owned or partnered wineries in Napa, CA area (Domaine Chandon, Taittinger, etc.) (1 votes)
- England (2 votes)
- England ( Nyetimber Blanc de Blancs 1993 ) (1 votes)
- Israel (1 votes)
- Loire (1 votes)
- Loire - Huet & Baumard specifically (1 votes)
- Moldova (1 votes)
- New Mexico (2 votes)
- New Mexico---Gruet. Great for $ (1 votes)
- New Mexico: Gruet Brut from $10-13. Great value! (1 votes)
- New Mexico: Gruet, Brut and Demi Sec, Great Value (1 votes)
- New York State (1 votes)
- New York's Finger Lakes region (Lamoreaux Landing, Hermann J. Wiemer, Glenora especially) (1 votes)
- South Africa - Methode Cap Classique (1 votes)
- Sparkling Vouvray (1 votes)
- trentino, ferrari (1 votes)
- Washington -- Dom. Ste. Michelle (1 votes)
Total Votes: 152 Worldwide vintage of the century?
| 1900 | 1 (0%)
| | 1921 | 1 (0%)
| | 1945 | 13 (8%)
| | 1947 | 5 (3%)
| | 1959 | 8 (5%)
| | 1976 | 1 (0%)
| | 1978 | 6 (3%)
| | 1982 | 3 (1%)
| | 1985 | 8 (5%)
| | 1988 | 5 (3%)
| | 1990 | 66 (43%)
| | 1994 | 6 (3%)
| | 1997 | 14 (9%)
| | Other (explain) | 13 (8%)
| | None | 2 (1%)
|
Here are the fill-in votes:
- 1928 because it was a superb year for Bordeaux (St. Emillion in particular) (1 votes)
- 1929--Great Burgundy and Bordeaux (2 votes)
- 1961 (2 votes)
- 1961 (why was that not included?) (1 votes)
- 1961 in Bordeaux. Have tasted Cheval Blanc, Mouton and Margaux, all great (1 votes)
- 1961 Superb bordeaux. (1 votes)
- 1963 - My year of birth (1 votes)
- 1964 for Moselle wines, my personal favorite (1 votes)
- 1973 - fabulous in Chianti (1 votes)
- 1995, Beautiful in almost all regions (1 votes)
- How could you have omitted the wonderful 1928 vintage in Bordeaux? Probably my all time fave. (1 votes)
Total Votes: 264 How adventurous is your wine buying?
| 1 - Totally cautious | 2 (0%)
| | 2 | 4 (1%)
| | 3 | 11 (4%)
| | 4 | 17 (6%)
| | 5 - Middle of the road | 23 (8%)
| | 6 | 32 (12%)
| | 7 | 59 (22%)
| | 8 | 42 (15%)
| | 9 | 28 (10%)
| | 10 - Totally adventurous | 46 (17%)
|
Total Votes: 357 Temperature for serving red wine?
| Below 54F (12C) | 7 (1%)
| | 55-57F (12.5-14C) | 8 (2%)
| | 58-60F (14-15.5C) | 25 (7%)
| | 61-63F (16-17C) | 56 (15%)
| | 64-66F (18-19C) | 83 (23%)
| | 67-69F (19.5-20.5C) | 40 (11%)
| | 70-72F (21-22C) | 19 (5%)
| | Over 73F (23C) | 5 (1%)
| | Varies depending on the specific wine | 55 (15%)
| | Ambient temperature | 47 (13%)
| | Don't know | 6 (1%)
| | Don't care | 6 (1%)
|
Total Votes: 251 Here's how I record my wine-tasting notes:
| Use a commercial or shareware computer program | 10 (3%)
| | Use my own computer program/spreadsheet/database | 21 (8%)
| | Use standard forms like AWS, UC Davis, Wine Lovers' Page | 12 (4%)
| | Record free-form notes on computer | 20 (7%)
| | Take free-form notes on paper | 77 (30%)
| | Take notes on palm computer/PDA | 5 (1%)
| | Dictate notes to tape recorder | 1 (0%)
| | Keep all my notes in computer files | 21 (8%)
| | Keep all my notes in hard-copy files | 20 (7%)
| | Post notes on online forums | 24 (9%)
| | Keep mental notes only | 16 (6%)
| | I don't take tasting notes | 8 (3%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 16 (6%)
|
Here are the fill-in votes:
- A three ring binder, Notes from Opimian Wine Society (1 votes)
- Add my hard copy to a template on my hard drive (1 votes)
- binder (wine club)&labels (other purchases-not from wine clubs) (1 votes)
- either etch in stone tablet or if the wine is good enough, spray paint the notes on my walls (1 votes)
- Excpet when judging, I only write down the name of the wines and write notes directly on WLDG later (1 votes)
- Keep all my notes on paper and type into computer when I get around to it (1 votes)
- Keep labels and notes in leather bound book. (1 votes)
- Keep some mental notes for the same wine of a different year that I drink frequently (1 votes)
- mental notes brought to mind by vague ideas on paper (1 votes)
- notebook with standard forms (1 votes)
- On Wine Spectator database (1 votes)
- Random scribblings that I later cannot decipher (1 votes)
- take notes on only very good ones (1 votes)
- use a format learned from reading and experience when taking notes (1 votes)
- When ever I attend a wine tasting, the host has pre-printed a sheet with all the selections on it . (1 votes)
- Wine Tasting Notes Book (1 votes)
Total Votes: 232 I would like to live in the wine region of:
| Alsace | 7 (3%)
| | Bordeaux | 9 (3%)
| | Burgundy | 9 (3%)
| | Loire | 5 (2%)
| | Rhone | 17 (7%)
| | Rhine | 3 (1%)
| | Mosel | 2 (0%)
| | Austria | 4 (1%)
| | Piedmont/Northern Italy | 13 (5%)
| | Tuscany | 40 (17%)
| | Rioja/Ribera del Duero | 2 (0%)
| | Portugal | 2 (0%)
| | South Australia | 10 (4%)
| | New Zealand | 9 (3%)
| | South Africa | 1 (0%)
| | Chile/Argentina | 2 (0%)
| | Napa/Sonoma | 50 (21%)
| | Other California | 7 (3%)
| | Pacific Northwest | 6 (2%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 34 (14%)
|
Here are the fill-in votes:
- Bandol (1 votes)
- Beaujolias:Chiroubles (1 votes)
- Central Otago, New Zealand (1 votes)
- Collioure (1 votes)
- coteau d'Aix en Provence (1 votes)
- Dealurile Bujorului /Romania (1 votes)
- Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma (1 votes)
- Finger Lakes (1 votes)
- Franconia (1 votes)
- Languedoc (1 votes)
- long island (1 votes)
- madeira island (1 votes)
- Margaret River (2 votes)
- Nelson, New Zealand (1 votes)
- New Jersey (2 votes)
- Old Mission, Old Mission Peninsula: I'm living it ! (1 votes)
- Ontario, Canada! (Maybe a 2nd place in B.C. too :) (1 votes)
- Palette (1 votes)
- palisades colorado (1 votes)
- Provence (7 votes)
- Provence (Côtes du Luberon or Côtes du Ventoux) (1 votes)
- Roswell, GA (1 votes)
- San Louis Obispo County (1 votes)
- Tasmania (1 votes)
- Upstate New York (1 votes)
- Yarra Valley - Australia (1 votes)
Total Votes: 230 My tasting notes
| I take notes on all the wines I taste | 28 (12%)
| | I take notes on most of the wines I taste | 59 (25%)
| | I take notes on more than half the wines I taste | 23 (10%)
| | I take notes only on wines of special interest | 35 (15%)
| | I take notes only on wines in my cellar, so I can track their evolution | 14 (6%)
| | I keep mental notes but don't write them down | 31 (13%)
| | I don't take tasting notes | 19 (8%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 21 (9%)
|
Here are the fill-in votes:
- At formal tastings or special events only (1 votes)
- I am struggling to take notes more often... (1 votes)
- I do when I remember (1 votes)
- I don't, but I wish that I did!!! How about a lesson? (1 votes)
- I have you to take notes for me! (1 votes)
- I note varietal character;ripeness;concentration&cosmetic tampering (1 votes)
- I only TN wines drunk for pleasure, as opposed to work (1 votes)
- I take notes at wine tastings, but don'k keep them (1 votes)
- I take notes during blind tastings of multiple wines. (1 votes)
- I take notes on all the wines I taste but I never read them :) (1 votes)
- I take notes on some of the wines in my cellar, I'm trying hard to take notes on them all! (1 votes)
- I take notes on wine in my cellar, so I'll know whether I want to buy that same bottle again or not. (1 votes)
- I take notes on wines I really like and want to buy later (1 votes)
- I take notes only at formal tastings (1 votes)
- I take notes when I'm evaluating a wine, not when drinking at home, friends' or in a restaurant. (1 votes)
- I take notes when tasting new releases that I may be interested in purchasing. (1 votes)
- I take notes when the food/wine match was especially good. (1 votes)
- I write down only names; I remember the best, and correctly classify the rest as "forgettable" (1 votes)
- Only in organized, sit down (usually trade) tastings. (1 votes)
- SPECIAL INTEREST & WINES IN MY CELLAR (1 votes)
- took notes in the past but not now, (1 votes)
Total Votes: 149 Vintage charts: Useful or useless?
| 10. I base my wine buying entirely on vintage charts | 1 (0%)
| | 9. Vintage charts are very important | 19 (12%)
| | 8. Very important if the wine region or producer is unfamiliar | 15 (10%)
| | 7. Somewhat important | 29 (19%)
| | 6. Somewhat important if the wine region or producer is unfamiliar | 33 (22%)
| | 5. Important only if the chart is narrowly specific | 25 (16%)
| | 4. Not important at all | 15 (10%)
| | 0. What's a vintage chart? | 2 (1%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 10 (6%)
|
Here are the fill-in votes:
- Can be useful, but only in general for a specific region. (1 votes)
- I prefer the recommendation of a local, knowledgeable wine shop merchant. (1 votes)
- if all other factors are the same except for the vintage then it is important (1 votes)
- Important, but knowledge is also, as is experience,some poor years had stellar wine also (1 votes)
- unimportant if it is a wine I have tasted, semi-useful in other cases (1 votes)
- Useful in restaurants for unfamiliar producers/regions, don't use at all for cellar purchases (1 votes)
- Usefull when purchasing for my clients, means next to nothing for my personal buying. (1 votes)
- Wine Enthusiast/wine shop (1 votes)
- Worth general consideration but worth very little when considering an individual wine (1 votes)
- You never have one handy when you could use it (1 votes)
Total Votes: 447 Best 'undiscovered' wine region?
| Bulgaria | 6 (1%)
| | Romania | 9 (2%)
| | Czech-Slovak republics | 4 (0%)
| | Moldova | 5 (1%)
| | Former Yugoslavian republics | 7 (1%)
| | Former Soviet Georgia | 7 (1%)
| | Russia | 1 (0%)
| | Greece | 30 (6%)
| | Switzerland | 15 (3%)
| | Hungary | 24 (5%)
| | North Africa | 4 (0%)
| | Sardinia | 16 (3%)
| | Sicily | 33 (7%)
| | Eastern Mediterranean | 12 (2%)
| | Argentina | 75 (16%)
| | Uruguay | 8 (1%)
| | Southern California and Baja | 11 (2%)
| | Sierra Foothills | 30 (6%)
| | Eastern US | 34 (7%)
| | Texas/Southwest | 10 (2%)
| | Canada | 34 (7%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 72 (16%)
|
Here are the fill-in votes:
- Alsace, France (1 votes)
- Anderson Valley (1 votes)
- Austria (2 votes)
- Austria-Gruner Vetliner (1 votes)
- Bandol (1 votes)
- California Central Coast (1 votes)
- Campania (2 votes)
- Chile (2 votes)
- Collioure (1 votes)
- Corsica (1 votes)
- crete (1 votes)
- Croatia (1 votes)
- Croatia - Dalmatia (1 votes)
- Dundee, OR USA (1 votes)
- England (1 votes)
- Franciacorta region of Brecscia, Italy (1 votes)
- fronton (france) (1 votes)
- Hungary-rediscovery (1 votes)
- Iceland (1 votes)
- Israel (2 votes)
- jura (1 votes)
- Lodi District of California (1 votes)
- Long Island (2 votes)
- Maremma (Tuscany) (1 votes)
- Michigan (2 votes)
- Minnesota (1 votes)
- Missouri Wine Country (1 votes)
- Mittelrhein (1 votes)
- New York (1 votes)
- None of the Above (2 votes)
- Northern Florida (1 votes)
- Not familiar with any of these regions (1 votes)
- Okanagan Valley, Canada (1 votes)
- Orange NSW Australia (1 votes)
- Oregon (2 votes)
- palm4ela in portugal; bierzo in spain (1 votes)
- paso robles (2 votes)
- Paso Robles (Central Coast California) (1 votes)
- Paso Robles area (1 votes)
- Paso Robles, California (1 votes)
- Pfalz (Germany) (1 votes)
- Porto - but for the table wines, not port. (1 votes)
- Portugal (1 votes)
- Portugal (table wines, not Porto) (1 votes)
- Provence (1 votes)
- Rio Negro region of Argentina (1 votes)
- saki (1 votes)
- Savoie (1 votes)
- Savoie, Jura, Vins de Moselle, Cotes de Toul, Cotes de Forez, Ciro, lots of Spanish appellations, (1 votes)
- somontano (1 votes)
- south africa (1 votes)
- Spain (Bullas, Yecla, Jumilla, La Mancha, Canary Islands, Mallorca, etc., etc.) (1 votes)
- Tasmania (1 votes)
- Tri City Area, Washington (1 votes)
- Turkey (1 votes)
- Virginia (2 votes)
- Virginia (dark horse) (1 votes)
- Walla Walla (1 votes)
- Walla Walla Washington (1 votes)
- Western Colorado (1 votes)
- Willamette Valley, Or (1 votes)
- Yakima, WA (1 votes)
Total Votes: 344 Favorite Gewürztraminer?
| Alsace | 140 (40%)
| | Germany | 49 (14%)
| | Austria | 10 (2%)
| | Italy | 5 (1%)
| | California | 30 (8%)
| | US Pacific Northwest | 18 (5%)
| | Eastern US | 8 (2%)
| | Canada | 10 (2%)
| | Australia | 3 (0%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 22 (6%)
| | There IS no second choice | 49 (14%)
|
Here are the fill-in votes:
- Alsace, again! (1 votes)
- Anderson Valley, CA (1 votes)
- Canada-Okanagan (1 votes)
- chile (3 votes)
- I didn't know real gewurtz came from more than one place! (1 votes)
- Long Island, NY (1 votes)
- Navarro (1 votes)
- Navarro - Anderson Valley (1 votes)
- New York State (1 votes)
- new zealand (2 votes)
- New Zealand(Wiapara) (1 votes)
- NZ (1 votes)
- Oregon, Rogue Valley (1 votes)
- Pacific NW - Oregon (1 votes)
- South Africa (2 votes)
- Spain/Somontano (1 votes)
- Stellenbosch, Cape Winelands (1 votes)
- There is no such thing as a good Gewurtz! (1 votes)
Total Votes: 426 Favorite alcoholic drink other than wine?
| Gin | 37 (8%)
| | Vodka | 41 (9%)
| | Tequila | 17 (3%)
| | Rum | 12 (2%)
| | Bourbon | 16 (3%)
| | Scotch | 55 (12%)
| | Irish Whiskey | 8 (1%)
| | Rye Whiskey | 1 (0%)
| | Canadian Whisky | 4 (0%)
| | American Blended Whiskey | 1 (0%)
| | Cognac/Armagnac/Brandy | 17 (3%)
| | Liqueurs | 9 (2%)
| | Beer | 148 (34%)
| | Cider | 9 (2%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 41 (9%)
| | I don't care for any alternative to wine | 10 (2%)
|
Here are the fill-in votes:
- Amaretto (1 votes)
- B & B - Rocks (I dfferentiate this from drinking Cognac/Brandy from a snifter) (1 votes)
- Belgian Raspberry Lambic (1 votes)
- Bloody Mary (1 votes)
- Campari (3 votes)
- Dark Beer (1 votes)
- dutch genever (1 votes)
- Gin and Tonic (1 votes)
- Gin in the summer, Scotch in the winter, Cognac any time. (1 votes)
- Grappa (1 votes)
- Guinness (1 votes)
- iced tea (1 votes)
- Irish Ale; specifically, Caffrey's Irish Ale. Terrific!! (1 votes)
- Jack Daniel's (Tennessee Sour Mash) (1 votes)
- MALT WHISKEY (1 votes)
- Margarita (1 votes)
- Margarritta or Martinni (1 votes)
- Marguarita (1 votes)
- martini (1 votes)
- mead (1 votes)
- micro beer (1 votes)
- Micro-brewed ales; no macros and no lagars (1 votes)
- Micro-Brewery Ale (1 votes)
- mixed drinks like margaritas or gin and tonic (1 votes)
- Mount Gay Eclipse Rum (1 votes)
- muted (stopped) grape products like Pineau des Charentes (1 votes)
- Real British bitter ale (belongs in its own category) (1 votes)
- Scotch Single Malt (1 votes)
- Single Malt Scotch (5 votes)
- Single malt scotch whisky. (1 votes)
- Single-malt Scotch (1 votes)
- Sour Mash (1 votes)
- Southern Comfort (1 votes)
- whiskey sour (1 votes)
- WineCooler or ZIMA (1 votes)
Total Votes: 228 Are you a "terroirist"?
| Yes | 185 (81%)
| | No | 23 (10%)
| | I don't know | 6 (2%)
| | I don't care | 14 (6%)
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Total Votes: 501 Favorite white wine for warm weather?
| Albariño | 8 (1%)
| | Champagne/sparkling wine | 26 (5%)
| | Chardonnay | 33 (6%)
| | Chenin Blanc | 17 (3%)
| | Gewürztraminer | 28 (5%)
| | Grüner Veltliner | 10 (1%)
| | Moscato d'Asti/crackling wine | 15 (2%)
| | Muscadet | 7 (1%)
| | Pinot Blanc | 9 (1%)
| | Pinot Gris/Grigio | 44 (8%)
| | Riesling | 102 (20%)
| | Sauvignon Blanc | 99 (19%)
| | Semillon | 7 (1%)
| | Viognier | 19 (3%)
| | Other white (fill-in) | 38 (7%)
| | Rosé (it's almost white!) | 35 (6%)
| | I don't like white wine | 4 (0%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- Alvarinho (Vinho Verde - Portugal) (1 votes)
- APREMONT (1 votes)
- Arbois (1 votes)
- arneis, vermentino di sardegna (1 votes)
- Beaujolais (1 votes)
- Chablis,Blanc Du Bois (1 votes)
- Cruchen Blanc ("Riesling" in South Africa) (1 votes)
- Falanghina (Falerno), Greco di Tufo (1 votes)
- Fume Blanc (2 votes)
- Garganega (1 votes)
- Gin & Tonic (1 votes)
- Maculan Torcolato 1996 (1 votes)
- Mosel white Riesling (1 votes)
- Pouilly-Fuisse (3 votes)
- R.H.Phillips EXP VIOGNIER TRY THIS!!! (1 votes)
- Sancerre (2 votes)
- Soave (from Anselmi or Pieropan or Inama) (1 votes)
- spanish- vino verde (1 votes)
- Torrontes (1 votes)
- verdejo (Blanco Nieva D.O. Rueda) (1 votes)
- Verdejo 100%, D.O. Rueda Superior (1 votes)
- vinho verde (4 votes)
- Vinho Verde (Portugal) (1 votes)
- Vinho Verde(portugal) (1 votes)
- Vladeorras wine from the godello grape (1 votes)
- vouvray (3 votes)
- Wagner's Vignoles (a NYS Wine formerly Ravat Blanc) (1 votes)
- White Zinfandel (1 votes)
- with watermelon and a block of parmesean (1 votes)
Total Votes: 519 Fine wine with a screw cap?
| Screw cap | 202 (38%)
| | Cork | 317 (61%)
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Total Votes: 1621 California First Growths?
| Beaulieu | 83 (5%)
| | Beringer | 115 (7%)
| | Caymus | 102 (6%)
| | Chateau Montelena | 162 (9%)
| | Diamond Creek | 45 (2%)
| | Dominus | 79 (4%)
| | Duckhorn | 19 (1%)
| | Dunn | 52 (3%)
| | Forman | 8 (0%)
| | Harlan | 64 (3%)
| | Heitz | 78 (4%)
| | Joseph Phelps | 107 (6%)
| | Laurel Glen | 30 (1%)
| | Mondavi | 117 (7%)
| | Opus I | 103 (6%)
| | Ridge | 169 (10%)
| | Shafer | 59 (3%)
| | Silver Oak | 51 (3%)
| | Spottswoode | 24 (1%)
| | Stag's Leap | 87 (5%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 67 (4%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- Abreu, Araujo (1 votes)
- Alexander Hills (1 votes)
- Anderson's Conn Valley (1 votes)
- Araujo (2 votes)
- Araujo, Bryant (1 votes)
- Bell (1 votes)
- Bryant (1 votes)
- Bryant Family, Araujo, Peter Michael, Karl Lawrence, Sine Qua Non (1 votes)
- Bryant, Dalle Valle, Pahlmeyer (1 votes)
- Buena-vista (1 votes)
- Cain (1 votes)
- Cakebread (1 votes)
- Calera (1 votes)
- Calera, Williams-Seylem (1 votes)
- cardinale (1 votes)
- Charles Krug (1 votes)
- Chateau St. Jean (2 votes)
- Clos Du Bois (1 votes)
- Dalle Valle (3 votes)
- Dehlinger (1 votes)
- Grace Family Vineyards (1 votes)
- Grgich Hills and Chalone (1 votes)
- Guenoc (1 votes)
- Gundlach Bundschu (1 votes)
- Inglenook (1 votes)
- Jordan (1 votes)
- Kalin (1 votes)
- Matanzas Creek (2 votes)
- Mt. Eden, A.Rafinelli (1 votes)
- Niebaum-Copolla (1 votes)
- Niebaum-Coppola ('Rubicon') (1 votes)
- None (4 votes)
- Pahlmeyer (1 votes)
- Pahlmeyer / Philip Togni / (1 votes)
- Paoletti (1 votes)
- peter michael (2 votes)
- Pride (1 votes)
- Quintessa (1 votes)
- reverie was daydreams (1 votes)
- Ritchie Creek,Ahlgren (1 votes)
- Saintsbury (1 votes)
- Sanford (1 votes)
- Screaming Eagle (3 votes)
- Screaming Eagle and Colgin (1 votes)
- Screaming Eagle, Dalla Valle (1 votes)
- Screaming Eagle, Maya, Bryant, Colgin (1 votes)
- screaming eagle, pahlmeyer, bryant (1 votes)
- Simi Reserve (1 votes)
- Sterling (1 votes)
- This poll is without value or merit - like a Zagat Survey (1 votes)
- Togni (3 votes)
- Togni, La Jota (1 votes)
- tom eddy (1 votes)
- Williams-Seylem (1 votes)
Total Votes: 258 Primary activity in the wine business?
| Vine grower | 2 (0%)
| | Wine maker | 5 (1%)
| | Winery/vineyard employee | 5 (1%)
| | Tasting room staff | 4 (1%)
| | Wine importer | 9 (3%)
| | Wine distributor | 14 (5%)
| | Retail wine merchant | 27 (10%)
| | Retail wine shop staff | 13 (5%)
| | Wine accessories | 2 (0%)
| | Wine writer/journalist | 6 (2%)
| | Wine educator | 8 (3%)
| | Wine marketing/PR/lobbying | 12 (4%)
| | Wine consumer, no business interests | 118 (45%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 33 (12%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- Assistant to Andrea Immer, top female sommelier in USA (1 votes)
- Butler (1 votes)
- consultant (1 votes)
- Consumer (1 votes)
- created www.thewinetool.com (1 votes)
- director of wine program for private gentleman's club (1 votes)
- Home Wine Maker - amateur (1 votes)
- I make craft items from wine bottles and corks (1 votes)
- I'm a wine educator, but not paid for it! (1 votes)
- Internet sales (1 votes)
- Make my own wine at home - up to 200 gal. per year (1 votes)
- Multi-State, Winery Representitive (1 votes)
- Restaurant Owner and Local Wine Educator (1 votes)
- restaurant owner, wine buyer...maybe that is retail. (1 votes)
- Retail Wine Consultant (1 votes)
- Sales of California Wine Country Cruises (1 votes)
- Sales support for a wine internet company (1 votes)
- server trainer @ an Italian restaurant that focuses on wine. (1 votes)
- sommelier (1 votes)
- vigneron (1 votes)
- Vintage Wine Advertising Prints (1 votes)
- waiter in a fine dining restaurant (1 votes)
- waitress in a four star restaurant (1 votes)
- web dsigner for wine importer/distributor (1 votes)
- Wine / Beverage Manager and Wine Personality in a Fine Dining Restaurant (1 votes)
- Wine agent in Canada (1 votes)
- Wine broker (1 votes)
- Wine consumer with business interests (1 votes)
- Wine Director for a hotel restaurant company (1 votes)
- Wine E-tailer Internet Manager (1 votes)
- Wine storage company owner (1 votes)
- Winemaker/Exporter/Wine Marketing (1 votes)
- Winer Office Manager (1 votes)
Total Votes: 180 Favorite non-alcoholic beverage?
| Sparkling water | 22 (12%)
| | Bottled water | 27 (15%)
| | Tap water | 28 (15%)
| | Hot coffee | 13 (7%)
| | Hot tea | 8 (4%)
| | Iced coffee | 6 (3%)
| | Iced tea | 29 (16%)
| | Fruit juice | 14 (7%)
| | Cola | 19 (10%)
| | Other carbonated soft drink | 4 (2%)
| | Milk | 8 (4%)
| | Nothing | 2 (1%)
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Total Votes: 282 Preserving leftover wine?
| Put cork back in, leave at room temperature | 15 (5%)
| | Put cork back in, refrigerate only whites | 22 (7%)
| | Put cork back in, refrigerate all leftovers | 54 (19%)
| | Put cork back in, freeze wine | 2 (0%)
| | Decant a portion to fill smaller bottle | 27 (9%)
| | Use marbles or other inert objects to displace air | 1 (0%)
| | Use Vacu-Vin or other vacuum systems that remove air from bottle with a hand pump | 95 (33%)
| | Use Private Preserve or other simple systems that displace air with aerosol gas | 17 (6%)
| | Use The Keeper or other aerosol-and-dispenser systems | 4 (1%)
| | Use professional Cruvinet-type dispenser | 1 (0%)
| | Dispose of leftovers unused | 1 (0%)
| | Leftover wine? What is that? | 24 (8%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 19 (6%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- Cook with it if it not consummed by the next day. (1 votes)
- decant into half bottles, re-cork and refrigerate. (1 votes)
- decant to smaller bottle, then refrigerate (red & white) (1 votes)
- Food Saver - auto. air remover (1 votes)
- Food Saver special cork & vacuum (1 votes)
- Foodsaver - Bottle attachment (1 votes)
- I refrigerate, and I wish more wineries sold wine in 1/2 bottles!!! (1 votes)
- Leftover? Cook it! Buy cheap wine in the sealed boxes.... (1 votes)
- preserve your berry fruit in it . And turn it into sorbet. (1 votes)
- Put cork back in, and put it back to Eurocave, if there is any space for it. (1 votes)
- put in refrigerator with no cork (1 votes)
- Recork, in or out of fridge, drink it the next night. (2 votes)
- Say, what the hell, I'll just drink the rest. (1 votes)
- Use aerosol AND refrigerate. For reds I bring to "room temperature" before serving (1 votes)
- Use Private Preserve, then put cork back in, refrigerate all leftovers (1 votes)
- Use Vacu-Vin and put the bottle back in the cellar (1 votes)
- Wine for Later System/ Vials with plugs that displace air when you fill the vials (1 votes)
- you should never freeze white wine, it brakes it down (1 votes)
Total Votes: 220 New first-growth of Bordeaux?
| Angelus | 1 (0%)
| | Brane-Cantenac | 1 (0%)
| | Cheval Blanc | 27 (12%)
| | Cos d'Estournel | 11 (5%)
| | Ducru-Beaucaillou | 6 (2%)
| | Figeac | 2 (0%)
| | Grand-Puy-Lacoste | 1 (0%)
| | Gruaud-Larose | 3 (1%)
| | L'Evangile | 2 (0%)
| | Le Pin | 2 (0%)
| | Léoville-Barton | 3 (1%)
| | Léoville-Las Cases | 52 (23%)
| | Léoville-Poyferré | 2 (0%)
| | Lynch Bages | 8 (3%)
| | Montrose | 2 (0%)
| | Palmer | 5 (2%)
| | Petrus | 53 (24%)
| | Pichon-Lalande | 10 (4%)
| | Pichon-Longueville | 1 (0%)
| | Talbot | 1 (0%)
| | Other Bordeaux (fill-in) | 18 (8%)
| | None | 9 (4%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- clerc milon (1 votes)
- Do away with the whole system! (1 votes)
- La Mission Haut-Brion (10 votes)
- Lafleur (2 votes)
- Meyney (1 votes)
- Olivier (1 votes)
- Phelan Segur (1 votes)
- Pontet-Canet (1 votes)
Total Votes: 874 Symptoms of a wine fanatic
| Swirls and sniffs before tasting milk | 47 (5%)
| | Takes descriptive notes of every wine consumed | 32 (3%)
| | Can't just call a wine "good" or "bad" but must explain why | 40 (4%)
| | Looks at the wine list before the menu | 142 (16%)
| | Chooses wines that cost more than the food | 48 (5%)
| | Debates decanting techniques with the sommelier | 9 (1%)
| | Subscribes to wine magazines | 47 (5%)
| | Always buys wines rated highly in wine magazines | 7 (0%)
| | Never buys wines rated highly in wine magazines | 10 (1%)
| | Buys expensive cellar unit to store wine at proper temperature | 8 (0%)
| | Realizes that the expensive cellar unit is too small | 15 (1%)
| | Buys new house to accommodate below-ground wine cellar | 31 (3%)
| | Owns more wine glasses than any other kind of glassware | 62 (7%)
| | Knows the difference between Pouilly-Fumé and Pouilly-Fuissé | 11 (1%)
| | Cares about the difference between Pouilly-Fumé and Pouilly-Fuissé | 12 (1%)
| | Can actually spell Pouilly-Fumé and Pouilly-Fuissé | 13 (1%)
| | Knows that a Bergerac is not just a man with a big nose | 9 (1%)
| | Discovers German wines | 7 (0%)
| | Understands the label of a German wine | 31 (3%)
| | Knows what 2,4,6-trichloroanisole is and talks about it often | 24 (2%)
| | Wine Atlas is the only geography book in the house | 8 (0%)
| | Keeps stack of wine magazines for bathroom reading | 27 (3%)
| | Spends more for a corkscrew than some people spend on a case of wine | 20 (2%)
| | Has local wine retailer on "speed dial" | 16 (1%)
| | Participates in online wine discussion groups daily | 35 (4%)
| | Meets strangers from wine discussion groups for dinner | 25 (2%)
| | Travels long distances to meet strangers from wine discussion groups | 23 (2%)
| | Plans a vacation around how many wineries can be visited | 69 (7%)
| | Other (fill-in) | 46 (5%)
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Here are the fill-in votes:
- All of the Above (1 votes)
- Answers this questionnaire! :-) (1 votes)
- Answers Voting Booth Questions on "Symptoms of a Wine Fanatic" (1 votes)
- Bookmarks are all favorite wine sites on the web (1 votes)
- Can actually pronounce Pouilly-Fumé and Pouilly-Fuissé (1 votes)
- Conducts Intro to Wine class hoping to start a wine tasting group (2 votes)
- Couldnot believe this!! Why Winelover page knows all my characters????Did my wife tell you?????????? (1 votes)
- Cuts out of work early to go to a tasting (1 votes)
- Describes wine more enthusiastically than member of the opposite sex (1 votes)
- Develops friendships to there are more opportunities to try different wines. (1 votes)
- Drags _all_ overseas visitors on tours of local wine regions. (1 votes)
- friends apologize before opening their 'supermarket' wine (1 votes)
- Friends who broke favorite wine glasses are no longer friends. (1 votes)
- Gets handed the wine list even in foreign parts (1 votes)
- Has Christmas photo/card with he/she surrounded by wine bottles instead of family members (1 votes)
- has more empty trophy bottles than most people have full bottles (1 votes)
- Has sudden intuitive realization that cellar size and bank account are inversely proportional. (1 votes)
- have done1,2,4,22,23,24,and 27 Whats the matter (1 votes)
- I though this applied to me and I marked all but 3. (1 votes)
- Is a member of a monthly wine group. (1 votes)
- Kids are named Chardonnay, Riesling, Merlot, Cabernet... (1 votes)
- Makes daily visits to favorite wine-related websites to see what's new. (1 votes)
- Mistakenly substituting wine name/word e.g. Nottage Hill instead of Notting Hill (1 votes)
- Near enough to all of above (1 votes)
- participates in online ballots about wine fanaticism (1 votes)
- Permanant purple tint on teeth (1 votes)
- Reads wine labels and records what they say. (2 votes)
- Realizes that he can check way more than three boxes (1 votes)
- Schedules day trips to other cities just to visit wine shops (1 votes)
- Splendid! Nearly everything of the above hits it in the eye! (1 votes)
- Takes great pleasure in calling the bluffs of wine waiters, retailers and makers. (1 votes)
- Takes photos out of wedding album to store labels (1 votes)
- Talks about wine while others eyes glaze over. (1 votes)
- The cars are now parked in the driveway because of the stacks of boxes in the garage. (1 votes)
- Thinks that letting work interfere with the wine hobby is a sure sign of a workaholic (1 votes)
- Tries to better the # of wineries visited in one day on that vacation (and succeeds, every day) (1 votes)
- understands ALL of the above questions (1 votes)
- Visits the wine cellar before kissing the wife hello in the evening (1 votes)
- Visits WLDG more often than any other web page (2 votes)
- Wear ties and underwear with wine labels on (1 votes)
- wears a tastevin (1 votes)
- wonders who isn't fanatical about wine?! (1 votes)
- Writes and perfoms songs about wine. (1 votes)
Total Votes: 194 Best local option for BYO?
| US/CANADA: Illegal and rigidly enforced - no BYO | 12 (6%)
| | US/CANADA: Illegal but occasionally practiced | 17 (8%)
| | US/CANADA: Legal only in premises not licensed to sell alcohol | 33 (17%)
| | US/CANADA: Legal, but uncommon | 15 (7%)
| | US/CANADA: Legal, but corkage rates are high | 10 (5%)
| | US/CANADA: Legal with modest corkage rates | 43 (22%)
| | US/CANADA: Legal with no corkage | 32 (16%)
| | INT'L: Illegal and rigidly enforced - no BYO | 2 (1%)
| | INT'L: Legal, but uncommon | 13 (6%)
| | INT'L: Legal, but corkage rates are high | 3 (1%)
| | INT'L: Legal with modest corkage rates | 7 (3%)
| | INT'L: Legal with no corkage | 6 (3%)
| | INT'L: BYO is the only alternative available | 1 (0%)
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Total Votes: 244 Your restaurant wine preference
| BYOB, no corkage | 21 (8%)
| | BYOB and pay corkage | 18 (7%)
| | BYOB and buy more wine from the list | 9 (3%)
| | Buy wine by the glass | 29 (11%)
| | Half-bottle or small carafe | 13 (5%)
| | Full bottle(s) near the lower end in price | 27 (11%)
| | Full bottle(s) in the middle price range | 113 (46%)
| | Full bottle(s) near the high end in price | 9 (3%)
| | Do not order wine | 5 (2%)
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No fill-in votes
Total Votes: 418 Your dream wine job
| Vine/grape grower | 44 (10%)
| | Winemaker | 65 (15%)
| | Wine critic | 35 (8%)
| | Wine journalist | 28 (6%)
| | Wine travel agent | 32 (7%)
| | Wine consultant | 28 (6%)
| | Sommelier | 17 (4%)
| | Wine auction manager/auctioneer | 2 (0%)
| | Wine importer | 26 (6%)
| | Winery sales representative | 17 (4%)
| | Wine distributor/wholesaler | | |
